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Master Vendor File Maintenance, Audit & Control Best Practices
Organizations and their AP managers increasingly recognize the need for robust vendor file management. Institute of Management and Administration publication provides insights into some of the obstacles facing managers and offers ways to achieve master file success. Valuable feedback from industry experts, including TakeCharge's own, are included. (Complete package from IOMA is available here.)

EII - A Pragmatic Approach: Spend Management Case Study
Enterprise Information Integration (EII) can be applied to a wide array of problems. Primarily, EII offers organizations the ability to gain control over their disparate data and think about new ways to organize and view that data. Learn how ultimately, EII enables spend managment solutions that digest and understanding information enabling complete procure-to-pay. (Download your copy to learn more.)

Maximizing Purchasing Card Program Control through Process and Compliance
Merely by capitalizing on existing technology and allowing program controls through processes and compliance, purchasing card programs are taken to the next level while increasing employee's productivity and satisfaction, ensuring financial transparency, and preventing unintentional and intentional misuse. (Download your copy to learn more.)

eInvoicing Report
For too many organizations, accounts payable remains mired in antiquated, manual processes and sits beneath mountains of paper-based transactions. With profitability, compliance, and risk management high on executive agendas, the importance of invoice reconciliation and payment is riseing. Early adopters of modern solutions are experiencing relevant success. (Download your copy to learn more.)

P-card Benchmark Report
Purchasing card program challenges, priorities, strategies, and technologies were surveyed to provide program management parameters and best practices. Issues of program control to enable new business and cost reductions are presented along with additional ways to drive value from purchasing card programs. (Download your copy to learn more.)

Improve Your p-card Program
Revisiting the core charter and scope of purchasing card (p-card) programs with a fresh approach can transform the program in ways that significantly boost its usage in terms of expenditures and transaction volumes, and increase the inherent value of the program to related purchasing, payable, and treasury initiatives. (Download your copy to learn more.)

Best Practice in Spending Analysis
Sourcing strategy, category expertise, negotiation methodology, and procurement execution are all critical components of a highly effective supply management initiative. However, the success of any supply management program is largely dependent upon the ability to access, organize, and analyze spend data. Spend data is also vital for other business strategies, such as budgeting and planning, inventory management, and product development. (Download your copy to learn more.)

TakeCharge Spend Management Webinar
Jeff Pikulik, Vice President, Aberdeen Group and Debbie Hamel CEO and President of TakeCharge Technologies present a web seminar to introduce "Gaining Control of Organizational Spend: P-Cards, Procure-to-Pay and ProCharge". (Click here to watch the seminar.)


Professional Member Institutions:

ASBO Maryland & DC Association of School Business Officials

GFOA Government Finance Officers Association

NIGP National Institute of Government Purchasing

NAEB National Association of Education Buyers

NAPP National Association of Purchasing and Payables

ASBO International: Association of School Business Officials

Maryland & DC Association of School Business Officials ASBO

MSBO: Michigan Association of School Business Officials

CASBO California Association of School Business Officials

NACHA The Electronics Payments Association

ISM Institute for Supply Chain Management

NACUBO National Association of College and University Business Officers

IOMA Business Intelligence at work

ICBA/FSTC Independent Community Bankers of America

IAPP International Accounts Payables Professionals

AFP Association for Financial Professionals