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“It’s a project with an infinite internal rate of return,” says Sanjay Singh, Hershey’s VP of Internal Audit. “How many dollars of chocolate would we have to sell to equal a million in recoveries?” He knew that a recovery audit was a good idea from his experience and the benchmarking he does with industry peers. He, Jay Cheedella, VP Global Business Services, and Jonathan Laubenstine, Senior Director of Internal Audit, have been overseeing the project that’s already added ov...

Joni Geurts, Director, Accounts Payable & Fraud at JetBlue Airways, tells her story of joining the AP department and addressing the biggest issue for her team: limited visibility into SAP.She couldn’t get the information she needed about suppliers, identify duplicate payments or flag suspicious supplier payments as potentially fraudulent. Attend this webinar to hear how she addressed these issues with complementary apexanalytix solutions to fill SAP gaps. Additionally, she will discuss th...

A frequent question that Chuck Stefanosky, Supplier Diversity Director at Independence Blue Cross, receives is “How do I set my company’s supplier diversity goals?” Chuck’s answer every time: match the diversity of your workforce and suppliers with the community you serve.This strategy has helped guide Independence Blue Cross’ award-winning DEI program for 35 years and helped it grow its annual spend with diverse suppliers to 26%. With the program reporting directly to procurement, they ...

Dig into the brand new 2022 findings from the annual, global, AP Metrics that Matter Report with report author Bob Cohen of Ardent Partners, P2P senior executive Kevin Jacobik of Kimberly-Clark and market and product strategy leader Danny Thompson of apexanalytix.AP has a fresh opportunity to rewrite the script on best practices as we slowly turn the corner from massive business, economic and social system disruption. Kevin knows a thing or two about AP best practices since he runs one of the...

Jose Sorondo joined lululemon as Director, Global Finance Shared Services in 2018 and has helped the company by leading finance shared services during its rocket ship growth.It takes a lot of suppliers to run a fast-paced apparel company. In AP, once in a while, one of these suppliers would call to say: “There has been an error in the payment received.” During massive growth, duplicate payments happen. Having suppliers point this out is amazing. But how many didn’t call the AP desk? And, on a...

Call Nigel Coffey a change agent, or call him a serial innovator. Everywhere Nigel takes on a new leadership challenge, he executes a program that adds tangible bottom-line value to his new organization. Starting with industry benchmarking, following with an audit of payments to suppliers to identify root cause issues and control weaknesses, and progressing through a systematic program of automation, Nigel has succeeded time and time again in moving each company to world-class procure-to-pay ...