[1] Suppliers can be connected, or "enabled," using a variety of means including Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Extensible Markup Language (XML), Web forms, RFID chips, or other e-commerce tools.
As more companies move purchasing card into A/P to replace checks and other forms of payment, purchasing card supplier enablement will become key to the success of the payment conversion project.
Financial institutions and the associations provide payment technology allowing clients to process push pcard payments to the suppliers or send the suppliers a pcard remittance advice.
Carol Benson of Glenbrook Partners [2] discusses this payment change and supplier enablement in her November 1, 2007 article, eB2B at the Tipping Point?.
I found four new forces at work [at the AFP (Association for Finance Professionals) conference] that I believe are significant.