Redefining Source-to-Pay with Esker: Visibility, Control, and Connection
November 13, 2025
Kevin Zirkle and Esker’s John Purcell on connecting source-to-pay, treating suppliers as partners, and lifting policy compliance from 48% to over 90%.
Kevin Zirkle and Esker’s John Purcell on connecting source-to-pay, treating suppliers as partners, and lifting policy compliance from 48% to over 90%.
Kevin Zirkle and Raindrop COO Ward Karson on how AI is changing strategic sourcing, from bid normalization to pre-award intelligence, and why sourcing is a margin lever for CFOs.
Kevin Zirkle and Raindrop COO Ward Karson on why supplier management is now a CFO priority, how AI keeps supplier risk current, and how one client cut supplier setup time by 75%.
Kevin Zirkle and Esker’s Aaron LeHew on how AR automation and AI help teams collect smarter, with one client cutting past due by 34% in 60 days.
Kevin Zirkle and Raindrop COO Ward Karson on contract lifecycle management: why scattered contracts are a CFO problem, how trainable AI earns legal’s trust, and why CLM is for smart companies of every size.
Ravit Gutman and Kevin Zirkle on finance moving from scorekeeper to strategist, aligning AP and IT, and why AI cannot work without people.
Kevin Zirkle and Esker’s Nick Carpenter on the cost of manual order entry and how intelligent order management turns chaos into confidence.
Kevin Zirkle and Raindrop COO Ward Karson kick off our Raindrop series: modular spend management, why CFOs buy outcomes not features, and how a best-fit stack avoids rip and replace.
Kevin Zirkle and Esker’s Kyle Young kick off our Esker partner series with a look at people-centered automation across order-to-cash and source-to-pay.
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