Esker On Air

In Esker’s first customer episode, Esker On Air host Scott Leahy chats with Esker Business Development Manager and Skytron Director of Fulfillment and Logistics Dave Sterkenburg about the ins and outs of touchless order entry. Imagine a world where orders are taken and recorded consistently, have zero touches, and are entered and out the door as soon as possible. That’s the world guest Dave Sterke...

Listen as Esker Business Development Managers Chaz Narwicz and Ashley MacHolda introduce the basics of automating key business processes with AI-driven solutions. You’ll walk away knowing: 1. The technologies driving digital transformation and how they work 2. Which back-office processes benefit from automation the most and why 3. Real-life examples of companies capitalizing on AI-driven automatio...

In the Season 3 Ep. 2 of Esker On Air, host Scott Leahy chats with returning guests Dan Reeve from Esker and Brett Orr from Corpay about current payment trends, how to reduce the risk of fraud and how the partnership between Esker and Corpay can help overcome the most common payment challenges for businesses seeking greater efficiency. Contact Information: ESKER: info@esker.com Dan Reeve: daniel.r...

In the S3 Episode 1 of Esker On Air, host Scott Leahy chats with Vikas Shah, Supply Chain Finance Executive Leader at LQS, and Dan Reeve, Director of Sales here at Esker, about current and future trends in in the supply chain sector and ways to improve working capital within procurement and receivables. Contact Information: ESKER: info@esker.com Dan Reeve: daniel.reeve@esker.com Vikas Shah: vshah@...

In the Season 2 finale of Esker On Air, host Scott Leahy chats with Esker Business Development Manager Aaron LeHew about the importance of having sufficient cash on-hand and how to improve working capital within procurement and receivables.

In the S2 Episode 8 of Esker On Air, host Scott Leahy and Esker Director of Order-to-Cash Sales Diana Eagan discuss the resolutions that AR teams should consider making for next year, and how they can prepare now to get senior leadership on board. You’ll also hear Diana share her firsthand experience with what Invoice-to-Cash leaders are doing to prepare and drive growth in the next year.

In the S2 Episode 7 of Esker On Air, host Scott Leahy and Esker Business Development Manager Geoff Ruffer discuss the benefits and functions of AP automation for end users, managers, finance and administration teams, and your organization as whole, and how AI-driven automation creates a more strategic role for AP and how your business can better capitalize on it. Contact Information: ESKER: info@e...

In the S2 Episode 56 of Esker On Air, Esker’s Director of Sales, Dan Reeve, chats with Brett Orr, Regional Vice President at Corpay (formally Comdata), to discuss the growing interest in virtual payments to suppliers, and why a company would want to completely automate their supplier payments. Contact Information: ESKER: info@esker.com Dan Reeve: daniel.reeve@esker.com Brett Orr: borr@COMDATA.COM...

In the S2 Episode 5 of Esker On Air, Esker Director of Sales and Business Development Dan Reeve chats with Joe Pleshek President and CEO of Terso Solutions about current supply chain trends and opportunities for companies in the life science medical device industry to leverage technology to optimize cashflow. Contact Information: ESKER: info@esker.com Dan Reeve: daniel.reeve@esker.com Joe Pleshek:...

In the S2 Episode 4 of Esker On Air, Esker Director of Sales and Business Development Dan Reeve chats with Global Supply Chain Consultant Christine Pfefferle about the order-to-cash (O2C) metrics that impact your supply chain performance the most. Contact Information: ESKER: info@esker.com Dan Reeve: daniel.reeve@esker.com Joe Hanousek: joe.hanousek@esker.com Christine Pfefferle: pfeffsredstone@gm...

In the S2 Episode 3 of Esker On Air, host Scott Leahy chats with CCMP-certified change management expert and Esker Product Owner of Partner Implementations Frank Cook about how to effectively manage organizational change, meaning: what change management is, why it’s vital to the success of any organizational change, and how you can better manage the human side of change to create a more efficient...

Hear how and why Sales Platoon is training veterans to be top-performing sales leaders. Contact ESKER: info@esker.com Sales Platoon: https://www.mysalesplatoon.com/

In the Season 2 premiere of Esker On Air, host Scott Leahy talks with Esker CEO and founder Jean-Michel Berard about what Esker does, how we serve our customers and what our mission and core values are. Contact ESKER: info@esker.com

The premise of running a business is pretty straightforward: exchange goods or services for payment, and hopefully return a profit. But when you zoom in on the processes at play, things start to get a lot more complicated. Between the product and payment comes a combination of transactional and higher-value activities, customer-facing opportunities and critical organizational handoffs — a complex...

In recent months, we’ve seen business priorities shift dramatically alongside the continuous changes in the global economy. But amidst the uncertainty that the pandemic has provoked for companies around the world, we can pretty much always rely on one thing staying constant: Businesses want to get paid, and the sooner the better. In Episode 9 of Esker On Air, host Scott Leahy talks with Diana Eaga...

In Episode 7 of Esker On Air, host Scott Leahy talks with Dan Reeve, Director of Sales and Business Development at Esker, and Tim Porter, Director of Strategic Account Sales at Urjanet about the need to automate the notoriously manual processing of utility invoices.

In honor of Veterans Day, we’re mixing things up this week on the podcast. In Episode 6 of Esker On Air, we take a break from our usual topics to recognize and honor on the veterans of Esker. Host Scott Leahy sits down for a conversation with four Esker staff members that have honorably served our country in the U.S. Armed Forces: Dan Reeve, Director of Sales and Business Development; Harry Zimmer...

As individual consumers, order management issues are at best a major annoyance. At worst, they’re a reason to swear off purchasing products from a particular company again in the future. But in the B2B realm, issues caused by outdated manual ordering processes can be detrimental not only to a company’s overall customer experience, but also to their profits, staff engagement and process visibility....

There’s no arguing the growing value of providing customers with an enjoyable, personalized experience. In fact, a recent Walker study found that by the end of 2020, customer experience (CX) will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator. With such emphasis and value being placed on creating a superior customer experience, businesses that prioritize CX and innovate the customer jo...

In the wake of the unprecedented economic disruption businesses have been grappling with across the globe, there’s one thing that organizations now know for certain — there’s simply no returning to “business as usual”. However, that might just be the silver lining for businesses and AP departments moving forward. With workplace flexibility and business continuity becoming a top priority, automatio...

Organizations never get a heads up before a time of unprecedented business disruption. And when the ability to collect cash is hindered, emerging from a period of disruption with a strong bottom line is nearly impossible. So, how can businesses continue to collect cash during times like these? And how can business leaders better prepare their organizations for future times of uncertainty? We’re he...

On our debut episode of Esker On Air, host Scott Leahy talks with Esker U.S. COO Steve Smith about the driving force behind what we do here at Esker — digital transformation. Esker helps businesses digitally transform their core processes by using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to automate the manual, time-consuming tasks that waste valuable time and money. Scott...