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The CPO Rising Summit Returns to Boston with Powerful Procurement Insights!
Leading Procurement Executives from Johnson & Johnson, DuPont, Rio Tinto, and More Convene to Share Experiences and Best Practices BOSTON, October 29 — Today, more than 140 Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and... Read more
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Smart Strategies to Transform Your Operation — A New Webinar from Ardent Partners
In aggregate, the procurement profession has made extraordinary advances over the last ten years. But, a deeper analysis of the market definitively shows that the Best-in-Class (or top 20% of... Read more
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Meet Shelley Stewart, Jr., CPSM and CPO Rising Hall of Famer at CPO Rising 2019!
Shelley Stewart is participating on the CPO Panel on Day One of the CPO Rising 2019 Summit. Here is a brief profile we wrote about him a few years ago... Read more
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CPO Rising 2019 Speaker Profile – David Kern, Head of Global Procurement, TripAdvisor
David Kern is an experienced professional with 20 years of proven success within procurement, real estate, capital oversight, and implementation of accounting/payment platforms. David currently serves as the Head of... Read more
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P2P Technology Round-Up — October 18, 2019
Ardent’s P2P Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of ePayables, P2P, and B2B payment solution provider news and updates from the past week. If you are an Accounts Payable, B2B Payments,... Read more
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Throwback Thursday: Procurement Influencer Series — Roy Anderson from Tradeshift
Publisher’s Note: In 2019, Ardent Partners is celebrating 10 years of delivering “Research with Results” to Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and other readers of this site, including published reports, eBooks, presentations, insights, articles and... Read more
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For CFOs, Optimizing Enterprise Spend is a Business Imperative
In the aftermath of the Global Recession, many Chief Financial Officers (“CFOs”) have made the realization that a business environment that values cash, profit margins, and risk mitigation is one... Read more
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CPO Honors 2019: And the Finalists are…
The Fourth Annual CPO Honors Gala Dinner will be held at The Harvard Club in Boston on October 29th at 6:15 pm with a celebratory Happy Hour starting at the... Read more
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Supplier Discovery and Some Housekeeping
dis·cov·er \dis-kə-vər\ verb: (1): to make known or visible; (2): to obtain sight or knowledge of for Supplier Discovery In the relatively new “world” that we call supply management, supplier discovery is one of the... Read more
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CPO Rising 2019 Speaker Profile – Nisreen Bagasra, Chief Procurement Officer, Veolia North America
Nisreen Bagasra is the Chief Procurement Officer for Veolia North America (VNA) and leads its procurement organization to maximize value and mitigate risk across the company’s supply base, for both... Read more