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BuyerQuest: Going Beyond Punch-Out
The Ardent Partners’ analyst team recently received a briefing and product demonstration from representatives from BuyerQuest, a Procure-to-Pay (P2P) solutions provider. Doug Blossey, senior vice president of corporate strategy, and Kyle Muskoff, vice... Read more
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The Significance of Contract Management in Plugging Procurement’s Savings Leakage
Ardent Partners research consistently illustrates the value and necessity of leveraging effective people, processes, and technologies to drive the modern procurement organization. One such process, Contract Management, resides at the... Read more
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The Dawn of a New Age — the Age of Intelligence (New CPO Rising Report is Out!)
Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners is pleased to present the thirteenth installment of our annual CPO Rising benchmark procurement research study, CPO Rising 2018: The Age of Intelligence, and make it available for... Read more
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The State of ePayables 2018: AP’s Transformational Journey
Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a preview of Ardent Partners’ latest accounts payable (AP) research report, “The State of ePayables 2018: The Future of AP is Now”, which is available for download here.... Read more
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The State of ePayables 2018: It’s Time to Say Goodbye to Paper Checks
Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published our annual AP-themed report, The State of ePayables 2018: The Future of AP is Now. Today’s article is part of an on-going series focused on the... Read more
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Technology Round-Up – June 28, 2018
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing, procurement,... Read more
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Spend Data: The “Black Gold” That Sits Within Every Enterprise
In today’s fast-paced and constantly evolving business world, information is king. Many corporate strategies, whether created in the executive boardroom or by the professionals running day-to-day operations, are often fueled... Read more
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Contract Management Solutions: Innovation Drives Collaboration in Procurement
Technology innovation has brought new life to old processes and tools that are familiar to many procurement departments, like contract management. Manual, paper-based processes are out, while automated, digitized systems... Read more
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A New Era of Work Optimization: A Foundation for the Future of Work
Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a small slice of the new Future of Work Compendium research study. The new report was developed to serve as a “guidebook” for those organizations... Read more
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Technology Round-Up – June 21, 2018
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing, procurement,... Read more