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Research Preview: Collaborative Contract Management: Procurement’s Role in Enhancing Compliance and Mitigating Risk
Ardent Partners recently published a new research report, “Collaborative Contract Management: Procurement’s Role in Enhancing Compliance and Mitigating Risk.” It’s an exciting and refreshing look at how Chief Procurement Officers... Read more
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Introducing Ardent Partners’ Collaborative Contract Management Report
Today’s article is the first in a series of articles centered on our new Collaborative Contract Management report, sponsored by Iasta, and available for download here [Publisher’s note: The links in this article... Read more
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Technology Round-Up – February 24, 2015 – Part III
Editor’s Note: Welcome to February’s edition of our Technology Round-Up. Over the past month, we’ve tracked so many exciting developments within the supply management solution provider market that we decided... Read more
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Technology Round-Up – February 17, 2015 – Part I
Editor’s Note: Welcome to February’s edition of our Technology Round-Up. Over the past month, we’ve tracked so many exciting developments within the supply management solution provider market that we decided... Read more
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Sailing Downstream: Why Source-to-Settle Defines Procurement Transformation in 2015 (Webinar)
For sure, enterprises as a whole and procurement teams in particular can log significant financial and operational improvements through implementing basic strategic sourcing processes, such as spend analysis, sourcing/ eSourcing,... Read more
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Collaborative Contract Management: Procurement’s Role in Enhancing Compliance and Mitigating Risk (Webinar)
In 2015, collaboration is the name of the game in procurement and frequently entails working with key internal stakeholders (like line-of-business managers and legal departments) or preferred suppliers to drive... Read more
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Deem – Moving Beyond Travel and Expense Management
For procurement practitioners, managing spend across multiple categories and aligning them to the larger source-to-settle process is both a challenge and a goal. Manual, disparate processes require more time and... Read more
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Supplier Performance Management: The Fourth Strategic Sourcing Pillar
Over the past month, Ardent Partners has featured analysis from The State of Strategic Sourcing 2014: Connecting the Dots, which is now out and available. Interested readers can find the report here and here. This research... Read more
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Contract Management: The Third Strategic Sourcing Pillar
Over the past couple of weeks, Ardent Partners has been featuring analysis from The State of Strategic Sourcing 2014: Connecting the Dots, which is now out and available. Interested readers can find... Read more
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Technology Round-Up – December 16, 2014
SAP Completes Concur Acquisition for $8.3 Billion On December 4, global software provider SAP AG (NYSE Ticker – SAP) announced that it had completed its $8.3 billion acquisition (or $129 per... Read more