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Ivalua NOW 2022: We Are Stronger Together
Leading supply management suite provider, Ivalua‘s annual user conference Ivalua Now returned as an in-person (but also virtual) conference in Washington, D.C. last week and it was another stellar showing... Read more
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Ardent Announces New Roundtable Event for Procurement Execs. (6/14)
Ardent Partners And The Future Of Work Exchange Invite Procurement Executives To Attend This Inaugural Future Of Work Event Ardent Partners’ 2022 research has shown that: 94% of all businesses... Read more
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The “Traditional” Impact of Contract Solutions
The Source-to-Pay process can be divided into two sub-process areas, what happens before and after a supplier contract is executed. Procurement departments can use contract management solutions to provide significant... Read more
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The State of ePayables 2022 Survey is Now Open
The 2022 State of ePayables Take the New Survey! Now more than ever, the AP function is proving just how crucial it is to maintaining business continuity and we would... Read more
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Procurement’s Key Value Drivers in the Financial Services Industry
With heightened levels of regulation, competition, and risk, procurement departments in the financial services sector, by and large, are more heavily scrutinized and their performance, and that of their suppliers... Read more
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The “Innovative” Impact of Contract Solutions – Part 2
Over the last few years, the contract management (or contract lifecycle management) solution space has seen some exciting new innovations, after lagging behind other areas in the supply management space... Read more
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The “Innovative” Impact of Contract Solutions – Part 1
Over the last few years, the contract management (or contract lifecycle management) solution space has seen some exciting new innovations, after lagging behind other areas in the supply management space... Read more
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The Intersection of Data and Sourcing
The Intersection of Data and Sourcing Prior to my time as an analyst, I was a strategic sourcing consultant, or more specifically, an eSourcing consultant, since I always used an... Read more
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Use Cases for Data and Intelligent Procurement
Ardent Partners’ 17th annual State of Procurement report — CPO Rising 2022: The Data Revolution — is coming soon and I want to thank the 350+ procurement leaders who’ve taken... Read more
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Procurement Experts on CPO Rising (Deploying Technology During a Pandemic)
On January 4, 2010, Ardent Partners launched CPO Rising as a new resource to procurement leaders around the world. The site tagline then (and now) was (and is) straight and to the... Read more