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Throwback Thursday: Procurement Fraud Prevention – The Expert (Part 2)
Editor’s Note: In the spirit of “Throwback Thursday,” we’re bringing our audience this gem from all the way back to late summer 2010, Ardent’s first summer. It’s been some time... Read more
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Throwback Thursday: Procurement Fraud Prevention – The Expert (Part 1)
Editor’s Note: In the spirit of “Throwback Thursday,” we’re bringing our audience this gem from all the way back to late summer 2010, Ardent’s first summer. It’s been some time... Read more
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Business Networks Extend Their Reach into Direct Materials
In an age of global commerce, connectivity between buyers and suppliers that is enabled by technology will be a critical piece of the global business networks and supply chains that... Read more
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How New or Improved Technologies Can Transform Procurement – Supplier Management
As Chief Procurement Officers (“CPOs”) and procurement practitioners move into 2016, they have the need and the capability for advanced technology solutions to automate and link the source-to-settle process – upstream, strategic... Read more
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How to Transform Procurement in Five Steps – Step Five: External Stakeholder Engagement
Editor’s Note: Procurement transformation will be a big topic at Ardent Partners’ CPO Rising 2016 executive symposium this spring. Join us in Boston on March 29-30 for what is shaping up to... Read more
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Procurement Should Become a Hub for Supplier Innovation
Join us on March 29 & 30, 2016 at the Harvard Club of Boston for CPO Rising 2016: The Agility Agenda. This executive summit will bring together business executives and supply... Read more
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Technology Round-Up – December 10, 2015
SciQuest Updates Spend Automation Suite with Strategic Sourcing Capabilities Last week, North Carolina-based SciQuest (Nasdaq: SQI), which offers automated spend management solutions for procurement practitioners, announced that it has updated its spend automation suite... Read more
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Technology Round-Up – November 19, 2015
Intrigo Announces Collaboration with Ariba on Direct Materials Procurement Intrigo Systems, a California-based integrated business planning (IBP) and managed service provider (MSP) for SAP solutions, announced that it is partnering... Read more
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What the Defense Contract Management Agency can Teach us about Better Buying
In an article from Federal News Radio, it was reported that the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) is seeking to improve and standardize decision making among its geographically dispersed network of buyers,... Read more
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Upcoming Webinar: The State of Strategic Sourcing 2015 – Supplier-Centric Sourcing
Join Ardent Partners and LexisNexis on Thursday, October 22 at 2:00 PM EST for this free webinar on the State of Strategic Sourcing 2015 – Supplier-Centric Sourcing, which draws on the responses... Read more