Andrew Bartolini | Procurement Analyst & CPO Research Specialist

Three Game-Changing Innovations to Move Your AP Department Forward

By Andrew Bartolini April 3, 2017Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

Like the designated hitter and the use of sabermetrics in baseball, there are a number of game-changing innovations available to the modern accounts payable (AP) professional that can help get…

The Cognitive Procurement “Ecosystem”

By Andrew Bartolini March 31, 2017Articles, Process, Solution Providers, Technology

Editor's Note: Today's article is a preview of an Ardent Partners research report, Cognitive Procurement: The Age of Intelligence, sponsored by IBM Watson Commerce. Interested readers can download this exciting…

Ivalua Now 2017

By Andrew Bartolini March 30, 2017Articles, Events, General, Solution Providers, Technology

Ivalua held its second annual Ivalua Now customer conference last week in New York City. Ivalua was founded in 2000 and offers an end-to-end suite of spend management solutions. The…

The ROI of a Best-in-Class Procurement Department – Report Preview!

By Andrew Bartolini March 28, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Ardent Partners, in conjunction with Zycus, is pleased to present this research report, The ROI of a Best-in-Class Procurement Department. Interested readers can access the report with our compliments by…

The Top Three Priorities for AP Departments in the Year Ahead

By Andrew Bartolini March 27, 2017Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

The accounts payable (AP) function as a whole is in the midst of an automation transformation. And slowly but surely, the perception of AP is slowly changing as well. It is…

SAP Ariba Live: Making Supply Risk Management Awesome

By Andrew Bartolini March 24, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Earlier this week, Andrew Bartolini and I attended the annual SAP Ariba LIVE conference at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas. The event is one of the industry’s largest (~3200 estimated attendees) and…

Technology Round-up – March 23, 2017 (SAP Ariba Live Edition)

By Andrew Bartolini March 23, 2017Articles, Events, General, Solution Providers, Technology

Earlier this week, Matt York and I attended the annual SAP Ariba LIVE conference at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas. The event is one of the industry’s largest (~3200 estimated…

Three Innovative Technologies Driving Procurement Agility – Part Two

By Andrew Bartolini March 21, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Lists, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology3 Comments

It has been stated often in Ardent Partners research and webinars that “it is an exciting time to work in procurement.” And this is no less true today than it…

The Ardent Partners ePayables Framework: An Overview

By Andrew Bartolini March 20, 2017Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

The analyst team at Ardent Partners spends a lot of time discussing what we call the ePayables Framework. We discuss it at length in our market research studies. But maybe…

How to Minimize Procurement Fraud

By Andrew Bartolini March 17, 2017Articles, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

[Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a guest publication from Thierry Jaffry, Vice President of Operations at Simetryk, a Montreal-based provider of supplier information management solutions. Ardent Partners is happy to review and feature…