CPO Challenge: Mapping Processes to Systems
CPO Rising 2017: Tools of The Trade – Ardent Partners conducts an annual procurement-themed market research study each year and this is it. By taking the survey, you have an opportunity to help advance…
Chief Procurement Officers: Developing Procurement Mastery
CPO Rising 2017: Tools of The Trade – Ardent Partners conducts an annual procurement-themed market research study each year and this is it. By taking the survey, you have an opportunity to…
A Portrait of the CPO as a Young Man or Woman
CPO Rising 2017: Tools of The Trade - Ardent Partners conducts an annual procurement-themed market research study each year and this is it. By taking the survey, you have an opportunity to…
Is the Conflict Minerals Provision in Dodd-Frank Going Away?
As we noted in our recent 2017 Procurement: Big Trends and Predictions webinar, the current U.S. trade policies and the regulatory environment should be tracked more closely because change is…
CWM Technology Round-Up – February 23, 2017
DCR Workforce Partners with EdgeVerve on Indirect Procurement Solution Last month, DCR Workforce, a Florida-based Managed Service Provider (MSP) and Vendor Management Systems (VMS) solution developer, announced that it has partnered with…
The Criteria for Selecting Spend Analysis Technology
Publisher's Note: Today's article is a preview from our recent report, Spend Analysis: The Foundation for Procurement Excellence, sponsored by SpendHQ. Interested readers can download this report by clicking here…
The Growing Interest in Automating B2B Payments
While the accounts payable (“AP”) function has long been one of the last bastions of manual processes in an enterprise, we have started to see a small technological evolution that…
CPO News – February 16, 2017
SAIC Names Karen Wheeler Chief Human Resources Officer Northern Virginia-based Science Applications International Corporation (NYSE: SAIC) announced that Karen Wheeler, SAIC's Chief Procurement Officer of nearly four years, has been…
Understanding the Current State of AP to Improve Future Performance
It is a new year, and in the evolving world of business, where more organizations are automating their processes, it is a wonder why accounts payable (AP) departments lag behind…
How Innovative Supply Management Technologies Create Opportunity for CIOs
Editor’s Note: This article is the final installment in this series based upon Ardent Partners’ recent report, The CPO and CIO’s New Approach to Evaluating Enterprise Technology (sponsored by Coupa). Click to…