Andrew Bartolini | Procurement Analyst & CPO Research Specialist

Three Must Know Stats about Electronic Payments

By Andrew Bartolini March 14, 2014Articles, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology1 Comment

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“We have no specific procurement goals.”

By Andrew Bartolini March 13, 2014Articles, General, People, Strategy

In the early days of the firm, I did a regional tour to visit different procurement organizations to get their feedback on my plans for CPO Rising and Ardent Partners.…

eInvoicing – Creating Value for Suppliers

By Andrew Bartolini March 6, 2014Articles, General, Procure-to-Pay, Technology

You are invited to participate in our annual AP Market Research, click here to take the survey. All participants get a free copy of the resulting report. In my earlier…

Cross Pollination

By Andrew Bartolini March 4, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategy

First, I'd like to invite you to join me on March 20th at 2 PM ET for a webinar where I present the findings from my annual CPO Rising report…

Driving Value through a Connected P2P Process – Part II: Hire a P2P Lead

By Andrew Bartolini February 24, 2014Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay1 Comment

We discuss the Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process frequently on CPO Rising because of its central importance to Chief Procurement Officers and procurement operations. We also see it is as a “Hot…

Welcome to the New “State” of Contingent Workforce Management, Part III: Identity Management

By Andrew Bartolini February 21, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, General, People, Process

[Publisher's note: Our upcoming CPO Rising 2014: Convergence report will be released early next month and it has many interesting findings, trends, revelations including the typical Chief Procurement Officer's newest…

What Will Take You “Swifter, Higher, Faster” in 2014?

By Andrew Bartolini February 19, 2014Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

The XXII Winter Games are still going strong in Sochi, Russia and will continue through this Sunday. I must admit that I have not watched as much as I would…

Driving Value Through a Connected P2P Process – Part 1

By Andrew Bartolini February 17, 2014Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Technology2 Comments

We discuss the Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process frequently on CPO Rising because of its central importance to Chief Procurement Officers and procurement operations. We also see it is as a “Hot…

Fail-safe

By Andrew Bartolini February 10, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategy

When things don’t go according to plans, the unprepared are often forced to just grin and bear it and hope that no one notices or that the total impact of…

Welcome to the New “State” of Contingent Workforce Management, Part I: Quality!

By Andrew Bartolini February 7, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, General, People, Process, Strategy, Technology

[Publisher's note: Welcome to the first part of a multi-article series on the State of Contingent Workforce Management, Ardent Partners' landmark new research study. In this series, report author and…