Andrew Bartolini | Procurement Analyst & CPO Research Specialist

Procurement Rising Podcast – Tom Cassidy, Bayada

By Andrew Bartolini October 4, 2021Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Podcast, Procurement Rising

Today, Episode 203 of the Procurement Rising Podcast. In this podcast series, I interview Chief Procurement Officers and Best-in-Class procurement leaders as well as technology and business experts working in procurement and supply…

Throwback Thursday: The Visibility Factor – Another Best-in-Class Advantage (for Sourcing)

By Andrew Bartolini September 30, 2021Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Strategic Sourcing

Today, we’ll deep-dive into the notion of visibility, and the multiple angles of visibility in which Best-in-Class organizations (those top-performing organizations from Ardent’s upcoming “State of Strategic Sourcing” research report)…

The Path to Spend Enlightenment

By Andrew Bartolini September 24, 2021Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Strategic Sourcing

The path to true “spend enlightenment” is not merely paved with standard spend analysis. In fact, those organizations seeking to adopt next-generation spend analysis strategies must adapt to a changing…

Procurement Rising Podcast – Thomas Udesen of Bayer

By Andrew Bartolini September 20, 2021Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Podcast, Procurement Rising

Today, Episode 202 of the Procurement Rising Podcast. In this podcast series, I interview Chief Procurement Officers and Best-in-Class procurement leaders as well as technology and business experts working in procurement and supply…

The Procurement Philosophy of CPO Bill Cooper

By Andrew Bartolini September 13, 2021Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People

Last week on the Procurement Rising Podcast (click to listen), I had the pleasure of speaking with Bill Cooper, the recently retired and former Chief Procurement Officer of the entire…

Best-in-Class Accounts Payable Performance

By Andrew Bartolini September 10, 2021Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay

For the last twelve years, Ardent Partners has leveraged a unique framework to highlight the performance of top-tier or Best-in- Class organizations (versus all others) by analyzing a specific set…

Procurement Rising Podcast – Bill Cooper, University of California

By Andrew Bartolini September 7, 2021Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, People, Procurement Rising

Today, Episode 201 of the Procurement Rising Podcast. In this podcast series, I interview Chief Procurement Officers and Best-in-Class procurement leaders as well as technology and business experts working in procurement and…

Next-Gen Spend: Accelerating Procurement Performance with Spend Analytics

By Andrew Bartolini September 3, 2021Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Technology

There may be no greater advantage for the modern enterprise than visibility. Today’s procurement organizations are often under pressure to not only drive down costs while improving category management, but…

The Accounts Payable Benchmarks in 2021

By Andrew Bartolini September 1, 2021Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay1 Comment

The performance of the typical AP function is rooted in its ability to effectively manage the many facets of the invoice and payment processes. To effectively drive AP forward into…

The 2021 Procurement Benchmarks – Part 2

By Andrew Bartolini August 30, 2021Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General

Ardent’s analysis in this report determined Best-in-Class procurement performance by identifying the top 20% of performers in the spend under management metric. As a group, they have placed, on average,…