Andrew Bartolini | Procurement Analyst & CPO Research Specialist

Webinar – CPO Rising 2018: The Age of Intelligence (Register Here!)

By Andrew Bartolini April 9, 2018Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

On April 17th, join Andrew Bartolini, founder and chief research officer of Ardent Partners and David Bush, chief revenue officer of SpendHQ, for a complimentary webinar on our annual CPO…

Payables Place First Thing: Top Strategies for P2P Success

By Andrew Bartolini April 6, 2018Articles, Lists, People, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

Last week I presented on a webinar with Zycus entitled ‘Design Thinking: Top Strategies for P2P Success’. The webinar contained some excellent practical and useful information that I thought would make for…

Technology Round-Up – April 5, 2018

By Andrew Bartolini April 5, 2018Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing, procurement, or spend…

Holistic Strategies and Approaches to Optimize P2P Operations and Performance

By Andrew Bartolini April 4, 2018Articles, General, Lists, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

Leveraging technology to drive business value is an important organizational capability and most procurement departments fare poorly in this regard. Best-in-Class procurement teams have differentiated themselves with superior performance across…

CPO News – April 2, 2018

By Andrew Bartolini April 2, 2018Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, People, Strategic Sourcing

Welcome to the Spring 2018 edition of CPO News! There are lots of stories to cover today, so grab yourself a cup of coffee and ease into the week with…

Payables Place First Thing: AP Automation: Beyond Transactional Efficiency

By Andrew Bartolini March 30, 2018Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

Throughout my career, I’ve worked with hundreds of companies looking to automate their Accounts Payable operations. Typically, the organizations are drowning in paper, suffering from manual, time-consuming, costly, error-prone processes…

Technology Round-Up – March 29, 2018

By Andrew Bartolini March 29, 2018Articles, Complex Categories, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Best Practices in Supplier Management – A 360 Degree View

By Andrew Bartolini March 28, 2018Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

A fact of 2018 is that while meeting suppliers is not particularly difficult, finding the right ones and managing them well is. Heightened volatility in a market that has become increasingly…

The Marketplace is the Future – A Briefing with Tradeshift

By Andrew Bartolini March 26, 2018Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

The research team at Ardent Partners recently met with Tradeshift in its San Francisco headquarters. CEO and Chairman, Christian Lanng led the discussion attended by Chief Strategy Officer, Sarika Garg, Chief Marketing Officer, David Ahrens and other…

Payables Place First Thing: Thoughts from SAP Concur Fusion: Delivering Value to Customers, Growth though the Partner Ecosystem, and Analytics Front and Center

By Andrew Bartolini March 23, 2018Articles, Events, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology

After spending the better part of last week in Las Vegas at SAP Ariba Live, this week I headed to the beautiful Pacific Northwest to attend the SAP Concur Fusion in Seattle…