Andrew Bartolini | Procurement Analyst & CPO Research Specialist

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

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…

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…

Technology Round-Up – March 22, 2018

By Andrew Bartolini March 22, 2018Articles, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

CWM Technology Round-Up – March 20, 2018

By Andrew Bartolini March 20, 2018Articles, Complex Categories, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of contingent workforce management (CWM) solution-provider news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing,…

The Changing Nature of Supplier Management

By Andrew Bartolini March 19, 2018Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Business in 2018 is remarkably different than it was five years ago and it will be remarkably different five years from now. Product lifecycles are collapsing as are the windows…

Dispatch from SAP Ariba Live: Blockchain, and the Rise of the Benevolent Supply Chain – Part Two

By Andrew Bartolini March 14, 2018Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Solution Providers, Technology

Last week at SAP Ariba’s annual user conference, AribaLive, held at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, “Procurement with purpose” was more than just a slogan; it was a business model. Day after day and session…

Procurement 2018 Trends & Predictions Roundtable Discussion – Part I

By Andrew Bartolini March 13, 2018Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology1 Comment

A few weeks ago, I shared with you some of the BIG procurement trends that we at Ardent Partners, in conjunction with our sponsors, Beeline and Ivalua, shared on our…