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The ROI of a Best-in-Class Procurement Department – Report Preview!

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team March 28, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Ardent Partners, in conjunction with Zycus, is pleased to present this research report, The ROI of a Best-in-Class Procurement Department. Interested readers can access the report with our compliments by…

SAP Ariba Live: Making Supply Risk Management Awesome

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team March 24, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Earlier this week, Andrew Bartolini and I attended the annual SAP Ariba LIVE conference at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas. The event is one of the industry’s largest (~3200 estimated attendees) and…

Three Innovative Technologies Driving Procurement Agility – Part Two

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team March 21, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Lists, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology3 Comments

It has been stated often in Ardent Partners research and webinars that “it is an exciting time to work in procurement.” And this is no less true today than it…

How to Minimize Procurement Fraud

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team March 17, 2017Articles, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

[Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a guest publication from Thierry Jaffry, Vice President of Operations at Simetryk, a Montreal-based provider of supplier information management solutions. Ardent Partners is happy to review and feature…

Three Innovative Technologies Driving Procurement Agility – Part One

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team March 14, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Lists, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

It has been stated often in Ardent Partners research and webinars that "it is an exciting time to work in procurement." And this is no less true today than it…

Technology Round-Up – March 9, 2017

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team March 9, 2017Articles, Complex Categories, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology1 Comment

Determine Announces Financial Results for Q3 2017 On February 9, Determine, Inc. (NASDAQ: DTRM), the Indiana-based provider of contract management and source-to-settle solutions for the cloud, announced financial results for the third quarter of Fiscal Year…

The ROI of a Best-in-Class Procurement Department – Report Preview!

SAP Ariba Live: Making Supply Risk Management Awesome

Three Innovative Technologies Driving Procurement Agility – Part Two

How to Minimize Procurement Fraud

Three Innovative Technologies Driving Procurement Agility – Part One

Technology Round-Up – March 9, 2017

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CWM Technology Round-Up – February 23, 2017

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