CPO News – September 2, 2016
PSEG Names Brian Clark VP of Procurement On August 22, Newark, New Jersey-based PSEG Services Corp. announced that it has named Brian Clark as its newest Vice President of Procurement,…
How Will the “Gig Economy” Impact Procurement in 2017?
The procurement function has experienced first-hand business evolution across a variety of attributes, from technology and innovation to the emergence of data-driven strategies. Today’s procurement professionals have the opportunity to…
Genpact: A Procurement BPO Provider Swims Upstream
Genpact (Ticker: G), the business process outsourcing (“BPO”) firm, has a long history as a procurement outsourcing provider. Today's article highlights my recent conversation with Jonathan Kirby, the SVP and Practice…
The Art and Science of Procurement
“To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science. Learn how to see.” – Leonardo Da Vinci, Artist & Scientist The idea behind the…
Exostar: Enhancing Security for Source-to-Settle Solutions
The Ardent Partners analyst team recently sat down with Tim Zullo, Senior Director, Sales & Marketing, and Mark Hogan, Product Manager, of Exostar, a provider of secure, cloud-based solutions for heavily-regulated industries. The two executives…
Are Your Supply Management Processes “Fail-safe?”
When things don’t go according to plans, the unprepared are often forced to act as mere spectators left to "grin and bear it," while hoping that either no one notices or that…
Going Swifter, Higher, Stronger in 2016
The Rio 2016 Olympics are still going full throttle through this Sunday and I've been doing my best to watch as much as I can (how about those American swimmers from…
CPO Rising 2016: How the Best-in-Class Manage Supplier Performance for Superior Gains
Editor’s Note: For the past few weeks, we have been featuring a series of articles based in large part on Ardent Partners’ flagship research report, CPO Rising 2016: The Art and…
Webinar! Procurement 2020: A Strategy Checklist for the Decade Ahead
Editor's Note: Are you free next Thursday, August 18 at 2 PM EST? Join Andrew Bartolini, Chief Research Officer, and Matthew York, Research Analyst, of Ardent Partners for a free webinar on…
How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – Supplier Performance Management
In the digital age, organizations as a whole and procurement departments in particular swim in data. It is everywhere, spread across an alphabet soup of internal and external systems –…