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Case Closed: How to Build a Winning Business Case in Seven Easy Steps

By Andrew Bartolini October 1, 2012Articles, Events, General, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

UPDATE: The webinar discussed below is now available by clicking the following archive link (registration required). The fall event season has officially begun. Accordingly, I will try to update you…

P2P – The Best-in-Class Blueprint (Webinar)

By Andrew Bartolini September 17, 2012Articles, Events, General, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers

The results of Best-in-Class organizations show that an investment in P2P can pay large dividends, while the relentless pressure on bottom-line performance makes a P2P investment all, but necessary, for…

Survey is LIVE for “CPO Rising 2012: Keeping Score”

By Andrew Bartolini August 28, 2012Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, Process, Technology1 Comment

I’d like to announce that we have just launched the survey to our major CPO-focused research effort for 2012. Starting today, you have a chance to participate in this survey…

Introducing Payables Place

By Andrew Bartolini June 18, 2012Articles, Events, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology

For the past six years, the analysts (Andrew Bartolini & Vishal Patel) at Ardent Partners have been closely covering the ePayables (or AP Automation) market. During that time, we've published…

Becoming a Chief Procurement Officer – Webinar

By Andrew Bartolini June 8, 2012Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People

Publisher's Note: This report is now available in the Ardent Partners library at a substantial discount. Click here to learn more. Who wants to be a CPO? Given the responsibilities, exposure,…

Sourcing for Value: Using Non-Price Attributes to Find the Best Suppliers

By Andrew Bartolini May 25, 2012Articles, Events, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

We recently published a series focused on the use of non-price attributes to improve the sourcing and supplier selection process. And now, that series has spawned a webinar and a…

Heinz – Keystone to Procurement Success (Part 2)

By Andrew Bartolini April 23, 2012Articles, Events, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Today we continue with Part Two of the H.J. Heinz procurement story as told in three parts (two presentations and one, one-on-one interview all by/with Christopher Yope, Heinz' Global SRM…

Heinz’ Keystone to Procurement Success (Part 1)

By Andrew Bartolini April 20, 2012Articles, Events, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology

Another day, another article, another event, another great presentation from a leading procurement group..... This time, we focus in on the H.J. Heinz procurement story as told in three parts…

CPO Shop Talk – Ariba LIVE and Jean-Jacques Beaussart

By Andrew Bartolini April 18, 2012Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People

Our last article introduced Leslie Campbell, Chief Procurement Officer at Reed Elsevier and her keynote at Ariba LIVE 2012. Today we continue with another CPO on the Rise at Ariba…

CPO Shop Talk: Ariba LIVE 2012

By Andrew Bartolini April 16, 2012Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, Solution Providers, Technology

Ariba’s North American Conference Ariba LIVE 2012 was held last week at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. What I said last year about the event still holds true that "Ariba’s…