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Moving the Ball Forward: The Top Three Goals for AP in the Years Ahead

By Andrew Bartolini April 10, 2017Articles, Lists, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

Understanding the accounts payable (AP) department’s priorities can be an important first step in improving current AP operations and better aligning the function with core enterprise objectives. Figuring out the…

Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 135: The Innovation Edition

By Christopher Dwyer April 5, 2017Articles, Complex Categories, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

This week’s exciting new episode of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast, sponsored by Shiftgig, is an “innovation edition” that highlights three avenues of innovation that will have a dramatic impact…

Three Game-Changing Innovations to Move Your AP Department Forward

By Andrew Bartolini April 3, 2017Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

Like the designated hitter and the use of sabermetrics in baseball, there are a number of game-changing innovations available to the modern accounts payable (AP) professional that can help get…

Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 134: Does the Gig Economy Have Long-Term Benefits?

By Christopher Dwyer March 29, 2017Articles, Complex Categories, People, Process, Strategy, Technology

Welcome to another all-new edition of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast. This week, we tackle an interesting question: does the “gig economy” have long-term benefits”? What does the gig economy…

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

By Andrew Bartolini 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…

The Top Three Priorities for AP Departments in the Year Ahead

By Andrew Bartolini March 27, 2017Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

The accounts payable (AP) function as a whole is in the midst of an automation transformation. And slowly but surely, the perception of AP is slowly changing as well. It is…

SAP Ariba Live: Making Supply Risk Management Awesome

By Andrew Bartolini 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…

Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 133: March Listener Mailbag Edition

By Christopher Dwyer March 22, 2017Articles, Complex Categories, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

The Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast is live with the March edition of our monthly “listener mailbag.” During this week’s podcast, we discuss: Recent news related to the Beeline/IQN merger branding…

Three Innovative Technologies Driving Procurement Agility – Part Two

By Andrew Bartolini 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…

The Ardent Partners ePayables Framework: An Overview

By Andrew Bartolini March 20, 2017Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

The analyst team at Ardent Partners spends a lot of time discussing what we call the ePayables Framework. We discuss it at length in our market research studies. But maybe…