The Changing Nature of Supplier Management
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…
4 More Travel and Expense Management Articles You Should Read
Want to get away? Those of us in Boston, weighed down by winter, certainly do. Today, we provide a handy little compendium on T&E management articles as you plot your…
Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 233: Conversation with Gordon Burnes, Chief Marketing Officer of Bullhorn
Welcome to another all-new edition of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast, sponsored by ZeroChaos. This week’s podcast features a discussion with Bullhorn CMO, Gordon Burnes, as well as a quick…
Procurement 2018 Trends & Predictions Roundtable Discussion – Part I
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…
NEW REPORT: Procurement’s Keys to Driving Value and Mitigating Risk in the Financial Services Industry
Ardent Partners is pleased to present its newest custom research report, Procurement's Keys to Driving Value and Mitigating Risk in the Financial Services Industry, sponsored by Ivalua. Interested readers can…
Payables Place First Thing: More Isn’t Necessarily Better When It Comes To Supplier Portals
Welcome to Ardent Partners’ weekly “Payables Place First Thing” article series. This series will feature recent articles from our sister site Payables Place, which is the global source of ePayables news,…
SAP Ariba LIVE 2018– Refocusing on the Network and Driving Growth
As many readers know, my relationship with SAP and Ariba began 18+ years ago when I worked for the then SAP partner and primary Ariba rival, Commerce One. I later…
Dispatch from SAP Ariba Live: Blockchain, and the Rise of the Benevolent Supply Chain – Part One
Globalization has made the world a much smaller place over the last 30 to 40 years, yet trading partners are still so disconnected from each other and from their extended…
Five Things to Consider Before Beginning Digital Transformation
The Chinese philosopher Laozi once wrote in the Tao Te Ching that "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." The statement is as true today as it was in the sixth…
A Tale of Two Procurement Departments
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief,…