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CPO Rising 2016 Summit: Sourcing, Supply Risk, and Contract Management
The modern procurement executive must focus on a number of functional areas in order to remain competitive in today’s business world. This includes tasks like managing supplier relationships, sourcing the... Read more
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Survey: ePayables 2016 – Accounts Payable is Keeping its “Eyes on the Prize”
The skills that accounts payable (“AP”) teams will need to succeed in the months and years ahead are evolving rapidly. Skills that involve more transactional duties are becoming less important... Read more
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Technology Round-Up – March 24, 2016
E2Open Acquires Terra Technology On March 8, E2Open (NASDAQ: EOPN), a California-based provider of supply chain collaboration, planning, and execution solutions for the cloud, announced that it acquired Terra Technology, the Connecticut-based... Read more
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CPO Rising 2016 Summit: Showcasing the Value of Sourcing Across All Categories
Developing and maintaining an effective sourcing program is one of many game-changers that Ardent Partners has espoused for procurement teams over the last several years. Running a sourcing program that... Read more
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The Value of Analytical Thinking for the P2P Team
The tsunami of big data has broken over the enterprise for 15 years, drowning the average business operation in a deluge of financial and operational information. In terms of the... Read more
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Ardent Partners Welcomes Harold “Hal” Good, Procurement Luminary, to CPO Rising 2016!
Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks we will highlight some of the outstanding executives that are presenting at the CPO Rising 2016 Summit. Today we continue the series with an... Read more
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CPO Rising 2016 Summit: Agility and Innovation Will Keep Procurement Valuable
As the business world becomes more interconnected, all procurement departments now find that they must remain “on their toes” in order to be competitive on a global scale. Procurement teams... Read more
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How New or Improved Technologies Can Transform Procurement – Contract Management
As Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and procurement practitioners move into 2016, they have the need and the capability for advanced technology solutions to automate and link the source-to-settle process – upstream, strategic... Read more
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Webinar Preview: Savings and Risk: The Rise of Analytics for Procurement – March 23
Editor’s Note: Join Ardent Partners’ Chief Research Officer, Andrew Bartolini, along with representatives and clients of Determine, Inc. on Wednesday, March 23 at 2:00 pm EST for this complementary webinar... Read more
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UPCOMING WEBINAR: Tackling the Issues of Globalization, Growth, and Complexity
There’s no doubt that the business world is changing, sometimes moving so quickly that procurement professionals have little time to catch up, or even position themselves to develop the necessary... Read more