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Source-to-Settle Transformation: Two Headings — One Destination
“Procurement transformation” has become a common theme for many Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and other procurement leaders who are searching for an advantage in an increasingly competitive and complex business marketplace.... Read more
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Supply Management’s Long, Slow March Towards Digital Transformation
Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a sample from Ardent Partners’ latest research report, CPO Rising 2018: The Age of Intelligence (click to register and download). Readers can access all of this year’s... Read more
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Contingent Workforce Management’s “Age of Intelligence” is Here
In any business function, visibility is paramount. The wide scope of enterprise operations, from invoice-processing and supplier management to talent acquisition and spend management, necessitates a modern focus on the... Read more
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Now Accepting Nominations for the CPO Honors Awards — Is Your Team a Best-in-Class Procurement Department?
Ardent Partners is excited to announce the second annual CPO Honors Gala that will recognize the top CPOs and their teams for outstanding performance and execution over the last year.... Read more
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Best Practices in Supplier Identification
In an age where enterprises are more reliant upon their suppliers than at any other time in history, it is a fundamental truth that to achieve both procurement success and... Read more
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Learn How to Turn Procurement Intelligence Into Procurement Agility – The CPO Rising 2018 Summit
With the rise of Big Data, advanced analytics, and next-generation supply management applications, Chief Procurement Officers and their teams are more agile today than at any time in the history... Read more
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The Age of Intelligence: Ascending to the Next Level of Procurement Performance – New WEBINAR!
Are you free next Tuesday, September 25 at 1:00 PM Eastern Time? Join Ardent Partners’ Founder and Chief Research Officer, Andrew Bartolini, on a webinar entitled The Age of Intelligence:... Read more
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Ardent’s Analysis: Coupa Acquires VMS Provider DCR Workforce
Last Tuesday afternoon, leading business spend management and cloud solution provider, Coupa Software, announced that it had acquired the “technology assets” of Vendor Management System (“VMS”), DCR Workforce (“DCR”). Terms... Read more
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What’s in the Secret Sauce? How BirchStreet Serves P2P to the Hospitality Industry
We recently spoke with friend of the site and current SVP of Marketing and Product Strategy for Birchstreet, Sundar K., for a briefing that covered the history and progression of... Read more
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Set Your Course for Procurement Transformation
The fact of the matter is that most procurement organizations struggle to do things very well or even consistently well. Certainly there are groups (often referred to by Ardent Partners... Read more