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CPO Rising 2016 Summit: Sourcing, Supply Risk, and Contract Management

By Andrew Bartolini March 25, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing

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…

Survey: ePayables 2016 – Accounts Payable is Keeping its “Eyes on the Prize”

By Andrew Bartolini March 24, 2016Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay

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…

Technology Round-Up – March 24, 2016

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team March 24, 2016Articles, Complex Categories, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing

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…

CPO Rising 2016 Summit: Showcasing the Value of Sourcing Across All Categories

By Andrew Bartolini March 23, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, Strategic Sourcing

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…

The Value of Analytical Thinking for the P2P Team

By Andrew Bartolini March 22, 2016Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay

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…

How New or Improved Technologies Can Transform Procurement – Contract Management

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team March 16, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Strategy, Technology1 Comment

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…

Webinar Preview: Savings and Risk: The Rise of Analytics for Procurement – March 23

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team March 15, 2016Events, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

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…

Heidi Landry: An Expat CPO’s Journey across the Procurement Landscape

By Andrew Bartolini March 14, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, Lists, People, Process, Strategy, Technology1 Comment

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…

Research Preview: Innovative Solutions and Strategies for Better Contract Management – Part II

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team March 11, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Today’s article is the second of two articles from a report that we recently published, entitled, Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Innovative Solutions and Strategies for Better Contract Management, sponsored by DocuSign and available for free download…

Technology Round-Up – March 10, 2016

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team March 10, 2016Articles, Complex Categories, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Tradeshift, MetaProcure Partner to Bring Managed Procurement Services to the Masses On March 8, Tradeshift, the California-based provider of supplier collaboration networks, announced that is has partnered with Georgia-based MetaProcure, a provider of…