Bob Kane: an “Old School” CPO with a “New School” Style
Ardent Partners is pleased to welcome Robert “Bob” Kane to CPO Rising 2016 today in Boston, where he will give a talk on Managing Risk in a Global Supply Chain.…
This is It: Your Last Chance to Download the 2015-2016 “State of CWM” Report
By now, we’ve already discussed the stats: 35% of today’s total workforce is considered non-employee, a 10% growth over last year. And, better yet: within the next few years, nearly…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Heidi Landry: An Expat CPO’s Journey across the Procurement Landscape
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…