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Meet the Speakers of CPO Rising 2017! Welcoming Back John Zagata of Enbridge

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team October 31, 2017Articles, Complex Categories, Events, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Ardent Partners is pleased to welcome John Zagata, Director of Indirect Goods and Services for Enbridge, back to Boston in a week for The CPO Rising 2017 Summit. John will deliver…

How to Navigate Your Spend Analysis Journey: Guideposts for Optimal Solution Selection (Webinar!)

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team October 30, 2017Articles, Events, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

On Tuesday, November 14 at 2 PM ET, join Ardent Partners' Chief Research Officer, Andrew Bartolini, and SpendHQ's Chief Revenue Officer, David Bush, for a complimentary webinar entitled, How to Navigate…

Supplier Information Management – A Key Enabler You Probably Don’t Have

By Andrew Bartolini October 27, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Ardent Partners research consistently finds that suppliers will remain a top focus for Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and their procurement organizations over the next three years. This makes sense since…

Meet the Speakers of CPO Rising 2017! Introducing Jeffrey Ball, CPO of Digital First Media

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team October 25, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Ardent Partners is pleased to welcome Jeffrey Ball, Chief Procurement Officer of Digital First Media, to CPO Rising 2017. Jeff will deliver a presentation entitled “Putting the ‘Strategic’ in Strategic…

Meet the Speakers of CPO Rising 2017! Welcoming Back Bill Michels

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team October 24, 2017Articles, Events, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Ardent Partners is pleased to welcome back to CPO Rising Bill Michels, CEO at Aripart Consulting and a longtime procurement practitioner. We had the chance to catch up with Bill…

Technology Round-Up – October 19, 2017

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team October 19, 2017Articles, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing, procurement, or spend…

Meet the Speakers of CPO Rising 2017! Introducing Walter Charles of Biogen

By Andrew Bartolini October 17, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

Walter Charles III is the Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) at Biogen. As the article below highlights, he is also a highly-successful innovator who has consistently over-delivered in every procurement role that…

Procurement Influencer Series: Tom Beaty, CEO of Insight Sourcing Group & SpendHQ – Part I

By Andrew Bartolini October 16, 2017Articles, People, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Editor’s Note: The following is a transcript of an interview by Andrew Bartolini with Tom Beaty, CEO of Insight Sourcing Group & SpendHQ. Some of the questions have been edited for brevity…

Supplier Performance and Risk Management – Bosom Buddies

By Andrew Bartolini October 13, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Ardent Partners research consistently finds that suppliers will remain a top focus for Chief Procurement Officers (“CPOs”) and their procurement organizations over the next three years. This makes sense since…

Technology Round-Up – October 12, 2017

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team October 12, 2017Articles, Complex Categories, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology