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Sailing Downstream: Why Source-to-Settle Defines Procurement Transformation in 2015 (Webinar)

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team February 13, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

For sure, enterprises as a whole and procurement teams in particular can log significant financial and operational improvements through implementing basic strategic sourcing processes, such as spend analysis, sourcing/ eSourcing,…

Previewing Next Week’s Complex Spend Management: Best Practices in CWM Webinar

By Christopher Dwyer February 12, 2015Articles, Complex Categories, Events, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Editor’s note: Today’s article is a preview of next week’s exclusive webinar with Ardent Partners analysts Andrew Bartolini and Christopher J. Dwyer. The event, sponsored by Beeline, focuses on the…

Collaborative Contract Management: Procurement’s Role in Enhancing Compliance and Mitigating Risk (Webinar)

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team February 9, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology1 Comment

In 2015, collaboration is the name of the game in procurement and frequently entails working with key internal stakeholders (like line-of-business managers and legal departments) or preferred suppliers to drive…

How Did We Do? Revisiting Our 2014 Predictions (Part II)

By Andrew Bartolini February 6, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategy, Technology

In 2014, we made some bold predictions. Now an even bolder move..... we evaluate and grade them. This is Part 2, here is Part 1. Since I was behind many…

ePayables: Big Trends & Predictions for 2015 (Webinar)

By Andrew Bartolini February 4, 2015Articles, Events, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Ardent Partners research over the past five years has shown that the use of B2B electronic payments (ePayments) is on the rise, having captured the attention of finance and AP…

Deem – Moving Beyond Travel and Expense Management

By Andrew Bartolini February 3, 2015Articles, Complex Categories, Process, Solution Providers, Technology

For procurement practitioners, managing spend across multiple categories and aligning them to the larger source-to-settle process is both a challenge and a goal. Manual, disparate processes require more time and…

Going Global: The Difficulties in Expanding Contingent Workforce Management Programs

By Christopher Dwyer February 2, 2015Articles, Complex Categories, People, Solution Providers, Strategy

Editor’s note: Interested in learning more about how the contingent workforce will continue to evolve in the year ahead? Make sure to join us on Tuesday, February 17 at 2pm…

Then and Now: A Technology Evolution Series, Part IV: Mobile Applications

By Christopher Dwyer January 28, 2015Articles, Complex Categories, General, Process, Technology

CPO Rising is excited to publish an interesting series of articles focused on the evolution of technology solutions and automated platforms within the greater spend management spectrum. In each article,…

What Does 2015 Hold for Travel and Expense Management?

By Christopher Dwyer January 26, 2015Articles, Complex Categories, Process, Technology

Frequent visitors to CPO Rising will know that the complex category of business travel has increasingly become a bigger line-item at the average enterprise. In fact, the current business travel…

Then and Now: A Technology Evolution Series, Part III: Event Management

By Christopher Dwyer January 22, 2015Articles, Complex Categories, Process, Strategy, Technology1 Comment