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Payables Place Asks “Would You Bet On Paper or Against It?”
Earlier today, Vishal Patel, Director of ePayables Research at Ardent Partners posed an interesting question on Ardent’s new site, Payables Place, regarding the amount of paper invoices in the marketplace... Read more
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M & A(riba) – SAP’s Big Bet
Building on our “instant analysis” of SAP’s multi-billion dollar bid for Ariba, we’ve now come back with a comprehensive report that covers the deal in greater detail. For those of... Read more
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Introducing Payables Place
For the past six years, the analysts (Andrew Bartolini & Vishal Patel) at Ardent Partners have been closely covering the ePayables (or AP Automation) market. During that time, we’ve published... Read more
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Sourcing for Value: Using Non-Price Attributes to Find the Best Suppliers
We recently published a series focused on the use of non-price attributes to improve the sourcing and supplier selection process. And now, that series has spawned a webinar and a... Read more
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Instant Analysis: Acquisition in the Clouds – SAP to Acquire Ariba for $4.3 Billion
The procurement-themed events held at SAP’s SAPPHIRE in Orlando last Monday night were abuzz with the rumor that SAP was going to make a huge cloud procurement announcement the next... Read more
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CPO News – April 25, 2012
Lots of movement this month so, this edition of CPO News offers more, but shorter stories. Yahoo CPO Joins BuyerQuest Earlier this month, Ron Carcamo, industry veteran and longtime Chief... Read more
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Heinz – Keystone to Procurement Success (Part 2)
Today we continue with Part Two of the H.J. Heinz procurement story as told in three parts (two presentations and one, one-on-one interview all by/with Christopher Yope, Heinz’ Global SRM... Read more
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Heinz’ Keystone to Procurement Success (Part 1)
Another day, another article, another event, another great presentation from a leading procurement group….. This time, we focus in on the H.J. Heinz procurement story as told in three parts... Read more
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CPO Shop Talk: Ariba LIVE 2012
Ariba’s North American Conference Ariba LIVE 2012 was held last week at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. What I said last year about the event still holds true that “Ariba’s... Read more
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The State of Spend Analysis in 2012 (2)
In our introduction to The State of Spend Analysis in 2012, we flowed from sourcing seamlessly into spend analysis to make a point. Thinking about sourcing without spend analysis is... Read more