Five Expense Management Tips for Small Businesses
The drive for revenue by small business owners and executives demands time, focus, and resources; so much so, that expense management often becomes a secondary concern. But, since business profit…
What’s Vital to Contingent Workforce Management Programs Today?
Contingent workforce management programs (CWM) today must rely on a series of linked, holistic processes and capabilities that can enable proper control over engagement and management of non-employee talent. As…
ISM 2017 Round-Up: Top Five Highlights from Orlando
Last week, Andrew Bartolini and I had the great pleasure of attending the Institute for Supply Management’s 102nd annual conference in sunny (and muggy) Orlando, Florida. The four-day event featured…
Ardent Partners Announces The CPO Rising 2017 Summit
Publisher's Note: Ardent Partners is absolutely thrilled to announce the dates and times of its CPO Rising 2017 Summit. Over the next few weeks, we will be making a series…
Three Essential Resources for Effective Supply Risk Management
Anyone who has ever worked on a "watch floor" or in a security operations center will know that information management is the backbone of any successful risk management operation (for those…
Three MORE Innovative Technologies Driving Procurement Agility
It has been stated often in Ardent Partners research and webinars that “it is an exciting time to work in procurement.” [Sidebar: speaking of webinars… We have an exclusive event…
Six Strategies to Expand Commercial Card Programs
Leading organizations know that in order to maintain market share and market relevance, they must find strong trading partners with shared or aligned interests and develop a coalition of willing…
Opportunities for Direct Materials eSourcing
At this year’s SAP Ariba Live, SAP Ariba announced that they are making a strategic push into direct materials management, among other things, in an effort to expand their solution footprint,…
The Future of Work Manifesto, Part II
Editor’s Note: Interested in learning more about the Future of Work and its impact on contingent workforce management? Be sure to subscribe to the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast, the non-employee…
What Will it Take to Get AP to the “Next Level” of Performance?
In the past, the role of the AP operation focused primarily on data entry and manual activities. But that is changing - today, there is a great opportunity for AP…