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ePayables 101: More Metrics

By Andrew Bartolini May 11, 2012Articles, General, Lists, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Technology

ePayables 101 - More Metrics Today we’ll look at the other key metrics (besides the average cost per invoice discussed last time) that can help an AP department better understand…

ePayables 101: The Metrics

By Andrew Bartolini May 10, 2012Articles, General, Lists, Process, Procure-to-Pay

ePayables 101 - The Metrics Part 4 of our ePayables 101 series starts right in with a discussion of the key AP performance metric that can be used to build…

CPO Rising Tournament 2012

By Andrew Bartolini March 19, 2012Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, Lists

What is the best CPO tool or strategy in 2012? Our field of 32 determines this year's champion Yes folks, it's March Madness, Chief Procurement Officer Style, where the different…

Seven Trends that Will Impact Supply Management in 2012

By Andrew Bartolini January 30, 2012Articles, Events, General, Lists, Solution Providers, StrategyNo Comments

To kick off 2010 (and this site), I published a series of ten lists - our "10 for 2010" - where we made predictions, highlighted strategies, identified leaders [Sidebar: I…

750 Million People Can’t Be Wrong (a.k.a. How Social Networking Will Reshape Supply Management)

By Andrew Bartolini November 18, 2011Articles, General, Lists, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

Today's article continues our discussion of Ardent Partners' new report that takes a forward-looking view of the top social networking platforms in the context of the work environment and highlights…

Six Major Trends for AP in 2012

By Andrew Bartolini October 5, 2011Articles, General, Lists, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology18 Comments

While I have personally have spent a good deal of my time over the past six years focusing on the accounts payable market, at Ardent Partners, we have another analyst…

Six Trends in Business Travel

By Andrew Bartolini February 9, 2011Articles, General, Lists, Solution ProvidersNo Comments

Business Travel or T&E is my favorite complex category of spend because (a) it is large and has many moving parts and stakeholders, (b) procurement departments with their sourcing strategies…

More Predictions for the New Decade – Reprise

By Andrew Bartolini January 26, 2011Articles, General, ListsNo Comments

The next five My Predictions for the New Decade Part 2 Next generation supply management solutions will drive advances far beyond those achieved in the last decade. The critical value…

Predictions for the New Decade (1-5) – Reprise

By Andrew Bartolini January 24, 2011Articles, General, ListsNo Comments

A few predictions for this decade... For many years now, the arrival of every new calendar sends me into a list-making frenzy that consumes several weeks as I work to…

More eSourcing Myths – Reprise

By Andrew Bartolini January 6, 2011Articles, General, Lists, Strategic Sourcing, Technology1 Comment

Editor's Note: We continue our look back at articles from our first year by exposing five more commonly-held eSourcing myths (or what are also commonly-used excuses to bypass eSourcing). eSourcing…