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Supply Chain Cyber Security: No Longer Someone Else’s Problem

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team September 26, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, Process, Strategy, Technology

On Day 1 of the Institute for Supply Management’s 101st annual conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, Timothy Hall, President of AZORCA Cyber Security, LLC, gave an eye-opening presentation on the cyber…

Key Fraud Risks across Procurement Phases (Courtesy of the UN)

By Andrew Bartolini September 23, 2016Articles, General, People, Process, Strategy

[Editor's Note: With 140 heads of state in New York City this week attending the annual United Nations General Assembly, and with us being on a procurement fraud kick lately,…

The Trends (and Benefits) of Solution Suite Adoption: CPOs Take Notice

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team September 22, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Ardent Partners has been tracking the supply management solution provider market, as well as the strategies, processes, and behaviors of Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs), their teams, and end users for…

Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 114: CWM Fantasy Draft

By Christopher Dwyer September 21, 2016Complex Categories, General, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Welcome back to the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast. This week’s episode, sponsored by ZeroChaos, recaps CPO Rising’s 2016 “Contingent Workforce Management” Fantasy Football draft, discusses some recent industry news (including…

AP Can Help Quench Treasury’s Thirst for Liquidity (Part II)

By Andrew Bartolini September 21, 2016Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

Today's article, which will examine several opportunities that exist for AP to help quench treasury’s thirst for liquidity, is a continuation or Part 2 of this article from last week. The…

Contingent Workforce Management Strategy and the “Great Divide” Between Procurement and HR

By Christopher Dwyer September 20, 2016Articles, Complex Categories, General, People, Process, Strategy

Ardent Partners is excited to announce the publication of its new Contingent Workforce Management Strategy Guide (available for download here or here), a new research study that takes a deep…

The Future of Supply Risk Management

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team September 19, 2016Articles, General, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

Catching up on a few older articles that we didn't publish this summer..... At the Institute for Supply Management’s 101st annual conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, friend of the site, Mickey North Rizza,…

Procurement Influencer Series: Rob Bernshteyn of Coupa Part II

By Andrew Bartolini September 16, 2016Articles, General, People, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Publisher's note: It should be noted that late last week, Coupa filed a Form S-1 with the SEC that begins its formal plans to conduct an IPO. This is big industry news.…

How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – Supply Risk Management

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team September 15, 2016Articles, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

In the digital age, organizations as a whole and procurement departments in particular swim in data. It is everywhere, spread across an alphabet soup of internal and external systems –…

Is Blockchain a “Future of Work” Gamechanger?

By Christopher Dwyer September 14, 2016Articles, Complex Categories, General, People, Process, Strategy, Technology2 Comments

Innovation within the business world is now an accepted attribute. It does not surprise many professionals within the realm of procurement, human resources, finance, or other key functions when new…