Procurement News — June 24, 2026
Welcome to Procurement News, part of our ongoing aggregate news series covering recent supply management headlines and trends pertinent to Chief Procurement Officers and other procurement leaders! Contact us with…
Inside the Chip Supply Shift
[Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a guest post based on a conversation between Ardent's Andrew Bartolini and Graham Scott, Senior Vice President, Chief Procurement Officer at Jabil. Scott leads a…
The Control Tower Bet: Ardent Partners on Intake-to-Pay and the Zycus Approach (Part Two)
In Part One of this series, I covered my February briefing and live demo with Bikash Mohanty, VP of Solution Consulting and Product Strategy at Zycus, on Merlin Intake, Zycus’…
NEW WEBINAR: Ardent Partners & xSuite – The State of AP 2026: AI Rising
Join Ardent Partners and xSuite on June 23rd (10 AM ET) as they discuss The State of AP 2026: AI Rising. Accounts payable is entering a pivotal new era. As…
Coupa Inspire 2026: Betting the Future on Data, Agents, and Outcomes
Ten Inspires in that you develop a feel for the difference between a company “performing” confidence and a company that actually has it. Recently, Inspire felt like a conference in…
NEW WEBINAR: Procurement Metrics That Matter in 2026
Join Ardent Partners and GEP on June 24th (2 PM ET) as they discuss Procurement Metrics That Matter in 2026. Procurement has evolved into a strategic driver of business value,…
Zip AI Summit 2026: From Agents to Superagents
On June 2, procurement, finance, and technology leaders gathered at the Ace Hotel in Brooklyn for Zip's AI Summit 2026. It was one of those classic early-summer New York days.…
Supplier Management Becomes a Strategic Imperative
Procurement has undergone a remarkable transformation over the past two decades. Once viewed primarily as a cost control function focused on transactional efficiency, it now occupies a central role in…
Winning 2026: The CPO 45-Second Briefing – “The Intelligent Arbitrage: Learning from the AI Front-Runners”
Andrew Bartolini, founder and chief research officer for Ardent Partners, has been tracking how procurement evolves for 20 years and publishing an annual report for the past decade to help…
Inside IVA Studio: Architecting the Autonomous Procurement Workforce
(This is Part 2 of our series on the 2026 Ivalua NOW conference in Paris. You can read Part 1: Procurement Enters the Agentic AI Era here.) As I discussed…