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The Convergence of Supplier Management and Contingent Workforce Management

By Christopher Dwyer March 20, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, General, People, Process, Strategy

From a pure procurement perspective, it’s truly exciting when another corporate function or a very complex series of processes leans heavily on the foundation set by the procurement team. In…

Three Must Know Stats about Electronic Payments

By Andrew Bartolini March 14, 2014Articles, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology1 Comment

For any AP/Finance/Procurement/Shared Service professionals that enjoy our articles, please take a few minutes to share your insights by participating in our 2014 AP survey. Participants will receive the full…

“We have no specific procurement goals.”

By Andrew Bartolini March 13, 2014Articles, General, People, Strategy

In the early days of the firm, I did a regional tour to visit different procurement organizations to get their feedback on my plans for CPO Rising and Ardent Partners.…

Welcome to the New “State” of Contingent Workforce Management, Part V: Best-in-Class Programs

By Christopher Dwyer March 11, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, General, People, Process, Technology

[Today we have our fourth installment of our series focused on The State of Contingent Workforce Management, Ardent Partners' landmark new research study. In this series, report author and Ardent…

Procurement’s Evolution, Part III: Convergence With Marketing

By Christopher Dwyer March 7, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, General, Process, Strategy1 Comment

Today, we continue our series that highlights procurement’s (and the chief procurement officer’s) evolving influence within the greater enterprise. Each of these articles will tackle a business function or enterprise…

eInvoicing – Creating Value for Suppliers

By Andrew Bartolini March 6, 2014Articles, General, Procure-to-Pay, Technology

You are invited to participate in our annual AP Market Research, click here to take the survey. All participants get a free copy of the resulting report. In my earlier…

Cross Pollination

By Andrew Bartolini March 4, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategy

First, I'd like to invite you to join me on March 20th at 2 PM ET for a webinar where I present the findings from my annual CPO Rising report…

Welcome to the New “State” of Contingent Workforce Management, Part IV: Big Data

By Christopher Dwyer February 28, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, General, People, Process, Technology

[Today we have our fourth installment of our series focused on The State of Contingent Workforce Management, Ardent Partners' landmark new research study. In this series, report author and Ardent…

Instant Analysis: ACTIVE Network and Lanyon Merge to Deliver New Offering

By Christopher Dwyer February 26, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, General, Solution Providers, Technology

ACTIVE Network Business Solutions, a solution provider in the events management industry and a subsidiary of recently privatized, ACTIVE Network, and Lanyon, a leading provider of transient hotel program technology…

Driving Value through a Connected P2P Process – Part II: Hire a P2P Lead

By Andrew Bartolini February 24, 2014Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay1 Comment

We discuss the Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process frequently on CPO Rising because of its central importance to Chief Procurement Officers and procurement operations. We also see it is as a “Hot…