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Five Considerations When Selecting a Business Network

By Vishal Patel February 25, 2013Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology

Supplier networks have existed for many years and over the initial years slowly gained in popularity. Today, however, these networks are a quickly growing trend and an increasingly cost effective…

Send a Lieutenant

By Andrew Bartolini February 22, 2013Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Strategy

From the Archives (May 19, 2010) but, with a few updates: This one is worth another look if simply for the picture - Wow! In January of 2007, “Mister Softee”…

Bring a Lieutenant

By Andrew Bartolini February 19, 2013Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Strategy

From the Archives (May, 18, 2010 but, with a few updates): I was recently reminded of this article as I exchanged notes with the the CPO profiled in this article…

Concentra: An ePayables Case Study

By Vishal Patel February 15, 2013Articles, General, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Concentra is a health care company that provides occupational medicine, urgent care, physical therapy, and wellness services to workers and the general public from 308 medical centers in 40 states.…

CPO Rising: Keeping Score (Webinar)

By Andrew Bartolini February 14, 2013Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People

Over the past few weeks, I have been sharing key findings from Ardent Partners' latest research report, CPO Rising: Keeping Score. And, I will continue to share findings going forward.…

From CPO to EVP & Global Head of Business Services

By Andrew Bartolini February 12, 2013Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People

In January, 2010, I made a series of predictions for the decade ahead in the second article ever published on this site. The first prediction was: Many of today’s leading…

The Value of Accounts Payable

By Vishal Patel February 8, 2013Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy

Another great article from Vishal Patel, the research director in charge of all ePayables research at Ardent Partners. He is also the editor-in-chief of Payables Place, a site that is…

When Collaboration is Not a Main Focus

By Andrew Bartolini February 7, 2013Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Strategy

Over the last few articles, we have looked at collaboration - first I looked at collaboration from the CPO's perspective and then, Vishal looked at it from the accounts payable…

Driving Savings: How to Use the Category Sourcing Scorecard

By Andrew Bartolini February 4, 2013Articles, Events, General, Process, Strategic Sourcing

In 2012, our Category Sourcing Scorecard series was one of the most popular. As a reminder the Scorecard was a tool developed by Ardent Partners to help sourcing teams prioritize…

Stop, Collaborate & Listen

By Vishal Patel January 31, 2013Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

Today, I am pleased to welcome Vishal Patel back to these pages. Vishal will be a more frequent contributor to CPO Rising in 2013, which is good news for everyone.…