When Does “The Great Staff Shortage” End?
This past weekend, my wife and I traveled over two hours north to meet family for an apple-picking trip (perhaps the best of the fall activities? A debate for another…
Future of Work Exchange Key Providers For 2021: MyBasePay
[Editor’s Note: Over the next several weeks, the Future of Work Exchange will unveil its “21 for 2021” list of key solution providers that are shaping the Future of Work through innovative…
Procurement Rising Podcast – Thomas Udesen, Bayer and the Sustainable Procurement Pledge
Today, Episode 202 of the Procurement Rising Podcast. In this podcast series, I interview Chief Procurement Officers and Best-in-Class procurement leaders as well as technology and business experts working in procurement and supply…
The Real Value of Spend Analytics
At its core, spend analysis systems offer a fundamental series of benefits that can positively impact the procurement organizations that choose to leverage these solutions, including: Spend visibility – The…
NEW WEBINAR – Five Strategies to Increase Procurement Intelligence (and Performance)
Ardent Partners’ Webinar Series Five Strategies to Increase Procurement Intelligence (& Performance) Click Here to Register CPO in 2021 are facing greater pressure to hit or exceed performance targets amidst a…
Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 606: A Conversation with Cesar Jimenez, CEO of myBasePay
Another all-new edition of the Contingent Workforce Weekly episode, sponsored by DZConneX, a Yoh company, features a conversation with Cesar Jimenez, CEO of myBasePay. Cesar and I discuss the impact…
Now Accepting Nominations for CPO Honors 2021
Ardent Partners is excited to announce that it is now accepting nominations for the sixth-annual CPO Honors The sixth annual CPO Honors Ceremony is an opportunity to celebrate the procurement…
The Sustainable Procurement Philosophy w/ Bill Cooper
Last week on the Procurement Rising Podcast (click to listen), I had the pleasure of speaking with Bill Cooper, the recently retired and former Chief Procurement Officer of the entire…
Best-in-Class Accounts Payable Performance
For the last twelve years, Ardent Partners has leveraged a unique framework to highlight the performance of top-tier or Best-in- Class organizations (versus all others) by analyzing a specific set…
Next-Generation Spend Analysis: Digging Deeper
If you read my article last week, I talked about how the next path to procurement performance improvement will be blazed with the next generation of spend analytics and data-driven…