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NEW WEBINAR – Five Strategies to Increase Procurement Intelligence (and Performance)

By Phil Bartolini September 16, 2021Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General

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

By Christopher Dwyer September 15, 2021Articles, Contingent Workforce Weekly, General, Podcast, Solution Providers

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

By Phil Bartolini September 14, 2021Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People

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 Procurement Philosophy of CPO Bill Cooper

By Andrew Bartolini September 13, 2021Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People

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

By Andrew Bartolini September 10, 2021Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay

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

By Phil Bartolini September 9, 2021Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General

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…

Next-Gen Spend: Accelerating Procurement Performance with Spend Analytics

By Andrew Bartolini September 3, 2021Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Technology

There may be no greater advantage for the modern enterprise than visibility. Today’s procurement organizations are often under pressure to not only drive down costs while improving category management, but…

Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 605: As the Summer Ends, Business Agility and Flexibility Will Be Paramount

By Christopher Dwyer September 2, 2021Articles, Contingent Workforce Weekly, General, People, Podcast

Welcome to an all-new edition of the Contingent Workforce Weekly episode, sponsored by DZConneX, a Yoh company. As the summer ends, the arrival of fall brings continued uncertainty to both…

The Accounts Payable Benchmarks in 2021

By Andrew Bartolini September 1, 2021Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay1 Comment

The performance of the typical AP function is rooted in its ability to effectively manage the many facets of the invoice and payment processes. To effectively drive AP forward into…

The 2021 Procurement Benchmarks – Part 2

By Andrew Bartolini August 30, 2021Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General

Ardent’s analysis in this report determined Best-in-Class procurement performance by identifying the top 20% of performers in the spend under management metric. As a group, they have placed, on average,…