Best of 2020: The Key Criteria for Supply Management Solution Selection
Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on CPO Rising, we’re publishing some “best of” 2020 articles as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead.…
Happy Holidays from Ardent Partners!
Another year will soon be in the books and 2021 is going start with a bang! (Register for our Big Trends & Predictions Webinar here) Until then, we want to wish…
Planning for 2021? A Few Thoughts for Chief Procurement Officers
Tomorrow, we start our annual Best of the Year, which is always great time to reflect and look at where we have been this past year. Today, however, we look…
Driving Value from Accounts Payable
Across every enterprise function, a real impact has been felt by the pandemic fallout. Procurement faces supply chain disruptions, finance must ensure there is funding to support operations, product management…
Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 522: A Conversation with Dr. Julie Swann (Department Head, NC State University) on the Impact of Vaccines on 2021 Workforce Strategies
The final 2020 episode of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast, sponsored by PRO Unlimited and RatePoint, features an in-depth discussion with Dr. Julie Swann, department head and A. Doug Allison…
20 for 2020: Key Providers in the 2020s – Fairmarkit
Earlier this year, we initiated the first of our planned 20 for 2020 series’ as an echo to the 10 for 2010 series that we used to launch this site. That first 2020 series…
Technology’s Impact on ‘Best-in-Class’ AP Teams
Daniel Yergin, the Pulitzer-prize winning author, speaker, energy expert, and economic historian once said that “people always underestimate the impact of technology.” One group not taking anything for granted are…
Ardent’s “2K20 Series” – Maximizing Spend Management with AP Automation Session
Ardent Partners hosted The CPO Rising 2K20 Virtual Series – The Resiliency Imperative as a way to bring together our global community of procurement, finance, and supply management professionals and collectively tackle…
Defining Procurement-led Innovation
Innovation is such a wonderfully powerful word and such a wonderfully broad concept. Innovation can be complex; but, it can also be simple. Some innovations are market-driven while others are…
Best-in-Class AP in the Age of Intelligence
Businesses and consumers today are fully engulfed by technology and the data it creates and captures. The same holds true for AP departments across the globe. Accounts payable’s “Big Data”…