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SAP Ariba Live: Making Supply Risk Management Awesome

By Andrew Bartolini March 24, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Earlier this week, Andrew Bartolini and I attended the annual SAP Ariba LIVE conference at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas. The event is one of the industry’s largest (~3200 estimated attendees) and…

Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 133: March Listener Mailbag Edition

By Christopher Dwyer March 22, 2017Articles, Complex Categories, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

The Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast is live with the March edition of our monthly “listener mailbag.” During this week’s podcast, we discuss: Recent news related to the Beeline/IQN merger branding…

Three Innovative Technologies Driving Procurement Agility – Part Two

By Andrew Bartolini March 21, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Lists, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology3 Comments

It has been stated often in Ardent Partners research and webinars that “it is an exciting time to work in procurement.” And this is no less true today than it…

The Ardent Partners ePayables Framework: An Overview

By Andrew Bartolini March 20, 2017Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

The analyst team at Ardent Partners spends a lot of time discussing what we call the ePayables Framework. We discuss it at length in our market research studies. But maybe…

How to Minimize Procurement Fraud

By Andrew Bartolini March 17, 2017Articles, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

[Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a guest publication from Thierry Jaffry, Vice President of Operations at Simetryk, a Montreal-based provider of supplier information management solutions. Ardent Partners is happy to review and feature…

P2P Technology Round-Up – March 16, 2017

By Andrew Bartolini March 16, 2017Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Oildex Announces New Supplier Success Program On February 22, Oildex, a leading provider of oil and gas accounting software, announced its new supplier success program. Effective April 1, Oildex will…

Beeline and IQNavigator Announce New Post-Merger Branding

By Christopher Dwyer March 15, 2017Articles, Complex Categories, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

The technology landscape in the world of non-employee workforce management, in recent years, has proven to be anything but static given the shifts in the speed of business, evolution of…

Why 2017 is the Year for Total Workforce Management

By Christopher Dwyer March 15, 2017Articles, Complex Categories, People, Process, Strategy, Technology

Editor’s Note: The Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast returns from its brief winter hiatus next week with an all-new listener mailbag edition. Next week’s episode will tackle topics such as total…

Three Innovative Technologies Driving Procurement Agility – Part One

By Andrew Bartolini March 14, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Lists, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

It has been stated often in Ardent Partners research and webinars that "it is an exciting time to work in procurement." And this is no less true today than it…

How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – ePayments

By Andrew Bartolini March 13, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

In the digital age, organizations as a whole and procurement departments in particular swim in data. It is everywhere, spread across an alphabet soup of internal and external systems –…