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CPO Rising 2016: How the Best-in-Class Manage Supplier Performance for Superior Gains

By Andrew Bartolini August 16, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Editor’s Note: For the past few weeks, we have been featuring a series of articles based in large part on Ardent Partners’ flagship research report, CPO Rising 2016: The Art and…

ePayables 2016: Technology Innovations that Can Change the Face of AP

By Andrew Bartolini August 12, 2016Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a sneak peek into the findings from Ardent Partners’ latest AP research report, “ePayables 2016: Eyes on Prize,” available for download here. CPO Rising will feature…

Throwback Thursday: Procurement Fraud Prevention – The Expert (Part 2)

By Andrew Bartolini August 11, 2016Articles, General, People, Process, Strategy

Editor’s Note: In the spirit of “Throwback Thursday,” we’re bringing our audience this gem from all the way back to late summer 2010, Ardent’s first summer. It’s been some time…

Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 112: Listener Mailbag (Gig Economy Edition)

By Christopher Dwyer August 10, 2016Articles, Complex Categories, General, People, Process, Strategy, Technology

Welcome to another edition of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast. This week, host Christopher Dwyer answers listener questions about the “gig economy” and discusses why professionals across various business functions,…

Webinar! Procurement 2020: A Strategy Checklist for the Decade Ahead

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team August 10, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Editor's Note: Are you free next Thursday, August 18 at 2 PM EST? Join Andrew Bartolini, Chief Research Officer, and Matthew York, Research Analyst, of Ardent Partners for a free webinar on…

Bravo’s New P2P Advantage: BravoSolution Acquires Puridiom (Instant Analysis)

By Andrew Bartolini August 9, 2016Articles, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Yesterday, BravoSolution, a supply management solution provider that offers a suite of strategic sourcing solutions, announced that it had acquired Puridiom, a small, but longstanding solution suite provider specializing in…

How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – Supplier Performance Management

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team August 8, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, 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 –…

Scanmarket: Continued Growth and an Eye on a Source-to-Settle Future

By Andrew Bartolini August 4, 2016Articles, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

The analyst team at Ardent Partners recently sat down with Ole Nielsen, Founder and Chairman of Scanmarket A/S, a European-based provider of strategic sourcing solutions that was founded in 1999.…

Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 111: How Does Procurement Fit Into the “Gig Economy?”

By Christopher Dwyer August 3, 2016Articles, Complex Categories, General, People, Process, Strategy, Technology

This week’s Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast answers a question that many procurement professionals and executives are asking: how does the function fit into the “gig economy?” As the contingent and…

CPO Rising 2016: How the Best-in-Class Leverage eSourcing for Superior Performance

By Andrew Bartolini August 2, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Editor’s Note: Today and for the next few weeks, we will feature a series of articles based in large part on Ardent Partners’ flagship research report, CPO Rising 2016: The Art…