Four Supplier Management Best Practices
Business pressures and needs have changed over the past five years such that product lifecycles are shorter and market swings are wider than ever before. The pace of business has…
ePayables 2015: What is the Biggest ePayables Priority in 2015?
It is with great pleasure that Ardent Partners announces the publication of its latest state of accounts payable (AP) research report—“ePayables 2015: Higher Ground.” Like the annual reports that came…
It’s Never Too Late to Master the Art of SOW Management (Upcoming Webinar)
When most companies evaluate their contingent workforce management (CWM) programs, they will identify areas of both weakness and strength. As the non-employee workforce has grown and evolved in recent years,…
Research Preview: Five Transformative Strategies to Unlock More Procurement Value – Part II
Today’s article is the second of two articles from a report that we recently published, entitled, Five Transformative Strategies to Unlock More Procurement Value, sponsored by BravoSolution and available for free download by clicking here. The current generation…
ePayables 2015: 3 Important Accounts Payable Goals for the Next Two Years
It is with great pleasure that Ardent Partners announces the publication of its latest state of accounts payable (AP) research report—“ePayables 2015: Higher Ground.” Like the annual reports that came…
Research Preview: Five Transformative Strategies to Unlock More Procurement Value – Part I
Today's article is the first of two articles from a report that we recently published, entitled, Five Transformative Strategies to Unlock More Procurement Value, sponsored by BravoSolution and available for free download by clicking here.…
Devil’s Advocate: Does Ethical/Sustainable Sourcing Matter in Procurement?
One of the lessons I learned some years ago in becoming an analyst is to challenge your assumptions - to flip what you think you know about a problem upside…
Contingent Workforce Myths…Debunked
With non-employee workers (including freelancers, temporary workers, SOW-based labor and contractors) comprising more and more of the average company’s total workforce, the current perception of contingent workforce management is sometimes…
ePayables 2015: How Improved Exception Handling Can Drive AP Performance
It is with great pleasure that Ardent Partners announces the publication of its latest state of accounts payable (AP) research report—“ePayables 2015: Higher Ground.” Like the annual reports that came…
Top 5 Strategies to Better Manage Supply Risk
We have discussed at length how the CPO role is converging across the enterprise to include more responsibilities, and more overlap with traditionally-siloed departments, like finance, HR, Legal, Logistics, Operations,…