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The Significance of Contract Management in Plugging Procurement’s Savings Leakage

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team July 5, 2018Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Ardent Partners research consistently illustrates the value and necessity of leveraging effective people, processes, and technologies to drive the modern procurement organization. One such process, Contract Management, resides at the…

Happy Fourth of July!

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team July 4, 2018Articles, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

From all of us at Ardent Partners to our community, we wish you and yours a happy and safe July 4th holiday. We’ll pick it back up tomorrow but in…

The Dawn of a New Age — the Age of Intelligence (New CPO Rising Report is Out!)

By Andrew Bartolini July 3, 2018Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Editor's Note: Ardent Partners is pleased to present the thirteenth installment of our annual CPO Rising benchmark procurement research study, CPO Rising 2018: The Age of Intelligence, and make it available for…

The State of ePayables 2018: AP’s Transformational Journey

By Andrew Bartolini July 2, 2018Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

Editor's Note: Today’s article is a preview of Ardent Partners’ latest accounts payable (AP) research report, “The State of ePayables 2018: The Future of AP is Now”, which is available for download here.…

Technology Round-Up – June 28, 2018

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team June 28, 2018Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing, procurement,…

Spend Data: The “Black Gold” That Sits Within Every Enterprise

By Andrew Bartolini & Christopher Dwyer June 27, 2018Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

In today’s fast-paced and constantly evolving business world, information is king. Many corporate strategies, whether created in the executive boardroom or by the professionals running day-to-day operations, are often fueled…

Contract Management Solutions: Innovation Drives Collaboration in Procurement

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team June 26, 2018Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Lists, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Technology innovation has brought new life to old processes and tools that are familiar to many procurement departments, like contract management. Manual, paper-based processes are out, while automated, digitized systems…

A New Era of Work Optimization: A Foundation for the Future of Work

By Christopher Dwyer June 25, 2018Articles, Complex Categories, Lists, Process, Strategy, Technology

Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a small slice of the new Future of Work Compendium research study. The new report was developed to serve as a “guidebook” for those organizations…

Payables Place First Thing: Exceptions are Meant for Learning, Not Repeating

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team June 22, 2018Articles, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy

Last week I discussed ‘Taking Accounts Payable to the Next Level’ and transforming the accounts payable (“AP”) function from a tactical operation to a strategic one. I spoke about leveraging…

Technology Round-Up – June 21, 2018

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team June 21, 2018Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology