The Real Value of Spend Analytics
At its core, spend analysis systems offer a fundamental series of benefits that can positively impact the procurement organizations that choose to leverage these solutions, including: Spend visibility – The…
NEW WEBINAR – Five Strategies to Increase Procurement Intelligence (and Performance)
Ardent Partners’ Webinar Series Five Strategies to Increase Procurement Intelligence (& Performance) Click Here to Register CPO in 2021 are facing greater pressure to hit or exceed performance targets amidst a…
Now Accepting Nominations for CPO Honors 2021
Ardent Partners is excited to announce that it is now accepting nominations for the sixth-annual CPO Honors The sixth annual CPO Honors Ceremony is an opportunity to celebrate the procurement…
The Sustainable Procurement Philosophy w/ Bill Cooper
Last week on the Procurement Rising Podcast (click to listen), I had the pleasure of speaking with Bill Cooper, the recently retired and former Chief Procurement Officer of the entire…
Next-Generation Spend Analysis: Digging Deeper
If you read my article last week, I talked about how the next path to procurement performance improvement will be blazed with the next generation of spend analytics and data-driven…
Procurement Rising Podcast – Bill Cooper, University of California
Today, Episode 201 of the Procurement Rising Podcast. In this podcast series, I interview Chief Procurement Officers and Best-in-Class procurement leaders as well as technology and business experts working in procurement and…
Next-Gen Spend: Accelerating Procurement Performance with Spend Analytics
There may be no greater advantage for the modern enterprise than visibility. Today’s procurement organizations are often under pressure to not only drive down costs while improving category management, but…
The 2021 Procurement Benchmarks – Part 2
Ardent’s analysis in this report determined Best-in-Class procurement performance by identifying the top 20% of performers in the spend under management metric. As a group, they have placed, on average,…
Becoming a CPO: The One Constant is Change
It is an interesting time to be working in procurement; perhaps, more interesting than in any other era. This is true across all industries and regions of the world. Business…
The 2021 Procurement Benchmarks
The 2021 Procurement Benchmarks represent the performance and operational results of the average procurement department in the market today. The percentage of spend under management at the average enterprise sits…