Monday First Thing: Managing Strategic Suppliers
I attended SAP Ariba LIVE last week and an interesting issue arose related to supplier relationship management as well as a business stakeholder's ability to identify and properly partner with…
Top Trends and Value Drivers for AP and Procurement: Automate and Collaborate
The way enterprises do business has changed significantly over the past 15 years, and these shifts – in communication technologies, in business-to-business (B2B) commerce, and in financial tools, among others…
Monday First Thing: Early Excerpts from CPO Rising 2019
We're hard at at work on our 14th Annual CPO Rising Research Report and expect to publish it shortly. As I noted earlier in the year, it is Ardent's view…
How Far Can We Apply Industry 4.0 to Procurement?
Industry 4.0, as it has been called, is the next phase of manufacturing. By its namesake, it is the fourth industrial revolution representing not just the digitization and automation of…
Throwback Thursday: CPO Shop Talk – Career Transitions: A Sign of the Times
Publisher’s Note: In 2019, Ardent Partners is celebrating 10 years of delivering “Research with Results” to Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and other readers of this site, including published reports, eBooks, presentations, insights, articles and…
From Industry 4.0 to Procurement 4.0: Turning Innovative Ideas into Innovation
Editor's Note: Andrew Bartolini's Monday First Thing article will return next week at its usual day and time. In the meantime, we invite you to consider the specific ways that Industry 4.0…
New Webinar from Ardent Partners: Transforming Procurement to Become a “Smart” Function
The digital transformation of a procurement department is an opportunity to use technology as a means to reimagine the organization’s entire scope of operations and how it performs. Unlike the…
Throwback Thursday: Suppliers — Pay Them Now or Pay Them Later?
Publisher’s Note: In 2019, Ardent Partners is celebrating 10 years of delivering “Research with Results” to Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and other readers of this site, including published reports, eBooks, presentations, insights, articles and…
CPO News — March 6, 2019
Welcome to a late winter edition of CPO News! Over the past couple of months there have been some higher-profile appointments and promotions that occurred in the procurement world, and…
Monday First Thing – Where There’s Spark, There’s Fire
Event season commenced last week taking me to San Francisco for Scout RFP’s second annual Spark by Scout user conference. Held at the SF Jazz auditorium and described by CEO…