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 Procurement Philosophy of CPO 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…
Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 605: As the Summer Ends, Business Agility and Flexibility Will Be Paramount
Welcome to an all-new edition of the Contingent Workforce Weekly episode, sponsored by DZConneX, a Yoh company. As the summer ends, the arrival of fall brings continued uncertainty to both…
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,…
Once More, With Feeling: Empathy Is the Only Way Forward
“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.” – Meryl Streep Over the past…