Procurement Analytics in 2016: The Quest for Visibility
Editor's Note: Today we're talking about procurement analytics and the quest for visibility in 2016. On June 23, we're going to be discussing The Future of Procurement Analytics: How to Get…
3 Ways Accounts Payable and Treasury Can Collaborate
Accounts payable (“AP”) and treasury can and should be natural partners within the average enterprise. AP manages a significant source of cash outflows in the form of supplier payments, and…
Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 103: The Technology Ecosystem
Last week, Episode 102 of Contingent Workforce Weekly featured a discussion of the lessons we can learn from the Golden State Warriors, an NBA team that is only two games…
How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – Spend Analysis
In the digital age, organizations as a whole and procurement departments in particular swim in data. It is everywhere, spread across an alphabet soup of internal and external systems –…
3 Reasons AP is Vital to Cash Management
Accounts payable (“AP”) in the modern age has the potential to become a hub of financial and operational intelligence for the greater enterprise, pushing this once back-office function into new…
Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 102: Lessons Learned from the Golden State Warriors
Last week, CPO Rising announced that it will produce my new weekly podcast series, Contingent Workforce Weekly (catch up here if you missed last week’s episode). Every Wednesday at noon,…
How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – A Series Introduction
In the digital age, organizations as a whole and procurement departments in particular swim in data. It is everywhere, spread across an alphabet soup of internal and external systems –…
Miss Any of These Events This Spring? Catch Up, Today!
Editor's Note: It's been a busy few months here at Ardent Partners, and the Memorial Day Weekend has given us a chance to pause and reflect on the ground that…
Fraud Prevention (2) – CPO Strategies
Today, we follow up on our last article, which discussed procurement fraud and Apple’s bad apple, Paul Shin Devine, who has been accused of taking more than $1 million in illegal kickbacks from the…
ANNOUNCING – Contingent Workforce Weekly: A New Podcast Series from Ardent Partners
Ardent Partners is excited to announce Contingent Workforce Weekly, a new weekly podcast that will tackle a variety of issues within the non-employee workforce world, including the evolution of talent…