Monday Morning Query – Should Procurement Own AP?
It's mid-season and time to reintroduce the “MMQ” concept: during football season in the US, sports reporters, commentators, and fans wake up on Monday morning and start calling, posting, emailing,…
Suppliers: Pay Them Now or Pay Them Later?
They say that “fast money makes fast friends,” but paying slow will make you friends in the finance department. As Chief Procurement Officers and their departments become more involved in…
Free Money (Details Inside)
With interest rates hovering near their all-time lows, finding a good yield on an enterprise’s cash has been all but impossible for the past few years. Things have gotten so…
Case Study – Procurement Transformation in the Mid-market (Healthcare)
Since launching Ardent Partners this summer, I have been spending a good deal of time introducing the firm to the different solution providers in the supply management space. One of…
The Future of P2P – Networks
For those that have been following this series, you’ll recall that since we had recently completed an ePayables Primer, the focus of our "Future of P2P" series has been primarily…
The Formula
I find it interesting that Ardent Partners’ recently published research report, Sourcing in the 2010s: The Formula for Success (registration required), is, at its core, a report about spend analysis.…
Monday Morning Query – Can Sourcing be Strategic Without the “e?”
MMQ - Can sourcing be strategic without the “e?” The Context In this day and age, can a sourcing process that eschews process automation be considered a truly strategic process?…
Sourcing – The Formula for Success
We’re pleased to announce that Ardent Partners, a leading analyst firm focused on supply management (and in case you forgot, the partner entity to CPO Rising), has published its first…
The Future of P2P – eProcurement (Part 4)
The “Future of P2P” series continues today with a look at integration. Every time we think we're nearing the end of this series, more ideas keep popping up that we…
Monday Morning Query: Why Aren’t There More RFIs?
The Context Information. We all need it. We all want it. We all use it. It’s so helpful when it’s timely, accurate, and comprehensive – even if it’s never quite…