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Don’t Miss Out On Your Last Chance to Download The Accounts Payable Metrics that Matter in 2021 eBook

By Phil Bartolini March 31, 2021Articles, General, Procure-to-Pay

This is the last week you will be able to download Ardent Partners’ annual AP-themed eBook, The Accounts Payable Metrics that Matter in 2021. Download the eBook before it’s gone!…

Transforming Procurement in Five Easy Steps

By Andrew Bartolini March 26, 2021Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategy

One of the challenges to studying a phenomenon (also known as a dependent variable) is to forego assigning causation to a single independent variable without considering other potential variables and…

Throwback Thursday: Skills for the Modern Procurement Pro – Category Management

By Andrew Bartolini March 25, 2021Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Strategic Sourcing

[Editor’s Note: We continue our “Throwback Thursday” series with another look at a past entry on the skills needed for today’s procurement leaders.] It’s a great and worthwhile pursuit for Chief…

A Buyer’s Guide to AP Automation – NEW Webinar 4/7

By Phil Bartolini March 24, 2021Articles, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

Ardent’s AP Quarterly Webinar Series, A Buyers’ Guide to AP Automation in 2021, continues Wednesday, April 7th at 2 PM ET. Register Here Join Ardent’s VP of Research, and head of our…

What’s the Next Big Thing in Contingent Workforce Management?

By Christopher Dwyer March 16, 2021Articles, Complex Categories, General, Technology

When I started my industry analyst career (way back in 2006; please, don’t make me feel old!), the contingent workforce was one of several high-profile “complex spend categories,” ones that…

Procurement 2021 Big Predictions – Procurement Performance & Global Supply Chain

By Phil Bartolini March 15, 2021Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Process

While the procurement industry is consistently evolving and shifting, 2021 begins after a truly unprecedented year. In 2020, Chief Procurement Officers and their teams were forced to face massive disruptions, extreme threats,…

Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 528: A Conversation with Doug Leeby, CEO of Beeline

By Christopher Dwyer March 10, 2021Articles, Complex Categories, Contingent Workforce Weekly, General, People, Podcast, Solution Providers

This week’s all-new Contingent Workforce Weekly episode features a conversation with Doug Leeby, CEO of Beeline. Doug and I chat about the solution’s recent news about its extended workforce platform,…

2021: It’s Time for Procurement to Engage

By Andrew Bartolini March 5, 2021Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

“The whole notion of collaboration, both internally and externally, I think, is something that, in procurement, we have to be really religious about. We have to be really militant about…

Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 527: A Conversation with Maria Luoni, President of RightSourcing

By Christopher Dwyer March 3, 2021Articles, Complex Categories, Contingent Workforce Weekly, General, People, Podcast

This week’s all-new Contingent Workforce Weekly episode, sponsored by Beeline, features a conversation with Maria Luoni, President of RightSourcing. Maria and I chat about the evolving world of work, the…

Metrics that Matter 2021: The Rise of the ‘Gig’ Worker and What it Means to Accounts Payable

By Andrew Bartolini March 3, 2021Articles, Complex Categories, General, People, Procure-to-Pay

[EDITOR'S NOTE: For the past three years, Ardent Partners’ Accounts Payable Metrics that Matter has compiled the industry’s best and most widely-used AP/finance industry benchmarks and delivered them in a highly-accessible…