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Payables Place First Thing: Supply Chain Finance – Creating a Win-Win Situation for Buyers and Suppliers

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 13, 2018Articles, General, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Technology

[Editor's Note: Ardent Partners' State of ePayables 2018 Research Survey is now LIVE. If you are a professional working in Accounts Payable (AP) or Finance, please consider taking this ~15…

NEW SURVEY: The “State of ePayables” 2018 Market Research Study

By Phil Bartolini April 12, 2018Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

Even as other enterprise functions begin to adopt digital transformation strategies, the average accounts payable (AP) unit still faces a more traditional challenge: continuing to automate specific facets of invoice-…

Webinar – CPO Rising 2018: The Age of Intelligence (Register Here!)

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 9, 2018Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

On April 17th, join Andrew Bartolini, founder and chief research officer of Ardent Partners and David Bush, chief revenue officer of SpendHQ, for a complimentary webinar on our annual CPO…

Payables Place First Thing: Top Strategies for P2P Success

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 6, 2018Articles, Lists, People, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

Last week I presented on a webinar with Zycus entitled ‘Design Thinking: Top Strategies for P2P Success’. The webinar contained some excellent practical and useful information that I thought would make for…

Technology Round-Up – April 5, 2018

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 5, 2018Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing, procurement, or spend…

Holistic Strategies and Approaches to Optimize P2P Operations and Performance

By Andrew Bartolini April 4, 2018Articles, General, Lists, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

Leveraging technology to drive business value is an important organizational capability and most procurement departments fare poorly in this regard. Best-in-Class procurement teams have differentiated themselves with superior performance across…

Payables Place First Thing: AP Automation: Beyond Transactional Efficiency

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team March 30, 2018Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

Throughout my career, I’ve worked with hundreds of companies looking to automate their Accounts Payable operations. Typically, the organizations are drowning in paper, suffering from manual, time-consuming, costly, error-prone processes…

The Marketplace is the Future – A Briefing with Tradeshift

By Andrew Bartolini March 26, 2018Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

The research team at Ardent Partners recently met with Tradeshift in its San Francisco headquarters. CEO and Chairman, Christian Lanng led the discussion attended by Chief Strategy Officer, Sarika Garg, Chief Marketing Officer, David Ahrens and other…

Payables Place First Thing: Thoughts from SAP Concur Fusion: Delivering Value to Customers, Growth though the Partner Ecosystem, and Analytics Front and Center

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team March 23, 2018Articles, Events, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology

After spending the better part of last week in Las Vegas at SAP Ariba Live, this week I headed to the beautiful Pacific Northwest to attend the SAP Concur Fusion in Seattle…

New Webinar from Ardent Partners: Top Strategies for P2P Success in the Mid-Market

By Phil Bartolini March 22, 2018Articles, Events, General, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology

The development of a Best-in-Class P2P program takes, among other things, sponsorship, effort, collaboration, vision, expertise, and a supporting technology infrastructure. Superior program design also remains a critical element in…