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Sailing Downstream: Why Source-to-Settle Defines Procurement Transformation in 2015 (Webinar)

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team February 13, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

For sure, enterprises as a whole and procurement teams in particular can log significant financial and operational improvements through implementing basic strategic sourcing processes, such as spend analysis, sourcing/ eSourcing,…

ePayables: Big Trends & Predictions for 2015 (Webinar)

By Andrew Bartolini February 4, 2015Articles, Events, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Ardent Partners research over the past five years has shown that the use of B2B electronic payments (ePayments) is on the rise, having captured the attention of finance and AP…

Best of 2014: P2P Metrics that Matter

By Andrew Bartolini December 30, 2014Articles, General, Lists, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy

Editor's Note: This week on CPO Rising, we're publishing five "best of" articles from 2014 as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead. Enjoy! The…

Using Spend Under Management Principles to Drive Improved Financial Performance

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team December 22, 2014Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

[A note from the editor: In August, Andrew posed the question - How Do You Define Spend Under Management? - to our audience and invited them to share their views because we…

CPO Serial: Procurement Outsourcing (Episode 2) – A Business Case is Made

By Andrew Bartolini December 18, 2014Chief Procurement Officers, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy

Procurement outsourcing has arrived. It may not be beloved by Chief Procurement Officers, but it is certainly on many of their radar screens. It is a topic that many of…

Technology Round-Up – December 16, 2014

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team December 16, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

SAP Completes Concur Acquisition for $8.3 Billion On December 4, global software provider SAP AG (NYSE Ticker – SAP) announced that it had completed its $8.3 billion acquisition (or $129 per…

CPO Serial: Procurement Outsourcing (Episode 1) – It Begins

By Andrew Bartolini December 11, 2014Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy

Many years ago, one very large full-service BPO firm stopped working with me because I told them that procurement outsourcing was not on the radar screen of the average Chief…

Sourcing: The Second Strategic Sourcing Pillar

By Andrew Bartolini December 9, 2014Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

In case you missed our earlier announcement, Ardent Partners’ The State of Strategic Sourcing 2014: Connecting the Dots has been published and interested readers can find the report here and here. In…

Zycus Horizon 2014: A Pot Of Gold

By Andrew Bartolini November 21, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, People, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

Zycus held its annual user conference, Horizon, earlier this month at the Ritz Carlton on Amelia Island in Florida and it was another very successful event for the supply management…

Technology Round-Up, November 13, 2014

By Andrew Bartolini November 13, 2014Articles, Events, People, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

Horizon 2014: Zycus Delivers Zycus’ 3rd annual user conference, Horizon, was held this week at the Ritz-Carlton in (on?) Amelia Island, Florida, starting this past Sunday and continuing through Tuesday…