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Coupa Inspire 2025: AAA Rating – Autonomous Trade, AI, and Acquisitions

By Andrew Bartolini May 14, 2025Articles, Complex Categories, Events, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Through the years, Ardent Partners has attended every in-person Coupa Inspire, til now anyway (despite our plans, it was not in the cards for us this year). Nonetheless, Coupa Inspire…

Magnus Mondays — Suites, Specialists, and IM&PPO

By Magnus Bergfors March 10, 2025Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

About a year ago, I wrote a series of articles on the topic of suites vs. specialists (click here to read). In today’s article, I return to that topic and…

Magnus Mondays — Do We Need a Sourcing Toolbox?

By Magnus Bergfors March 3, 2025Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Recently, I’ve talked about the need to manage and source more spend— and source it more frequently. And last year, I wrote an article about innovations in sourcing and how…

Magnus Mondays — Let’s Manage More Spend

By Magnus Bergfors February 24, 2025Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

At Ardent Partners, we have researched procurement metrics and performance for almost 20 years (Andrew Bartolini started tracking it before he founded Ardent). One of the key metrics we follow…

CPO Rising Listicle: AI in Action — Procurement, Part 2

By Andrew Bartolini February 21, 2025Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Lists, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

It's Friday, which means we're sharing another CPO Rising Listicle. Each list will include a variety of procurement tips, trends, insights, research, lists, strategies, and/or recommendations designed to help procurement teams…

Magnus Mondays — Build in Agility and Source More

By Magnus Bergfors February 17, 2025Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

The fact we are living in times of uncertainty should not have escaped anyone at this point. It’s been pointed out continually by pundits, with most CPOs aware of it…

Guest Article: Layoffs Haven’t Worked. It’s Time to Try Something New.

By John Yuva January 24, 2025Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

[Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a guest post from Blake Wetzel, CEO of AIQ, a leader in procurement consulting and e-auctions. AIQ provides an end-to-end service, from performing the spend…

Magnus Mondays — Four Things I Want to See in 2025

By Magnus Bergfors January 20, 2025Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

It’s January of 2025 and we’re back with a new Magnus Monday article! This time of the year there tends to be plenty of predictions flying around, so I thought…

Best of 2024: eSourcing 2.0: Making the Case in 2024

By Andrew Bartolini January 8, 2025Articles, General, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on CPO Rising, we’re publishing some “best of” 2024 articles as we reflect on last year and begin tackling 2025. If you missed…

Best of 2024: CPO Rising Listicle: Battle Inflation with Five Smart Strategies

By Andrew Bartolini January 3, 2025Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Lists, People, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on CPO Rising, we’re publishing some “best of” 2024 articles as we reflect on last year and begin tackling 2025. Fridays means that…