November 21, 2025
Over the last several weeks, Ardent Partners has gone back in time with its “State of Procurement (A Retrospective)” series, featuring executive insights from its previous State of Procurement reports…
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October 17, 2022
Our “Procurement Experts on CPO Rising” series continues today with an excerpt from my 2021 episode of the Procurement Rising Podcast — Chris Shanahan, Vice President Supply Chain Operations for Thermo Fisher…
October 14, 2022
The Answer Is Obvious. Should your AP department use paper as its main mode of supplier invoicing and payments, or should it leverage the power of automation to create repeatable,…
October 12, 2022
Welcome to Procurement News, part of our ongoing aggregate news series covering recent supply management headlines and trends pertinent to Chief Procurement Officers and other procurement leaders. Contact us with your…
October 10, 2022
Our “Procurement Experts on CPO Rising” series continues today with an excerpt from my 2021 episode of the Procurement Rising Podcast – Bill Cooper, former Associate Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer…
October 7, 2022
Given recent trends toward improving business processes in a bid to increase efficiencies and drive down costs, one wonders why more enterprises have not fully automated their AP processes. This…
October 5, 2022
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up Series returns today with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements. If you are a sourcing, procurement, or spend management solution provider…
October 3, 2022
The Future of Work impacts every workplace in one way or another. Monday’s CPO Rising article explores several trends that the Future of Work Exchange (powered by Ardent Partners) identified…
September 30, 2022
Unfortunately, in addition to the traditional, primarily tactical- related challenges facing AP year after year, Ardent Partners believes there are several new risks on the horizon that could negatively impact…
September 28, 2022
Join the Future of Work Exchange and Ardent Partners on October 6th from 1:00 PM to 2 PM ET for a discussion on The Five Things You MUST KNOW about…
September 26, 2022
The role of procurement is ever-evolving. Chief Procurement Officers are executing strategies in a world wrought with immense volatility and unpredictability. While the scale of disruption is unlike anything witnessed…
