December 12, 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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July 14, 2021
[Editor’s Note: Click here to register to Ardent’s upcoming webinar, Payables Metrics That Maximize Your Buying Power, sponsored by Ivalua.] Establishing and measuring relevant and actionable metrics is an important part of…
July 13, 2021
Ardent recently completed its annual AP-themed market research study, “The State of ePayables 2021: Operating in the New Normal”, which is part of an ongoing dialogue that the Ardent team has had…
July 12, 2021
Ardent recently completed its sixteenth annual CPO-themed market research study, “The State of Procurement & the CPO”, which is part of an ongoing dialogue that my team and I have had with…
July 9, 2021
The United States is at an interesting crossroads in relation to its total workforce: after historic unemployment and severe staffing disruption at a year ago at this time, most labor…
July 8, 2021
Ardent recently completed its annual AP-themed market research study, “The State of ePayables 2021: Operating in the New Normal”, which is part of an ongoing dialogue that the Ardent team and has…
July 7, 2021
Last year, Ardent Partners predicted that the global business landscape would experience a sharp uptick in the utilization of non-employee labor as a direct result of the pandemic’s sweeping impact…
July 6, 2021
Ardent recently completed its sixteenth annual CPO-themed market research study, “The State of Procurement & the CPO”, which is part of an ongoing dialogue that my team and I have had with…
July 5, 2021
From all of us here at Ardent Partners to our community, we wish you and yours a happy and safe July 4th holiday. We’ll pick it back up tomorrow but…
July 2, 2021
Going into 2020, 43.5% of the average company’s workforce was considered “non-employee,” a figure that was vastly larger than it was only several years ago. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated many…
July 1, 2021
With today’s article, we are excited to announce the publication of Ardent Partners’ latest AP research report, “The State of ePayables 2021: Operating in the New Normal”. Over the next…
