The Art and Science of Procurement Performance
Our ongoing Throwback Thursday series that looks at the 15 annual CPO/State of Procurement reports that I have written continues today with another look at CPO Rising 2016: The Art and…
The Present and Future of ePayables – Webinar Today 10/14
The modern Accounts Payable (“AP”) function sits at a fascinating juncture in its overall evolution: enhance just enough to survive in the years ahead, or, revolutionize its development to truly…
AP: Rising to the Challenge of a New Decade
In the 2020s, the accounts payable (“AP”) profession will continue to gain momentum and impact business operations and results in an increasingly strategic way. The global uncertainty that pervades today’s…
The CPO’s Approach to Supply Risk
Ardent Partners, the established leader in supply management market research, has identified unprecedented levels of risk across the vastly complex and highly interconnected supply chains that drive and support the…
The Future of Total Talent Management
Back in 2016, I wrote and developed a research study called The Modern Guide to Total Talent Management, which included this passage: The very simple argument for building or developing…
Becoming Data-Driven in Accounts Payable
Due to the rise of business process automation tools, cloud-based applications, mobile solutions, and connected devices permeating the modern business environment, more data is being created each year than ever…
Procurement Metrics that Matter in 2020 (New Webinar)
Join Ardent Partners on September 17th at 2 PM ET for our Procurement Management Metrics that Matter webinar, sponsored by Corcentric. The disruptive days of 2020 have placed Chief Procurement Officers…
CPO News — September 9, 2020
Welcome to the (end of) Summer edition of CPO News! Over the past couple months there have been some higher-profile appointments and promotions that occurred in the procurement world, and…
(Throwback Thurs) B2B Payments: The Impact of ePayments on Current AP Processes
[Publisher's note: Ardent Partners new report is now available - 2020 B2B Payments Technology Landscape please click here - Request the report (practitioners with business email only) today!] Each year, Ardent Partners conducts…
Procurement Metrics for the New Decade (New Webinar)
There is significant uncertainty, disruption, and risk within procurement teams, as well as within their extended supply chains. Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) find themselves at the end of a bull market,…