Skip to content

CPO RISING – THE SITE FOR CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICERS & LEADERS IN SUPPLY MANAGEMENT

Menu
  • Home
  • About
    • Publisher – Andrew Bartolini
    • CPO Rising
  • Resources
    • Webinar Series
    • Ardent Partners
    • Payables Place (AP & P2P)
    • Future of Work Exchange
  • Contact
  • Subscribe
Winning 2026: The CPO 45-Second Briefing – “Category Management Evolves into Category Intelligence”

Winning 2026: The CPO 45-Second Briefing – “Category Management Evolves into Category Intelligence”

Posted by By Andrew Bartolini February 27, 2026Posted inArticles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Process, Strategy, Technology
Andrew Bartolini, founder and chief research officer for Ardent Partners, has been tracking how procurement evolves for 20 years and publishing an annual report for the past decade to help…
Read More
Analyst Insight – Generation Next: SAP Ariba’s AI Rebuild (II)

Analyst Insight – Generation Next: SAP Ariba’s AI Rebuild (II)

Posted by By Andrew Bartolini February 23, 2026Posted inArticles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology
The recent announcement of “next-gen SAP Ariba,” a complete architectural rebuild of SAP Ariba’s market-leading Source-to-Pay (“S2P”) suite is a major industry event. With availability set for February 2026, this…
Read More
Winning 2026: The CPO 45-Second Briefing – “Permanent Beta Mode”

Winning 2026: The CPO 45-Second Briefing – “Permanent Beta Mode”

Posted by By Andrew Bartolini February 20, 2026Posted inArticles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Process, Strategy, Technology
Andrew Bartolini, founder and chief research officer for Ardent Partners, has been tracking how procurement evolves for 20 years and publishing an annual report for the past decade to help…
Read More
The AI Productivity Dividend: The CPO’s Choice Between Efficiency and Impact

The AI Productivity Dividend: The CPO’s Choice Between Efficiency and Impact

Posted by By Andrew Bartolini February 19, 2026Posted inArticles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Process, Strategy, Technology
We recently published our annual Procurement 2026: BIG Trends and Predictions report. It’s a report I’ve been writing for about a decade that distills months of market data, conversations with…
Read More
Analyst Insight – Generation Next: SAP Ariba’s AI Rebuild (I)

Analyst Insight – Generation Next: SAP Ariba’s AI Rebuild (I)

Posted by By Andrew Bartolini February 17, 2026Posted inArticles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology
The recent announcement of “next-gen SAP Ariba,” a complete architectural rebuild of SAP Ariba’s market-leading Source-to-Pay (“S2P”) suite is a major industry event. With availability set for February 2026, this…
Read More
Announcing The 2026 AP Automation and Payments Technology Advisor Report

Announcing The 2026 AP Automation and Payments Technology Advisor Report

Posted by By Andrew Bartolini February 2, 2026Posted inArticles, Chief Procurement Officers, Solution Providers, Technology
The 2026 AP Automation and Payments Technology Advisor Report - Built for How AP Actually Works The AP automation and payments technology market has never been more crowded or more…
Read More
Ivalua’s AI-Driven Reset for Supplier Management

Ivalua’s AI-Driven Reset for Supplier Management

Posted by By John Yuva January 21, 2026Posted inArticles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology
Last year, Ardent Partners published its Supplier Management Technology Advisor Report: https://lnkd.in/eJdM_FVk, designed to help sourcing and procurement leaders navigate the supplier management solution provider market and select the best-fit…
Read More
Insight to Impact: Synertrade Redefines Supplier Management

Insight to Impact: Synertrade Redefines Supplier Management

Posted by By John Yuva January 16, 2026Posted inArticles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology
Last year, Ardent Partners published its Supplier Management Technology Advisor Report: https://lnkd.in/eJdM_FVk, designed to help sourcing and procurement leaders navigate the supplier management solution provider market and select the best-fit…
Read More
Agentic AI and the Next Evolution of Procurement — From Automation to Autonomous Value Creation

Agentic AI and the Next Evolution of Procurement — From Automation to Autonomous Value Creation

Posted by By John Yuva December 22, 2025Posted inArticles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology1 Comment
Did you miss the recent webinar "From Pilot to Payoff: 5 Strategies to Turn AI into ROI," featuring Andrew Bartolini, founder and chief research officer for Ardent Partners, and Rinus…
Read More
CPO Rising 2025 Series: Procurement’s Top Priorities and Strategies

CPO Rising 2025 Series: Procurement’s Top Priorities and Strategies

Posted by By John Yuva December 19, 2025Posted inArticles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Strategy, Technology
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…
Read More

Posts pagination

Previous page 1 2 3 4 5 … 95 Next page

Join Ardent Partners’ network of CPOs (40,000+) for procurement intelligence, benchmark research, and market insights.
↓

Ardent Partners powering smarter procurement
Categories
Most Popular Tags
Technology (1856) Chief Procurement Officer (1549) CPO (1422) Strategy (1419) Process (1248) People (1119) Solution Providers (1114) Innovation (1079) Ardent Partners Research (941) Complex Categories (640) Christopher Dwyer (618) Contingent Workforce (592) Events (535) Sourcing (520) P2P (510) Ardent Team (485) ePayables (443) Procurement (412) CPOs on the Rise (340) Suppliers (327) CPO Shop Talk (297) Lists (290) Transformation (275) Supply Risk (250) Source-to-Settle (248) CPO Rising Summit (229) Finance (213) Tech Round-Up (198) Contingent Workforce Weekly Podcast (197) Performance (191)
Archives
Follow Us
Copyright 2026 — Ardent Partners Ltd. All rights reserved.
Scroll to Top