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CPO Rising 2018: The Strategic, Tech-Centric CPO

By Andrew Bartolini July 17, 2018Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Strategy, Technology

Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners is pleased to present the thirteenth installment of our annual benchmark procurement research study, CPO Rising 2018: The Age of Intelligence, and make it available for download (click the…

CPO Rising 2018: The Intelligent CPO

By Andrew Bartolini July 10, 2018Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, People, Process, Strategy3 Comments

Happy Fourth of July!

By Andrew Bartolini July 4, 2018Articles, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

From all of us 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 in…

New Webinar – The Future of AP is Now!

By Phil Bartolini July 3, 2018Articles, Events, General

Join us on Tuesday, July 11 at 2pm ET for a complimentary webinar presentation on our latest market research report, “The State of ePayables 2018 The Future of AP is Now,” sponsored…

The Dawn of a New Age — the Age of Intelligence (New CPO Rising Report is Out!)

By Andrew Bartolini July 3, 2018Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Editor's Note: Ardent Partners is pleased to present the thirteenth installment of our annual CPO Rising benchmark procurement research study, CPO Rising 2018: The Age of Intelligence, and make it available for…

The State of ePayables 2018: AP’s Transformational Journey

By Andrew Bartolini July 2, 2018Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

Editor's Note: Today’s article is a preview of Ardent Partners’ latest accounts payable (AP) research report, “The State of ePayables 2018: The Future of AP is Now”, which is available for download here.…

The State of ePayables 2018: It’s Time to Say Goodbye to Paper Checks

By Andrew Bartolini June 29, 2018Articles, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology

Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published our annual AP-themed report, The State of ePayables 2018: The Future of AP is Now. Today’s article is part of an on-going series focused on the…

Contract Management Solutions: Innovation Drives Collaboration in Procurement

By Andrew Bartolini June 26, 2018Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Lists, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Technology innovation has brought new life to old processes and tools that are familiar to many procurement departments, like contract management. Manual, paper-based processes are out, while automated, digitized systems…

A New Era of Work Optimization: A Foundation for the Future of Work

By Christopher Dwyer June 25, 2018Articles, Complex Categories, Lists, Process, Strategy, Technology

Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a small slice of the new Future of Work Compendium research study. The new report was developed to serve as a “guidebook” for those organizations…

Payables Place First Thing: Exceptions are Meant for Learning, Not Repeating

By Andrew Bartolini June 22, 2018Articles, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy

Last week I discussed ‘Taking Accounts Payable to the Next Level’ and transforming the accounts payable (“AP”) function from a tactical operation to a strategic one. I spoke about leveraging…