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Procurement Performance: Moving Beyond Savings

By Andrew Bartolini March 6, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, People, Process, Strategy

CPO Rising 2017: Tools of The Trade – Ardent Partners conducts an annual procurement-themed market research study each year and this is it. By taking the survey, you have an opportunity to help advance…

The Criteria for Selecting Spend Analysis Technology

By Andrew Bartolini February 21, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Publisher's Note: Today's article is a preview from our recent report, Spend Analysis: The Foundation for Procurement Excellence, sponsored by SpendHQ. Interested readers can download this report by clicking here…

The Growing Interest in Automating B2B Payments

By Andrew Bartolini February 20, 2017Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

While the accounts payable (“AP”) function has long been one of the last bastions of manual processes in an enterprise, we have started to see a small technological evolution that…

How Innovative Supply Management Technologies Create Opportunity for CIOs

By Andrew Bartolini February 13, 2017Articles, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Editor’s Note: This article is the final installment in this series based upon Ardent Partners’ recent report, The CPO and CIO’s New Approach to Evaluating Enterprise Technology (sponsored by Coupa). Click to…

Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 130: Digging into the “Future of Work”

By Christopher Dwyer February 8, 2017Articles, Complex Categories, People, Process, Strategy

Welcome to another edition of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast. Today’s episode can be considered our “definitive” take on the “future of work.” Insights from this week’s podcast include: Ardent’s…

Insights into the Best-in-Class CWM Program: Compliance Matters

By Christopher Dwyer February 7, 2017Articles, Complex Categories, Lists, People, Process, Strategy

If you find value in today’s article, make sure to download our latest State of Contingent Workforce Management research study (click here to check it out). Whether you are interested…

How CIOs and CPOs Learned to Stopped Worrying and Love Innovation

By Andrew Bartolini February 6, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Editor’s Note: This article is based upon Ardent Partners’ recent report, The CPO and CIO’s New Approach to Evaluating Enterprise Technology (sponsored by Coupa). Click to download (registration required). Historically, most Chief…

Spend Analysis: The Foundation for Procurement Excellence (Webinar)

By Andrew Bartolini February 2, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Are you free next Tuesday, February 7 at 2 PM? Join us and SpendHQ for a complimentary webinar on Spend Analysis: The Foundation of Procurement Excellence. Register here! Within the…

Webinar! The ePayables 2017 Technology and Innovation Outlook – Register Here!

By Andrew Bartolini January 24, 2017Articles, Events, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Please join us and U.S. Bank on Thursday, February 1 at 2 PM EST for a complimentary webinar based on our ePayables 2017 Technology and Innovation Outlook report. Click here to…

Announcing the “State of Procurement 2017” Survey

By Andrew Bartolini January 17, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Events, General, Lists, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

I am pleased to announce that the survey for our annual "State of Procurement and the CPO" report is now open. If you have 15-20 minutes to spare today or…