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NEW WEBINAR – Defining the Characteristics of Best-in-Class P2P

By Phil Bartolini September 23, 2021Articles, General, Procure-to-Pay

Ardent Partners’ Webinar Series Defining the Characteristics of Best-in-Class P2P Best-in-Class AP and P2P organizations enjoy a compelling advantage over their peers across all major performance benchmarks. They also achieve…

Now Accepting Nominations for CPO Honors 2021

By Phil Bartolini September 14, 2021Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People

Ardent Partners is excited to announce that it is now accepting nominations for the sixth-annual CPO Honors The sixth annual CPO Honors Ceremony is an opportunity to celebrate the procurement…

The 2021 Procurement Benchmarks – Part 2

By Andrew Bartolini August 30, 2021Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General

Ardent’s analysis in this report determined Best-in-Class procurement performance by identifying the top 20% of performers in the spend under management metric. As a group, they have placed, on average,…

The 2021 Procurement Benchmarks

By Andrew Bartolini August 23, 2021Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General1 Comment

The 2021 Procurement Benchmarks represent the performance and operational results of the average procurement department in the market today. The percentage of spend under management at the average enterprise sits…

Procurement 2021: The Best-in-Class Advantage

By Phil Bartolini August 2, 2021Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Process

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…

Ardent’s “2K20 Series” – Maximizing Spend Management with AP Automation Session

By Phil Bartolini December 14, 2020Articles, General, Procure-to-Pay, Technology

Ardent Partners hosted The CPO Rising 2K20 Virtual Series – The Resiliency Imperative as a way to bring together our global community of procurement, finance, and supply management professionals and collectively tackle…

Best-in-Class AP in the Age of Intelligence

By Andrew Bartolini December 10, 2020Articles, General, Procure-to-Pay

Businesses and consumers today are fully engulfed by technology and the data it creates and captures. The same holds true for AP departments across the globe. Accounts payable’s “Big Data”…

Countdown to the CPO Honors 2020 Ceremony…

By Andrew Bartolini September 25, 2020Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People

Today’s article is a friendly reminder that there are only three weeks left to nominate your favorite CPOs, procurement leaders and teams for their performance. On November 17th, Ardent Partners…

REMINDER – Submit Nominations for CPO Honors 2020

By Phil Bartolini August 14, 2020Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, Solution Providers

Today’s article is a friendly reminder that this fall, Ardent Partners will recognize Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs), their teams, and a select group of industry experts and providers for outstanding…

The Resiliency Imperative – Maximizing Spend Management with AP Automation & Data (Session 5)

By Phil Bartolini April 9, 2020Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy

[Note: Ardent Partners’ new webinar, Maximizing Spend Management with AP Automation and Data, is part of the CPO Rising 2K20 Virtual Series and scheduled for today at 2 pm is available…