The Real Value of Spend Analytics
At its core, spend analysis systems offer a fundamental series of benefits that can positively impact the procurement organizations that choose to leverage these solutions, including: Spend visibility – The…
NEW WEBINAR – Five Strategies to Increase Procurement Intelligence (and Performance)
Ardent Partners’ Webinar Series Five Strategies to Increase Procurement Intelligence (& Performance) Click Here to Register CPO in 2021 are facing greater pressure to hit or exceed performance targets amidst a…
Next-Generation Spend Analysis: Digging Deeper
If you read my article last week, I talked about how the next path to procurement performance improvement will be blazed with the next generation of spend analytics and data-driven…
Next-Gen Spend: Accelerating Procurement Performance with Spend Analytics
There may be no greater advantage for the modern enterprise than visibility. Today’s procurement organizations are often under pressure to not only drive down costs while improving category management, but…
Procurement 2021 Big Trends: Technology is the Linchpin to Procurement Operations
While the procurement industry is consistently evolving and shifting, 2021 begins after a truly unprecedented year. In 2020, Chief Procurement Officers and their teams were forced to face massive disruptions,…
Procurement 2021 Big Prediction – Big Data & AI Make Major Impacts
While the procurement industry is consistently evolving and shifting, 2021 begins after a truly unprecedented year. In 2020, Chief Procurement Officers and their teams were forced to face massive disruptions,…
20 for 2020: Key Providers in the 2020s – SirionLabs
Earlier this year, we initiated the first of our planned 20 for 2020 series’ as an echo to the 10 for 2010 series that we used to launch this site. That first 2020 series…
The Art and Science of Big Data Management
Perhaps more than ever, CPOs will need catalysts to drive their teams to the next level of performance. Ardent Partners’ 2020 procurement research asked 340 CPOs to identify the “game-changers” that will…
Monday First Thing: The Intersection of Data and Sourcing
Thank you to everyone who has taken our annual CPO Rising survey - we've decided to close the survey tomorrow night so if you have 12-13 minutes (average survey taker time),…
Payables Place First Thing: Intelligent AP – Maximizing Big Data
The emergence of innovative technologies in recent years has the potential to radically alter the way business is done. And, as enterprises intensify their focus on optimizing internal processes, modern…