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Advanced Sourcing and Procurement Technologies: Optimization-based Sourcing Tools

By Andrew Bartolini November 18, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

Ardent Partners’ recent research report, Sourcing and Procurement: The 2016-2017 Technology and Innovation Outlook Report, chronicles the evolution of sourcing and procurement technologies over the last two decades to where they are today and…

Advanced Sourcing and Procurement Technologies: “Moneyball for Procurement”

By Andrew Bartolini November 11, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Publisher's Note: We should note that the concept of "Moneyball for Procurement" was introduced to the world by Jacob Larsen of Maersk at the CPO Rising 2016 Summit in Boston last…

CPO (Virtual) Roundtable: Make Spend Management a Business Imperative

By Andrew Bartolini October 31, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Hear from "3 CPOs" in an amazing roundtable discussion on Wednesday, November 9 at 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET! Learn the strategies that three Best-in-Class CPOs used to transform their departments. CPO…

CPO News – October 28, 2016

By Andrew Bartolini October 28, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategy, Technology

Caroline Tissot Named Chief Group Procurement Officer at AccorHotels AccorHotels, a Paris, France-based multinational hotel group that operates hotels in 94 countries, announced that Caroline Tissot has been named Chief Group…

Webinar! Transforming Procurement through Agility, Collaboration, Technology, and Real-Time Data

By Andrew Bartolini October 24, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

If you're a Chief Procurement Officer or supply management leader, we must ask: what will your organization look like in three to five years? Do you know what steps you need to…

How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – eProcurement

By Andrew Bartolini October 7, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Technology

In the digital age, organizations as a whole and procurement departments in particular swim in data. It is everywhere, spread across an alphabet soup of internal and external systems –…

Dispatch from IBM Empower 2016

By Andrew Bartolini October 6, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Events, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Ardent's analysts attend dozens of conferences each year. Typically our coverage of an event lags the event by days (and sometimes, unavoidably, by weeks), but our research objective/goal is not…

Innovation Continues to Drive the Evolution of Procurement Technology (Report Preview!)

By Andrew Bartolini October 4, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

Ardent Partners’ latest and greatest technology-focused research, Sourcing and Procurement: The 2016-2017 Technology and Innovation Outlook Report! Click here to download, has published and is now available to download. Click here to get your…

The Trends (and Benefits) of Cloud-Based Technology Adoption: CPOs Take Notice

By Andrew Bartolini October 3, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Strategy, Technology

As we discussed in our latest report, Cloud-based solutions are revolutionizing the way that enterprises conduct business. These web-based versions of common business tools, like analytics or document management tools,…

Bridging the Procurement-HR Gap in Managing “Services Procurement”

By Christopher Dwyer September 30, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, People, Process, Strategy

"You can't really understand another person's experience until you've walked a mile in their shoes." As procurement continues to gain traction within the enterprise and manage more spend, Chief Procurement Officers and their teams must become stronger…