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Chief Procurement Officers in 2014: Procurement’s Convergence with Cash Management

By Andrew Bartolini August 22, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Technology

Ardent Partners’ annual CPO Rising research report is now available. I called this year’s report, CPO Rising 2014: Convergence and it presents a comprehensive, industry-wide view into what is happening in the…

Chief Procurement Officers in 2014: Doing Better with Same

By Andrew Bartolini June 18, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategy, Technology

Ardent Partners recently published our annual CPO Rising report (entitled CPO Rising 2014: Convergence) and the focus of this report is exactly geared towards the readers of CPO Rising (CPOs and those who…

Procurement’s CWM Responsibilities

By Christopher Dwyer June 16, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, People, Technology

Welcome to the first article in a series that will examine which internal unit owns responsibility for the vast array of intricate attributes of contemporary contingent workforce management. Today’s article…

Procurement’s Evolution (Part IV): Convergence with Contingent Workforce Management

By Andrew Bartolini April 16, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, General, Process, Strategy

Ardent’s State of Contingent Workforce Management report (available for complimentary download here, here, or here) features a variety of groundbreaking concepts and ideas, one being the industry’s very-first official Contingent…

Instant Analysis: SAP Announces Plans to Acquire Fieldglass

By Christopher Dwyer March 26, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Earlier today, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) announced its intent to acquire Vendor Management System (VMS) provider Fieldglass, one of the world’s leading platforms for managing contingent labor and other types…

What Every Executive Should Know About Business Networks

By Andrew Bartolini March 17, 2014Articles, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology

This is your final chance to participate in our annual AP market research study - click here to take the survey. All participants get a free copy of the final…

“We have no specific procurement goals.”

By Andrew Bartolini March 13, 2014Articles, General, People, Strategy

In the early days of the firm, I did a regional tour to visit different procurement organizations to get their feedback on my plans for CPO Rising and Ardent Partners.…

Procurement’s Evolution, Part III: Convergence With Marketing

By Christopher Dwyer March 7, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, General, Process, Strategy1 Comment

Today, we continue our series that highlights procurement’s (and the chief procurement officer’s) evolving influence within the greater enterprise. Each of these articles will tackle a business function or enterprise…