Ardent Partners’ Plans for 2013
Regular readers know that this site is published by Ardent Partners, a leading research and advisory firm focused on supply management. With the New Year just around the corner, we…
STEP CHANGE: How Business Networks are Changing the Procurement Paradigm
With all of the recent market activity, it is not surprising that more and more people are talking about and focusing on Business Networks (sometimes referred to as B2B, Supplier,…
CPO Rising’s Plans for 2013
Regular readers know that this site is published by Ardent Partners, a leading research and advisory firm focused on supply management. With the new year just around the corner, we…
P2P Fun and Games
Ahead of the long weekend, we’ll take a break from the supply risk theme and offer up a bit of P2P fun (and games) in the form of today’s article…
CPOs on the Rise in 2011: Calling All Suppliers
So, where were we? Ahh, that’s right – the CPOs on the Rise in 2011 series is back and with a big push coming up we plan to focus on…
RESEARCH SURVEY – Innovative Ideas for the Next Decade (Please Read and React)
It’s favor time again and this one is important to me. Ardent Partners is planning a single market research effort focused on CPOs and other procurement executives in 2011. Starting…
CPOs on the Rise in 2011 – Kirk Eberhart: Directing Direct (Part 2)
In our last article, Kirk Eberhart, our latest CPO on the Rise in 2011, gave us the view from the top of procurement at TMK IPSCO. Kirk reports to the…
The Future of P2P – Networks
For those that have been following this series, you’ll recall that since we had recently completed an ePayables Primer, the focus of our "Future of P2P" series has been primarily…
The Future of P2P – eProcurement (Part 4)
The “Future of P2P” series continues today with a look at integration. Every time we think we're nearing the end of this series, more ideas keep popping up that we…
The Future of Procure-to-Pay – eProcurement (Part 3)
No prelude for part three of this miniseries on the Future of P2P – eProcurement - other than to say part one which looked the key problems and future of…