Magnus Mondays — Do We Need a Sourcing Toolbox?
Recently, I’ve talked about the need to manage and source more spend— and source it more frequently. And last year, I wrote an article about innovations in sourcing and how…
Magnus Mondays — Let’s Manage More Spend
At Ardent Partners, we have researched procurement metrics and performance for almost 20 years (Andrew Bartolini started tracking it before he founded Ardent). One of the key metrics we follow…
NEW WEBINAR: Scale New Heights: Improve Performance by Optimizing Your Procurement Technology
Join Ardent Partners and Zip on February 26th (2 PM ET) as they discuss Scale New Heights: Improve Performance by Optimizing Your Procurement Technology. Getting to the next level of…
Part Three: Expanding Procurement’s Influence — Connecting Strategy, Users, and Technology
Did you miss Ardent Partners' recent webinar, Cast a Wider Net: Leveraging Innovation to Expand Procurement’s Influence and Impact, that shed light on how procurement can deliver greater value by focusing on…
Best of 2024: Magnus Mondays — Why Is There No “Mega Vendor” in the Procurement Space?
Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on CPO Rising, we’re publishing some “best of” 2024 articles as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year…
Part Two: Expanding Procurement’s Influence — Bridging Complexity with Orchestration
Did you miss Ardent Partners' recent webinar, Cast a Wider Net: Leveraging Innovation to Expand Procurement’s Influence and Impact, that shed light on how procurement can deliver greater value by focusing on…
Magnus Mondays — Flexibility or Control? Why Not Both?
For the last decade or so, the go-to solution for automating the Procure to Pay (P2P) process has been … wait for it … P2P suites. The P2P process covers…
Magnus Mondays — Feature, Product, or Company?
When I joined Ardent Partners a year ago, my very first article was about the proliferation of procurement solutions. My experience at the DPW conference and, perhaps to a lesser…
Magnus Mondays — Services and CoEs in a Next-Gen Procurement Tech World
During the last couple of weeks, I’ve attended a few great conferences (shoutout to Zip, Keelvar, DPW and SAP). Several discussions and observations from these conferences point to how the…
Magnus Mondays — SAP Spend Connect: Data, Intelligence, and Suite
I spent last week in Las Vegas attending SAP Spend Connect. Spend Connect is the evolution of the old Ariba Live and now covers the entirety of SAP Intelligent Spend…