Magnus Mondays — Four Things I Want to See in 2025
It’s January of 2025 and we’re back with a new Magnus Monday article! This time of the year there tends to be plenty of predictions flying around, so I thought…
Best Of 2024: Can Amazon “Reshape” the Procurement Industry?
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 ahead.…
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…
NEW WEBINAR: Maximize Your P2P Potential: The Metrics That Drive Results
Join Ardent Partners and Tradeshift on November 7th (9 AM ET) to discuss Maximize Your P2P Potential: The Metrics That Drive Results. Hear directly from Andrew Bartolini, Ardent Partners Founder…
Can Amazon “Reshape” the Procurement Industry?
As one of the few industry analysts with roughly a quarter century focused on and working in procurement, it was surprising to me how little I knew about the multi-billion…
NEW WEBINAR: The State of ePayables 2024: Money Never Sleeps
In a 24/7/365 global business environment, where challenges from economic uncertainty, supply chain disruption, and changing technology continue to grow, cash management has never been more important, and that has…
Magnus Mondays — A Couple of Truths on IM&PPO and S2P Solutions
This summer I’ve done considerable research into the Intake Management and Procurement Process Orchestration (IM&PPO) space. It’s a relatively new and exciting area and an example of the resurgence of…
Ivalua NOW Dispatch #3: Strategic Roadmap (Procure-to-Pay)
The Ardent Partners analyst team recently attended the 2024 Ivalua NOW: Procurement Re-Imaged conference in Miami. This event came on the heels of the company's slightly larger EMEA conference held…
Magnus Mondays — Procurement’s Early Involvement Problem
One of the longest-standing complaints from procurement professionals I’ve heard throughout my 20+ year career is: “we don’t get involved early enough.” The complaint certainly has merit. The earlier sourcing…