CPO News – April 2, 2018
Welcome to the Spring 2018 edition of CPO News! There are lots of stories to cover today, so grab yourself a cup of coffee and ease into the week with…
Payables Place First Thing: AP Automation: Beyond Transactional Efficiency
Throughout my career, I’ve worked with hundreds of companies looking to automate their Accounts Payable operations. Typically, the organizations are drowning in paper, suffering from manual, time-consuming, costly, error-prone processes…
Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 234: The Impact of Culture on the Future of Work
This week’s all-new edition of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast, sponsored by ZeroChaos, focuses on how both corporate and workplace culture directly impacts the adoption of Future of Work-era innovations,…
Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 233: Conversation with Gordon Burnes, Chief Marketing Officer of Bullhorn
Welcome to another all-new edition of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast, sponsored by ZeroChaos. This week’s podcast features a discussion with Bullhorn CMO, Gordon Burnes, as well as a quick…
Procurement 2018 Trends & Predictions Roundtable Discussion – Part I
A few weeks ago, I shared with you some of the BIG procurement trends that we at Ardent Partners, in conjunction with our sponsors, Beeline and Ivalua, shared on our…
SAP Ariba LIVE 2018– Refocusing on the Network and Driving Growth
As many readers know, my relationship with SAP and Ariba began 18+ years ago when I worked for the then SAP partner and primary Ariba rival, Commerce One. I later…
Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 232: Listener Mailbag Edition (March)
This week’s episode of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast (sponsored by ZeroChaos) is the “listener mailbag” edition for the month of March. Topics discussed include: How the procurement function can…
Procurement’s Place in the Continued Evolution of Contingent Workforce Management
Editor’s Note: Learn more about Chris’ takes on procurement’s role in contingent workforce management by downloading the new State of Contingent Workforce Management research study. And, be sure to register…
A Tale of Two Procurement Departments
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief,…
Payables Place First Thing: Why Doesn’t Accounts Payable Get the Recognition it Deserves?
I’ve been working with Accounts Payable (“AP”) professionals for almost 15 years now, and it never ceases to amaze me how infrequently they get the recognition and credit they wholeheartedly…