Procurement Influencer Series: Rick Hughes of GEP – Part I
In the procurement and supply management world, Rick Hughes is a seasoned veteran with more than thirty years of service and accomplishments under his belt working with some of the…
What Can Procurement Execs Learn from “Game of Thrones”?
“Knowledge is a weapon…arm yourself well before you ride forth to battle.” From A Storm of Swords, book four of in the A Song of Fire and Ice series It’s…
Three Strategies for Collaborative Sourcing
The speed and complexity of business has been increasing in recent years and shows no sign of slowing down. New geographies and supply markets have opened up; innovative technologies have…
Digging Deeper with Next-Generation Spend Analytics
Today's article is a preview of a report that Ardent Partners recently published entitled, Next-Gen Spend: Accelerating Procurement Performance with Data-Driven Strategies. The report is sponsored by GEP and interested readers can download it here.…
Procurement’s Function at NASA
Over the past several months, Ardent Partners and IBM-Emptoris have worked to bring together several best-in-class chief procurement officers around specific themes with the express aim of garnering the best…
Technology Round-Up – June 26, 2015
Coupa "Inspires" at INSPIRE 2015 Earlier this month, Coupa, the California-based spend and supply management solution provider, held its annual INSPIRE user conference in San Francisco. Ardent Partners' analyst team was…
From Airman to Spaceman: Bill McNally’s Ascent into NASA Procurement
Over the past several months, Ardent Partners and IBM-Emptoris have worked to bring together several best-in-class chief procurement officers around specific themes with the express aim of garnering the best…
Where Do Freelancer Management Systems (FMS) Fit into Today’s CWM Industry?
To say that the contingent workforce industry has evolved considerably over the last decade is underselling the strategic importance of its progression. This isn’t a matter of simple advancements in…
AribaLIVE 2015: Looking to the Future of Business Commerce
[Publisher's Note: Today’s article is an analysis of two similar but separate presentations delivered by Ariba executives at their user conferences this spring. The first was at AribaLIVE in Las…
Two Days With Beeline and the Future of the Extended Workforce
[Editor’s note: Last week, resident contingent workforce management (CWM) expert and Ardent Partners research director, Christopher J. Dwyer, joined Vendor Management System (VMS) provider Beeline for their annual user conference…