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NEW WEBINAR: Scale New Heights: Improve Performance by Optimizing Your Procurement Technology

By John Yuva February 14, 2025Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Events, General, People, Process, 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

By John Yuva December 20, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, 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…

Part Two: Expanding Procurement’s Influence — Bridging Complexity with Orchestration

By John Yuva December 13, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology

Magnus Mondays — Flexibility or Control? Why Not Both?

By Magnus Bergfors November 18, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

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?

By Magnus Bergfors November 4, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, People, Process, Solution Providers, Technology

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

By Magnus Bergfors October 28, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

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

By Magnus Bergfors October 21, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Events, General, People, Process, Solution Providers, Technology

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…

Magnus Mondays — Conferences, Innovations, and Sore Feet

By Magnus Bergfors October 14, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

This time of the year is always full of conferences and last week was certainly a whirlwind! Early Tuesday morning I flew down to Amsterdam for Keelvar Konnect and on…

Magnus Mondays — Zip Forward 2024 — When Procurement Flows, Business Flows

By Magnus Bergfors September 30, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Last week I had the pleasure of attending Zip’s annual user conference Zip Forward. It was hosted at the iconic SF Jazz in central San Francisco. It marked my second…

Ivalua NOW Dispatch #4: Strategic Roadmap (Platform & AI)

By John Yuva August 2, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Events, General, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

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…