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How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – Supply Risk Management

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team September 15, 2016Articles, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

In the digital age, organizations as a whole and procurement departments in particular swim in data. It is everywhere, spread across an alphabet soup of internal and external systems –…

CPO News – September 2, 2016

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team September 2, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People

PSEG Names Brian Clark VP of Procurement On August 22, Newark, New Jersey-based PSEG Services Corp. announced that it has named Brian Clark as its newest Vice President of Procurement,…

Exostar: Enhancing Security for Source-to-Settle Solutions

By Andrew Bartolini August 22, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

The Ardent Partners analyst team recently sat down with Tim Zullo, Senior Director, Sales & Marketing, and Mark Hogan, Product Manager, of Exostar, a provider of secure, cloud-based solutions for heavily-regulated industries. The two executives…

Five Ways to Manage Procurement Risk with Contract Management

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team July 1, 2016Articles, Events, Lists, Process, Strategy, Technology

Editor's Note: I was recently reminded of a conversation I had at AribaLive in Las Vegas earlier this year with a former colleague who also happens to be a lawyer.…

How to Counter the “Unknown Unknowns” in Supply Risk Management

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team May 20, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Strategy

Some of the most interesting facets of supply risk management revolve around the unknown – what could happen, under what circumstances, what the impact could be, and what to do…

Throwback Thursday: Fraud Prevention (1) – Avoiding the Bad Apples

By Andrew Bartolini May 5, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategy

Editor's Note: In the spirit of "Throwback Thursday," we're bringing our audience this gem from all the way back to the summer of 2010, Ardent's first summer. It's been some…

Technology Round-Up – April 28, 2016

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 28, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

IQN Partners with Bartech Group on Workforce Management Solutions On April 13, IQN, a Colorado-based provider of contingent workforce management (CWM) solutions, announced that it has "extended and expanded" its partnership…

CPO Rising 2016 Recap: Preparing for and Managing Through Global Supply Risk

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 26, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, Process, Strategy, Technology

On Tuesday, March 29th, attendees at CPO Rising 2016: the Agility Agenda, got to hear former CPO, procurement “luminary”, and CPO Rising “Hall of Fame” inductee, Harold “Hal” Good deliver…

CPO Rising 2016 Recap: Managing Supplier Risk in a Tough Global Climate

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 19, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, Process, Strategy

On Tuesday, March 29th, we had the pleasure of hearing Robert “Bob” Kane speak at the CPO Rising 2016 Summit here in Boston. He delivered a fascinating breakout presentation on Supply Chain Risk:…

A CPO and a Diplomat’s View of Supply Risk Management

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 15, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, Process, Strategy

One of the realities of the modern business environment is that Chief Procurement Officers ("CPOs") and their teams increasingly must dive into the murky and ever expanding waters of supply…