Ardent Partners’ Monthly Webinar Series
CPO Rising 2025: Navigating Global Uncertainty & Unlocking an AI-Driven Future
Tuesday, April 29th @ 2:00 PM ET
Over the past two decades, procurement has undergone a dramatic transformation, evolving from a tactical, cost-cutting function into a strategic powerhouse that enables business resilience, drives savings and innovation, and helps build competitive advantage. The CPO’s journey has been marked by financial crises, a global pandemic that created far-reaching supply chain disruptions, geopolitical instability, and rapid digitalization. Through it all, procurement has remained at the forefront—navigating complexity, mitigating risk, and delivering measurable value.
This year, Ardent Partners analysts are authoring their 20th annual State of Procurement report at what could be the beginning of a fundamentally new world era. Yet, CPOs are steadfast, standing at the helm of a major hub of business intelligence and business results, guiding their teams through uncertainty while shaping the future of procurement and the global supply chain.
In 2025, businesses are navigating a storm that is far from perfect, built upon an uncertain foundation of economic, business, and trade uncertainty including persistent inflation, supply chain fragility, and escalating geopolitical conflicts—all set against the backdrop of rapid technological disruption and shifting global trade dynamics. At the same time, a technological revolution is unfolding. Intelligent, AI-driven procurement is becoming a reality — offering the promise of higher levels of efficiency, intelligence, and agility.
This webinar reflects on two decades of dramatic CPO progress but remains focused on the here and now, presenting a comprehensive, industry-wide view of what is happening in the world of procurement and capturing the experience, performance, perspective, and intentions of 326 CPOs and other procurement executives. The webinar enables procurement teams to gain insight into best practices and ultimately improve their operations and performance.
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Procurement Metrics that Matter in 2025
Thursday, June 12th @ 2:00 PM ET
Procurement results matter, and in 2025, they will matter more to the enterprise measuring metrics to help track results. Businesses focus on measuring their revenues and profits because they matter. These numbers are critical to employees, shareholders, customers, and suppliers alike, and represent the final “score” of a game played last quarter or last year.
Join us on June 29th as Ardent Partners celebrates the 20th Anniversary of its world-premiere findings from its latest research effort, which is part of the ongoing dialogue that Ardent Partners has had with CPOs and other procurement leaders. While addressing the general competencies and capabilities of procurement organizations today and top strategies and tactics that leading CPOs are using to combat deep-set uncertainty, it also introduces the procurement industry’s “metrics that matter,” including the latest Best-in-Class metrics.
During this exclusive webinar, Ardent Partners analysts Andrew Bartolini & Magnus Bergfors plus Paul Blake, a GEP executive and procurement expert with decades of experience, will discuss the procurement metrics that matter in 2025.
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