Chief Procurement Officer

There is now less than one week until The CPO Rising 2018 Summit, Ardent Partners’ annual procurement symposium. Have you registered yet? If you need a little more convincing here are 10 reasons why you should attend: The unmatched lineup of top speakers…Google, Rio Tinto, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Shire Pharmaceuticals, and the list goes on. [...]

We think the CPO Rising Summit is a fantastic opportunity to meet like-minded, career-driven procurement executives, share best practices, and help us all continue to push the profession forward. We’re not the only ones! Here are a few sample quotes from CPOs who have attended in the event: “The technology sponsors are all very interesting, the speakers [...]

Hello There – CPO Rising 2018, Ardent Partners’ third-annual procurement-themed executive symposium, is less than a month away and the standard registration fee is about to expire. We’re expecting more than a hundred supply management leaders and practitioners in Boston on November 7 & 8 for this day-and-a-half-long symposium, and we want you to be among [...]

Heightened volatility and increased business risk have combined with tight and uncertain credit markets to ensure that having cash and maintaining direct access to it will remain a priority of the first order for most finance and procurement leaders over the next few years. This has resulted in a business environment that allows for much [...]

While a fully automated Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process remains the exception and not the rule in today’s market, Best-in-Class procurement departments are keenly aware of the importance of process automation in driving efficiencies and improving visibility into both enterprise spend and the underlying processes of the function. Ardent Partners research finds that Best-in-Class procurement departments automate [...]

Leading Procurement Executives from Flex, Google, Biogen, and More Convene to Share Experiences and Best Practices BOSTON, November 8 — Today, more than 130 Chief Procurement Officers and other procurement executives convened at the historic Harvard Club in Boston to discuss best practices, learn the latest trends, and network and collaborate with like-minded peers. The [...]