events

Another all-new edition of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast features a conversation with Rob Israch, Chief Marketing officer of global payables automation solution Tipalti. Rob joins me to discuss why payments (and payment management) are so critical in the face of incredible contingent workforce and freelancer growth. Rob and I chat about why payments are linked to the candidate [...]

[Editor’s Note: Our colleague at Ardent Partners, Matt York, wrote an excellent column last week highlighting three key takeaways from our CPO Rising Summit in Boston and I thought his insights would be valuable to share on PayablesPlace as well. Two weeks ago, delegates, speakers, and supply management solutions providers descended upon the historic Harvard [...]

Park City, Utah is home to majestic mountain views, great skiing, breath-taking hiking (literally), and bountiful wild game. It hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics, and very recently, it hosted Zycus‘s Analyst Day retreat, only the second in the company’s 20-plus year history. As a refresher, Zycus is a New Jersey-based provider of source-to-settle procurement solutions, and offers source-to-contract (S2C), procure-to-pay [...]

Coupa Inspire was held last week, June 24-27 in Las Vegas at the chic Cosmopolitan Hotel and Conference Center. Ardent Partners’ analyst team was in attendance. During the conference, Coupa Software, the San Mateo, California-based provider of end-to-end spend management applications for the cloud, made many announcements  — most relating to its family of B2B payments applications, Coupa [...]

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Todd Albers, Senior Payments Consultant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis about creating a framework to address E-Invoicing in the United States. Todd will be giving a session on this topic on May 14th at the Exchange Summit Conference in Miami and I thought this would [...]

Ardent’s “State of Procurement” webinar (click to register!) is our annual look into the procurement function, analyzing the current capabilities in the areas of people, process, and technology. We also take a close look at the role of the Chief Procurement Officers (CPO) and the level of engagement and alignment this leader has within the enterprise today, as well [...]

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Iris Martinez, Delivery of Services and Technology Director for Latin America, based in Mexico, for Pearson, about her experiences and lessons learned from implementing      e-Invoicing in Latin America (LATAM). Iris will be presenting a user case study on this topic on May 15th at the Exchange [...]

A few weeks ago, delegates, speakers, and supply management solutions providers descended upon the historic Harvard Club of Boston for Ardent Partners’ third-annual CPO Rising procurement executive summit. The Ardent team had arrived the day before to set up shop, greet sponsors and early arrivals, and steady ourselves for yet another whirlwind day-and-a-half procurement event here [...]

Ardent Partners’ CPO Rising 2018 Summit was held on November 7 and 8 at the historic Harvard Club of Boston in the city’s posh Back Bay district. And while the event is over, the team at Ardent Partners is still going over all of the great presentations and discussions of which we were a part. This year, Ardent had [...]

[Editor’s Note: It’s “CPO Rising Week”, and the Ardent Partners research team is highlighting the great agenda and speakers from the CPO Rising 2018 Summit. If you were unable to join us at the Summit, have no fear, you can attend our complimentary webinar Voice of the CPO: Highlights from the CPO Rising 2018 Summit, [...]