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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 [...]

As the leaves continue to change color here in New England, we inch closer to the CPO Rising 2018 Summit – Ardent Partners’ third-annual executive symposium for CPOs and P2P professionals. And with just one week left until standard registration pricing ends, we’d like to offer you five great reasons to join us in Boston this November 7 [...]

The first Monday of September in the United States (and Canada) is a federal holiday called Labor Day. According to the US Department of Labor, “Labor Day is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made [...]

As summer turns to fall, like so many leaves will do here in New England, we at Ardent Partners wanted to take a moment to round up and highlight some of the major events we’ve got in store this autumn. With all the excitement over pumpkin spiced-this and cranberry-flavored that, it can be easy to overlook [...]

AvidXchange held its annual user conference, Revolution 2018, in Chicago last week and we both attended the full conference and the pre-conference partner meetings. AvidXchange, a North Carolina-based provider of invoice automation and payment processes for mid-market companies, has experienced phenomenal growth in recent years. That alone doesn’t make it unique since the ePayables market [...]

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Andre Hoddevik, the Secretary General for OpenPEPPOL (Pan-European Public Procurement Online), a European-based, non-profit international association whose purpose is to enable European businesses to easily deal electronically with any European public sector buyers in their procurement processes. Andre will be giving a session on eInvoicing May 8 [...]

After spending the better part of last week in Las Vegas at SAP Ariba Live, this week I headed to the beautiful Pacific Northwest to attend the SAP Concur Fusion in Seattle and wanted to share my thoughts and impressions of the event. The conference was well attended with over 3,000 participants making it one [...]

I spent the better part of last week at SAP Ariba Live in Las Vegas with fellow Ardent Partners’ analysts Andrew Bartolini and Matthew York and wanted to share my thoughts and impressions of the event. The conference was well attended with over 3,200 participants, making it the largest procurement or spend management event in North [...]