This is the last week you will be able to download Ardent Partners’ annual AP-themed eBook, The Accounts Payable Metrics that Matter in 2021. Download the eBook before it’s gone! The Accounts Payable function has risen in stature, prominence, and impact within the enterprise over the past few years, but the larger opportunities for value [...]
March 31, 2021
Philip Bartolini
Best Practices, Research
We at Ardent Partners take the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic with the utmost seriousness. Accordingly, we have taken organizational precautions to minimize the risk of staff infection and the spread of the virus in our communities, including a 100% virtual work order and a ban on all work travel, including local, until further notice. [...]
March 19, 2020
Philip Bartolini
Best Practices, Process, Research
Ardent’s P2P Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of ePayables, P2P, and B2B payment solution provider news and updates from the past week. If you are an Accounts Payable, B2B Payments, or Spend Management solution provider and you have news to share with us, please drop us a note at editor at cporising dot com. Thanks, [...]
December 13, 2019
Andrew Bartolini
Event, Solutions, Technology
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 [...]
July 12, 2019
Andrew Bartolini
Event, Solutions, Technology
I hope that even casual readers of our sites know that my firm, Ardent Partners, has spent that past decade performing extensive market research in the areas of sourcing/procurement, accounts payable/payments, and contingent workforce/Future of Work. In that time, Ardent has benchmarked thousands of distinct organizations across all aspects of their programs. With such an extensive [...]
May 3, 2019
Andrew Bartolini
Process, Research, Technology
Contact: Andrew Bartolini FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tel.: 617-752-1728 Email: info@ardentpartners.com Date: 04/26/2019 Ardent Partners Announces “CPO Rising 2019: #ValueExpansion” Report Publication Annual Procurement Benchmark Study Reports on the “State of” the Industry, Highlights the Challenges and Opportunities for Procurement to Achieve Next-Level Performance BOSTON — Ardent Partners, the premiere supply management research and advisory firm, is [...]
April 26, 2019
Philip Bartolini
News, Research
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 [...]
April 24, 2019
Philip Bartolini
Webinar
Building a business case for accounts payable (“AP”) automation is a critical part of transforming the invoice management process. Without a detailed business case that can convince stakeholders to invest in automating the AP function, the unit will remain beholden to time-intensive manual processes that drain enterprise resources. Understanding current AP performance is crucial to [...]