Chief Procurement Officer Archives

NEW WEBINAR: AI In Action – Accounts Payable’s Biggest Innovations (PLUS AP HONORS 2024)

By John Yuva November 27, 2024Best Practices, Event, News, Solutions, Technology, Webinar

Join Ardent Partners and Medius on December 4th (2 PM ET) as they discuss AI In Action – Accounts Payable’s Biggest Innovations (PLUS AP HONORS 2024). This webinar will tell…

NEW WEBINAR: Maximize Your P2P Potential: The Metrics That Drive Results

By John Yuva October 29, 2024Event, Webinar

Join Ardent Partners and Tradeshift on November 7th (9 AM ET) to discuss Maximize Your P2P Potential: The Metrics That Drive Results. Hear directly from Andrew Bartolini, Ardent Partners Founder…

The P2P Blueprint for Success

By Andrew Bartolini October 20, 2021Best Practices, Process, Technology

A successful P2P project can start in many different areas and travel many different paths; but, before an enterprise begins its P2P journey, it should have a sense of where…

Five Procurement Strategies to Unlock Greater Value

By Andrew Bartolini September 4, 2020Best Practices, Process, Technology

The value driven by the average sourcing team over the last decade has, in many cases, been significant and transformative. But, competitive forces at play in a rapidly changing business…

The CPO’s NEW Priorities and How Tax Automation Supports Them

By Andrew Bartolini July 31, 2020Other

(This article was originally posted on CPO Rising by Andrew Bartolini on July 31st, 2020) Ardent Partners’ 15th annual state of procurement study completed earlier this year found that the…

Ardent’s “2K20 Series” – Speaker Spotlight: Jim Bureau, CEO of Jaggaer

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team July 29, 2020OtherNo Comments

In April and May, Ardent Partners hosted The CPO Rising 2K20 Virtual Series – The Resiliency Imperative as a way to bring together our global community of procurement, finance, and supply management…

Procurement’s Impact on Cash Management

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team June 10, 2020Best Practices, Process, Research, Solutions, TechnologyNo Comments

The global uncertainty that pervades today’s market indicates a very real threat of a deep economic downturn. In response, the CFO’s new “hierarchy of needs” has placed a laser focus…

How CFOs Can Build and Nurture Alliances with CPOs

By Andrew Bartolini November 25, 2019Best Practices, Process

In 2019, the duties of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) continue to expand, straddling the traditional areas of financial stewardship and the more progressive areas of strategic and business leadership,…

Three Takeaways from the CPO Rising 2019 Summit

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team November 11, 2019Event

[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…

Uncertain Times Ahead Call for an Improved CFO – CPO Partnership

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team October 7, 2019Best Practices

One never really knows what the coming business environment will hold. We are in the midst or quite possibly at the tail end of one of the longest market expansions…