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2024 AP Honors Profile: Novartis and ORO Labs Partner Transform Supplier Management with Supplier 360

By John Yuva February 11, 2025Best Practices, Process, Technology

The second-annual AP Honors Ceremony celebrated the accounts payable profession and recognized excellence in the field. During the ceremony, Ardent Partners presented awards for outstanding performance and execution in the…

Part Three: Unlocking the Future of Accounts Payable — Compliance Advancements Powered by AI

By John Yuva January 30, 2025Event, Process, Technology, Webinar

If you missed the recent “AI in Action — Accounts Payable's Biggest Innovations” webcast hosted by Ardent Partners and Medius, it showcased the transformative power of AI within in accounts…

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…

Compliance – Embrace It, Don’t Fear

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team June 15, 2020Best Practices, Process, Research, Solutions, Technology

Some hear the word ‘compliance’ and embrace it, others hear the word and fear it. ‘Compliance’ is a concept that haunts nearly many professional across the greater enterprise, no matter…

Is Your Procurement Team Best-in-Class? Four Key Enablers for Success (Webinar)

By Philip Bartolini July 22, 2019Best Practices, Webinar

[Editor’s Note: Join us tomorrow, July 24 at 12pm ET, for a complimentary webinar presentation entitled “Is Your Procurement Team Best-in-Class? Four Key Enablers for Success” (click to register), sponsored…

The Metrics that Matter in 2019

By Andrew Bartolini May 3, 2019Process, Research, 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,…

Top Trends and Value Drivers for AP and Procurement: Automate and Collaborate

By Philip Bartolini March 20, 2019Best Practices, Process, Research

The way enterprises do business has changed significantly over the past 15 years, and these shifts – in communication technologies, in business-to-business (B2B) commerce, and in financial tools, among others…

Monday First Thing: Collaboration in AP, as in Politics, Is the Way to Achieve Real Success

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team January 14, 2019Best Practices, Research

Much has been in the news lately about what happens when two groups cannot, or will not work with one another to solve (major) pressing issues. Most of us are…

The Metrics that Matter: Strategies to Empower a More Intelligent AP Department

By Philip Bartolini December 12, 2018Process, Research, Technology

[Editor’s Note: In Ardent’s “Supply Management Metrics that Matter in 2018” (click to download), we discuss the supply management industry’s best and most widely used metrics that can inform and…