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Coupa Inspire 2025: AAA Rating – Autonomous Trade, AI, and Acquisitions

By Andrew Bartolini May 14, 2025Articles, Complex Categories, Events, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Through the years, Ardent Partners has attended every in-person Coupa Inspire, til now anyway (despite our plans, it was not in the cards for us this year). Nonetheless, Coupa Inspire…

Magnus Mondays — Zip Forward Europe 2025: Risk Orchestration in the Limelight

By Magnus Bergfors April 7, 2025Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, Process, Solution Providers, Technology

Last week, I had the pleasure of attending Zip’s inaugural European version of its user conference, Zip Forward. Held in London, the one-day event hosted more than 200 attendees from…

Happy New Year!

By Andrew Bartolini January 1, 2025Articles, Events

Happy New Year! To commemorate the occasion (and for “auld lang syne”), we will continue to reprise a few of our favorite articles from the last year. After that, we…

Best Of 2024: Can Amazon “Reshape” the Procurement Industry?

By Andrew Bartolini December 18, 2024Articles, Events, General, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on CPO Rising, we’re publishing some “best of” 2024 articles as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead.…

Happy Thanksgiving!

By Andrew Bartolini November 28, 2024Articles, General

Whether you're watching parades, football, or the dog show, everyone at Ardent Partners wishes you a safe and Happy Thanksgiving! If you need a laugh, enjoy this clip of the…

Magnus Mondays — Conferences, Innovations, and Sore Feet

By Magnus Bergfors October 14, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

This time of the year is always full of conferences and last week was certainly a whirlwind! Early Tuesday morning I flew down to Amsterdam for Keelvar Konnect and on…

Can Amazon “Reshape” the Procurement Industry?

By Andrew Bartolini October 4, 2024Articles, Events, General, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

As one of the few industry analysts with roughly a quarter century focused on and working in procurement, it was surprising to me how little I knew about the multi-billion…

Happy Labor Day!

By Andrew Bartolini September 2, 2024Articles, Events, General

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…

Magnus Mondays: Ivalua Now 2024 — All in On Generative AI

By Magnus Bergfors March 18, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Events, Future of Work, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Last week I attended my first solution provider conference (as an analyst) since COVID-19. Ivalua hosted the European edition of Ivalua Now in beautiful Versailles just outside Paris. According to…

Procurement 2024: BIG Prediction – Buyer Beware: “Fake News” Invades Supply Markets

By Andrew Bartolini February 23, 2024Articles, Events, General, People, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

For more than a decade, Ardent Partners’ senior analyst team has gathered in Boston for a multi-day company strategy and planning meeting. The team dedicates itself to reviewing the prior…