Ardent Partners has conducted more procurement market research studies than any other firm or consultancy in the industry. Over the last decade, Ardent has benchmarked, surveyed, and interviewed thousands of distinct organizations across all aspects of their procurement operations. If you work in procurement

Are you under increasing pressure from your CFO and the wider business to deliver sourcing benefits from complex direct spend? Do competing demands on your time mean you barely have enough capacity to keep the plant running, let alone address issues such as lack of visibility over spend, poor strategic

For all the ‘buzz’ about AI, it is really just an approach that brings together two elements that procurement is very familiar with: information and analytics. Add business objectives to the mix, and you are poised to benefit from what we think of as artificial intelligence. When we