Is your organization ready to take on indirect spend?

This quiz goes through some of the key procurement strategies and technology capabilities that you need to successfully tackle indirect spend. To get your grade – just answer the questions below, tally them up, and discover if your organization has what it takes.


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Technologies for a New Frontier in Indirect Spend

Technology innovations, especially those driven by advancements in consumer buying, social technology, and big data management, can now be applied to pull together the complex web of suppliers, intangible deliverables, and inconsistent pricing and processes of indirect spend. These readily available technologies can meaningfully simplify the buying experience while optimizing other aspects of indirect spend cost such as supplier fees, terms and conditions, performance specifications, and performance management. If executed correctly, optimizing indirect spend adds...

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How to deliver world class procure-to-pay performance

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Ardent Partners’ CPO Rising 2019 Report: #ValueExpansion

Finding new sources of value is a primary focus for many procurement organizations in 2019. As most of the quick & easy wins have already been identified, innovative approaches will drive these new value sources. Finding these catalysts, building them out, and constructing different ways to leverage these new value drivers is the focus of Ardent Partners' CPO Rising 2019: #ValueExpansion report. What you’ll learn: The current state of procurement & how it has changed...

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