Over the past five years, the vast majority of procurement professionals have strived to thrive in less-than-ideal global economic conditions, forced to “do more with less” while pressured to constantly rationalize and evaluate their existing sourcing, contracting, and procurement strategies and tools as a means of delivering increased value across the full scope of their operations.

Within this landscape, the importance of procurement transformation and continual improvement of the larger enterprise is as great as it has ever been.

This Ardent Partners research report will be the first in a two-part series developed to help procurement organizations design, plan, build and execute a proper procurement transformation program and utilize leading-edge strategies to broaden their scope of influence and deliver greater value to the enterprise.