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CPO Rising Listicle: Make AP Smarter with Six Recommendations
Fridays (in 2024) means that it’s time for another CPO Rising Listicle. As AP leaders push deeper into 2024, they should remain focused on achieving their top priorities while also keeping... Read more
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Technology Round-Up — February 28, 2024
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up series continues this week with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements. If you are a sourcing, procurement, or spend management... Read more
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Magnus Mondays — Direct Materials Supplier Management Presents a Critical but Disjointed Solution Landscape
In last week’s article, we looked at what makes direct materials special and their unique established requirements, particularly when focusing on eSourcing. In today’s article, we continue to investigate direct... Read more
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Procurement 2024: BIG Prediction – Buyer Beware: “Fake News” Invades Supply Markets
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... Read more
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Procurement News — February 21, 2024
Welcome to Procurement News, part of our ongoing aggregate news series covering recent supply management headlines and trends pertinent to Chief Procurement Officers and other procurement leaders! Contact us with... Read more
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Magnus Mondays — Navigating the Raw Essentials: A Primer on Direct Materials
In one of my articles about suites vs. specialists, I briefly mentioned dedicating a future piece to direct materials. Today’s article will do just that. I’ll look at direct materials... Read more
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Guest Article: How to Navigate 2024 with Confidence — Procurement’s “Words of the Year”
[Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a guest post from Market Dojo, a technology company offering Software as a Service built by procurement professionals, for procurement professionals. Its solutions enable procurement to... Read more
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NEW WEBINAR — How CPOs Can Unlock Financial Value with a Tech-Forward Approach
Join Ardent Partners and GEP on February 29th (2 PM ET) for a webcast on How CPOs Can Unlock Financial Value with a Tech-Forward Approach. The “year of efficiency” that... Read more
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Technology Round-Up — February 14, 2024
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up Series continues this week with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements. If you are a sourcing, procurement, or spend management... Read more
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Magnus Mondays — Contract Lifecycle Management: A Different but Critical Procurement Technology
Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) has come a long way in the last 25 years or so. The technology started as simple databases where some key metadata was collected to enable... Read more