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What Can Next-Gen Spend Analytics Do for You? Lots
There may be no greater advantage for the modern enterprise than visibility. Today’s procurement organizations are often under pressure to not only drive down costs while improving category management, but... Read more
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Technology Round-Up – July 12, 2018
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing, procurement,... Read more
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Happy Fourth of July!
From all of us at Ardent Partners to our community, we wish you and yours a happy and safe July 4th holiday. We’ll pick it back up tomorrow but in... Read more
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Technology Round-Up – June 28, 2018
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing, procurement,... Read more
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Spend Data: The “Black Gold” That Sits Within Every Enterprise
In today’s fast-paced and constantly evolving business world, information is king. Many corporate strategies, whether created in the executive boardroom or by the professionals running day-to-day operations, are often fueled... Read more
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Contract Management Solutions: Innovation Drives Collaboration in Procurement
Technology innovation has brought new life to old processes and tools that are familiar to many procurement departments, like contract management. Manual, paper-based processes are out, while automated, digitized systems... Read more
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Technology Round-Up – June 21, 2018
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing, procurement,... Read more
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When Blockchain Meets Supply Chain – June 14, 2018
Every day, solution providers continue to research, develop, and integrate “Industry 4.0” technologies, like 3-D printing, Blockchain distributed digital ledgers, cognitive capabilities, connected devices, and robotics within sourcing, procurement, and payables... Read more
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Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: ISM Refocuses its Global Approach
Ahead of the Institute for Supply Management (ISM)’s 103rd annual conference that was held in Nashville, Tennessee last month, we sat down with Jim Barnes, ISM Managing Director, Customer Engagement,... Read more
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Seven Keys to Better Sourcing and Supplier Management, Part Seven: Proactive and Ongoing Supplier Outreach
As Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) know all too well, how and what you communicate during the sourcing process sets the stage for the resulting supplier relationship. And while that relationship may never... Read more