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Technology Round-Up – December 15, 2017
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing, procurement, or spend... Read more
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CPO Rising 2017 Summit Perspectives – Procurement with Purpose, from SAP Ariba
This year’s CPO Rising 2017 Summit featured exciting roundtable sessions where attendees got to exchange ideas and talk about innovative strategies to help improve the performance of their procurement department.... Read more
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Collaborative Sourcing – The Key to Unlocking Greater Value
In recent years, sourcing leaders have been firsthand witnesses to the dramatic impact that globalization and open trade have had on their organizations. These forces have combined to simultaneously expand... Read more
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Supplier News – November 20, 2017
Ardent Partners is pleased to launch a new series today on CPO Rising, “Supplier News,” wherein we feature a few key suppliers that have been recognized over the past few... Read more
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Technology Round-Up – November 16, 2017
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing, procurement, or spend... Read more
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Meet the Speakers of CPO Rising 2017! Welcoming Back CPO Rising Hall of Famer, Hal Good
Ardent Partners is pleased to welcome back Harold “Hal” Good, a lifelong procurement practitioner, procurement “luminary,” and CPO Rising Hall of Famer, to CPO Rising 2017. He will host an Expert Roundtable... Read more
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The Future of Supply Risk Management: Highlights from riskmethods’ 2017 User Conference
A few weeks ago (October 19), a couple analysts (Andrew and Matthew) on the team at Ardent Partners attended riskmethods’ user conference at its headquarters in Boston’s Financial District. As its name indicates,... Read more
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Meet the Speakers of CPO Rising 2017! Welcoming Back John Zagata of Enbridge
Ardent Partners is pleased to welcome John Zagata, Director of Indirect Goods and Services for Enbridge, back to Boston in a week for The CPO Rising 2017 Summit. John will deliver... Read more
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Supplier Information Management – A Key Enabler You Probably Don’t Have
Ardent Partners research consistently finds that suppliers will remain a top focus for Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and their procurement organizations over the next three years. This makes sense since... Read more
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Meet the Speakers of CPO Rising 2017! Introducing Jeffrey Ball, CPO of Digital First Media
Ardent Partners is pleased to welcome Jeffrey Ball, Chief Procurement Officer of Digital First Media, to CPO Rising 2017. Jeff will deliver a presentation entitled “Putting the ‘Strategic’ in Strategic... Read more