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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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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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CPO Rising Listicle: Revisiting This Year’s Top Barriers to CPO Success
Fridays (in 2023) means that it’s time for another CPO Rising Listicle. Each list will include a variety of procurement tips, trends, insights, research, lists, strategies, and/or recommendations designed to help procurement... Read more
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Ardent Partners Hires Magnus Bergfors, former Gartner Analyst
[Publisher’s Note: It goes without saying that we’re excited to make today’s announcement. I have known Magnus for more than a decade, first as the primary procurement analyst at rival... Read more
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CPO Rising Listicle: Top Barriers to CPO Success in 2023
Fridays (in 2023) means that it’s time for another CPO Rising Listicle. Each list will include a variety of procurement tips, trends, insights, research, lists, strategies, and/or recommendations designed to help procurement... Read more
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Vendor Management 101: The Basics
In today’s world where globalization and innovation are critical to competitive survival, chief procurement officers rely on supplier specialization more than ever. Never have suppliers been more consequential and with... Read more
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Throwback Thursday: The Visibility Factor – Another Best-in-Class Advantage (for Sourcing)
Today, we’ll deep-dive into the notion of visibility, and the multiple angles of visibility in which Best-in-Class organizations (those top-performing organizations from Ardent’s upcoming “State of Strategic Sourcing” research report)... Read more
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Throwback Thursday: How New or Improved Technologies Can Transform Procurement – Supplier Management
[Editor’s Note: We continue our “Throwback” series with a look at how improved technologies can transform procurement] As Chief Procurement Officers (“CPOs”) and procurement practitioners move forward, they have the... Read more
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Transforming Procurement in Five Steps – Step Five (Part 2): External Stakeholder Engagement
Procurement transformation has become a familiar topic here on CPO Rising, particularly over the past couple of years when it has become increasingly clear that what got procurement departments where... Read more
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Ardent’s “2K20 Series” – The Role of Sustainability in the Post-COVID-19 Supply Chain Session
Ardent Partners hosted The CPO Rising 2K20 Virtual Series – The Resiliency Imperative as a way to bring together our global community of procurement, finance, and supply management professionals and collectively tackle... Read more