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Meet the Winners of CPO Rising 2018 – Dennis Silva, CPO of BCNET (Innovator of the Year)
Last month at CPO Rising 2018 in Boston, we were very pleased to award Dennis Silva, Chief Procurement Officer at BCNET, British Columbia’s Shared Services organization for higher education, with... Read more
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Technology Round-Up — December 5, 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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Technology Round-Up — November 29, 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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Toward an Intelligent Supply Risk Management Paradigm
Last week, I effectively made a business case for adopting digital, automated supply risk management (SRM) tools, along with supplier information management (SIM) and supplier performance management (SPM) tools in... Read more
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The Business Case for Supply Risk Management in 2019: By the Numbers
There’s a business case to be made for adopting and implementing supply risk management (SRM) tools, as well as supplier performance management (SPM) and supplier information management (SIM) tools. Part... Read more
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Meet the Speakers of CPO Rising 2018! Welcoming Back Gregg Brandyberry, CPO Rising 2016 Hall of Fame Inductee
Editor’s Note: Today on CPO Rising, we revisit the long and illustrious career of Gregg Brandyberry, Senior Advisor at Supplier.ai, and one of three members of the CPO Rising Hall of Fame Charter Class of 2016.... Read more
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CPO Rising 2018 Speaker Profile – David Gallaer, VP – Category Management, MUFG Union Bank
Reporting for Duty One of the great clichés of procurement is that executives and practitioners often “fall” into it, having started out in a hard or social science before wandering... Read more
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Aquiired!! Coupa Buys Aquiire and Gains Real-Time Catalog Search Capabilities
Earlier this week, Coupa Software (NASDAQ: COUP), the San Francisco-based spend management solutions provider, informed us that it has purchased Cincinnati-based Aquiire, the real-time procure-to-pay (P2P) and supplier management solution provider (formerly known as Vinimaya) for an undisclosed sum. Ardent Partners... Read more
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Becoming Anti-Fragile at Bristlecone Pulse 2018
Last week, I had the pleasure to attend Bristlecone’s fifth-annual user conference, Pulse 2018, at the highly esteemed Massachusetts Institute of Technology (where there were no Matt Damon sightings or references... Read more
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Five Best Practices in Supplier Information Management
In the current “Age of Innovation,” businesses are more reliant upon their suppliers than ever before. But, the ability of sourcing and procurement teams to fully optimize their suppliers’ performance... Read more