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Supply Risk Management: A Best-in-Class Value Driver
While cutting costs, increasing savings, and pulling more spend under management is, collectively, a well-worn path for procurement to drive performance, a road less-traveled is through effective supply risk management (SRM).... Read more
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Technology Round-Up — April 17, 2019
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with an assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing,... Read more
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Monday First Thing: A Brief History of Procurement
In February, 2008, I penned my third annual CPO-focused report which is when I introduced the idea of “CPO Rising” (If you are interested, I found a copy of the... Read more
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When Blockchain Meets Supply Chain – March 20, 2019
Editor’s Note: In 2019, just about everyone in the technology world is talking about and writing about Blockchain distributed digital ledgers, including the supply management world. It’s not the cool... Read more
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Are We Really Headed Towards Recession in 2019?
My wife and I recently met with a real estate agent who, years ago, helped us buy our first home. He’s been representing home buyers and sellers for more than... Read more
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Technology Round-Up — March 13, 2019
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with an assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing,... Read more
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Technology Round-Up — February 20, 2019
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with an assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing,... Read more
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Technology Round-Up — February 6, 2019
After a brief hiatus, CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with an assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If... Read more
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Beyond Savings and Risk: Next-Gen Procurement Analytics are Coming into their Own
Editor’s Note: Today’s article picks up where a previous article, The Rise of Analytics across Procurement Operations, left off last month. There is an enormous amount of value in Big Data,... Read more
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Throwback Thursday: Non-Price Attributes – “Who” is the Supplier?
Publisher’s Note: In 2019, Ardent Partners is celebrating 10 years of delivering “Research with Results” to Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and other readers of this site, including published reports, eBooks, presentations, insights, articles and... Read more