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How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – Spend Analysis
In the digital age, organizations as a whole and procurement departments in particular swim in data. It is everywhere, spread across an alphabet soup of internal and external systems –... Read more
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ISM 2016: Five Values You Share with Millennials
One of the hottest trends in supply management over the past year has been to discuss the rise of the Millennial Generation and how they are on deck, ready and... Read more
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3 Reasons AP is Vital to Cash Management
Accounts payable (“AP”) in the modern age has the potential to become a hub of financial and operational intelligence for the greater enterprise, pushing this once back-office function into new... Read more
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ISM 2016: Reaching Millennials with Technology
Earlier this month, the Ardent Partners analyst team took the short flight out to Indianapolis to attend the Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) 101st annual conference. For the second year in a... Read more
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Private Equity Firm to Buy SciQuest and Take it Private
On Tuesday, North Carolina-based SciQuest (Nasdaq: SQI), which offers a suite of cloud-based supply management solutions, announced that it has entered into an agreement to be acquired by affiliates of Accel-KKR, an Atlanta and... Read more
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Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 102: Lessons Learned from the Golden State Warriors
Last week, CPO Rising announced that it will produce my new weekly podcast series, Contingent Workforce Weekly (catch up here if you missed last week’s episode). Every Wednesday at noon,... Read more
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How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – A Series Introduction
In the digital age, organizations as a whole and procurement departments in particular swim in data. It is everywhere, spread across an alphabet soup of internal and external systems –... Read more