Technology Round-Up — April 10, 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,…
Monday First Thing: Managing Strategic Suppliers
I attended SAP Ariba LIVE last week and an interesting issue arose related to supplier relationship management as well as a business stakeholder's ability to identify and properly partner with…
Four Reasons to be Bullish on the Economy in 2019
Last month, I recalled a recent meeting with a real estate agent in which he challenged the popular (although paradoxically, also unpopular) opinion that the U.S. and or global economy…
Throwback Thursday: Corporate Culture and its Impact on Technology Adoption (2)
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…
Monday First Thing: Early Excerpts from CPO Rising 2019
We're hard at at work on our 14th Annual CPO Rising Research Report and expect to publish it shortly. As I noted earlier in the year, it is Ardent's view…
The AP Metrics that Matter in 2019: Contested Payments
Where does the procure-to-pay (“P2P”) process begin? The answer probably depends on who you ask. Some will say sourcing is the starting point, others will say procurement, and still others…
Throwback Thursday: Corporate Culture and its Impact on Technology Adoption (1)
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…
How Far Can We Apply Industry 4.0 to Procurement?
Industry 4.0, as it has been called, is the next phase of manufacturing. By its namesake, it is the fourth industrial revolution representing not just the digitization and automation of…
Avoiding Digital Disaster
If you missed yesterday's webinar, The Procurement Leader's Guide to Digital Transformation, you missed a really interesting presentation (if I do say so, myself) and a scintillating discussion with the…
Throwback Thursday: CPO Shop Talk – Career Transitions: A Sign of the Times
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…