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How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – A Series Introduction

By Andrew Bartolini June 1, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

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 –…

ISM 2016: Talking Growth with Tom Derry

By Andrew Bartolini May 31, 2016Articles, Events, General, People, Solution Providers, Strategy, 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…

Fraud Prevention (2) – CPO Strategies

By Andrew Bartolini May 27, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Lists, People, Process, Strategy

Today, we follow up on our last article, which discussed procurement fraud and Apple’s bad apple, Paul Shin Devine, who has been accused of taking more than $1 million in illegal kickbacks from the…

eSourcing: Five Lessons Learned from Gregg Brandyberry

By Andrew Bartolini May 25, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, Lists, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Today on CPO Rising, we highlight the long and illustrious career of Gregg Brandyberry, President of Rapid Deployment Procurement Excellence, Inc., and one of three members of the CPO Rising Hall of Fame Charter Class of…

The Value of Change Management for Accounts Payable

By Andrew Bartolini May 24, 2016Articles, Events, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy

Changing a business process is not an easy task; it takes a significant amount of time and effort to first motivate stakeholders to want to change, and then to actually…

How to Counter the “Unknown Unknowns” in Supply Risk Management

By Andrew Bartolini May 20, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Strategy

Some of the most interesting facets of supply risk management revolve around the unknown – what could happen, under what circumstances, what the impact could be, and what to do…

Webinar! It Pays to Pay Electronically: What Does Paperless Mean to You?

By Andrew Bartolini May 19, 2016Articles, Events, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

For many in Procurement and Accounts Payable, going paperless cuts out a lot of the pain associated with manual processing. ePayments are often described as a digital easy button. But…

Gregg Brandyberry: Profile of a CPO Rising Hall-of-Famer

By Andrew Bartolini May 18, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

Today on CPO Rising, we highlight the long and illustrious career of Gregg Brandyberry, President of Rapid Deployment Procurement Excellence, Inc., and one of three members of the CPO Rising Hall…

New Webinar – CPO Rising 2016: The Art and Science of Procurement

By Andrew Bartolini May 16, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

As our readers know, CPO Rising is the name of this website, but it is also the name of both our annual CPO research study and event. Well, I am…

Coupa Inspire 2016: Coupa Expands Solution Suite Across Supply Management Ecosystem

By Andrew Bartolini May 16, 2016Articles, Complex Categories, Events, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

For the past 10 years, Coupa has focused on what it calls “Value-as-a-Service,” which has taken the form of a desire to drive value for its customers. This focus was…