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Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 340: Season Finale (A Look Back on Season Three)

By Christopher Dwyer June 5, 2019Articles, Complex Categories, General

Welcome to the season three finale of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast, sponsored by Checkr. This week’s episode is a look back on things that we’ve learned over the past…

Technology Round-Up — June 5, 2019

By Andrew Bartolini June 5, 2019Articles, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

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,…

The Link Between SOW/Services Procurement and the Future of Work

By Christopher Dwyer June 4, 2019Articles, Complex Categories, Events, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

The realm of “contingent labor” includes three distinct categories: traditional temporary labor (via staffing suppliers and vendors), “self-sourced” / “directly-sourced” talent, such as independent contractors and freelancers, and “complex contingent…

Monday First Thing: House of Procurement (Part 3) – Performance Measurement

By Andrew Bartolini June 3, 2019Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Strategy

By now, many of you have read our 14th annual CPO Rising 2019 report. If you haven't, it is only available for a few more days so... --> click here…

Help! My Organization is Too Small to Negotiate with Big Suppliers (Guest Post)

By Andrew Bartolini May 31, 2019Articles, Lists, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

[Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a guest publication from UNA. Ardent Partners is happy to review and feature guest publications from authors across the procurement and supply management industry. If…

CPO Rising 2019: Becoming More Agile, Data-Driven, and Intelligent

By Andrew Bartolini May 31, 2019Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Lists, Strategy, Technology

Editor’s Note: Today’s article includes a large excerpt from Ardent’s annual “State of Procurement” research report, CPO Rising 2019: Value Expansion. This report is based upon the responses from more than 300…

The State of P2P 2019 – Webinar Available for Download!

By Phil Bartolini May 30, 2019Articles, Events, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay

In 2019, the procure-to-pay (“P2P”) and finance leaders are well positioned to move beyond providing value to the enterprise based on increased efficiency and more towards becoming an intelligence hub…

Throwback Thursday: Compliance is Good

By Andrew Bartolini May 30, 2019Articles, Process, Strategy

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…

Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 339: How Can Businesses Adapt to the Future of Work?

By Christopher Dwyer May 29, 2019Articles, Complex Categories, General

Welcome to another all-new edition of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast, sponsored by Checkr. This week’s episode poses a critical question: How can businesses adapt to the Future of Work?…

When Blockchain Meets Supply Chain — May 29, 2019

By Andrew Bartolini May 29, 2019Articles, Solution Providers, Technology

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…