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Becoming Anti-Fragile at Bristlecone Pulse 2018
Last week, I had the pleasure to attend Bristlecone’s fifth-annual user conference, Pulse 2018, at the highly esteemed Massachusetts Institute of Technology (where there were no Matt Damon sightings or references... Read more
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Five Best Practices in Supplier Information Management
In the current “Age of Innovation,” businesses are more reliant upon their suppliers than ever before. But, the ability of sourcing and procurement teams to fully optimize their suppliers’ performance... Read more
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Source-to-Settle Transformation: Two Headings — One Destination
“Procurement transformation” has become a common theme for many Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and other procurement leaders who are searching for an advantage in an increasingly competitive and complex business marketplace.... Read more
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Best Practices in Supplier Identification
In an age where enterprises are more reliant upon their suppliers than at any other time in history, it is a fundamental truth that to achieve both procurement success and... Read more
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Technology Round-Up – September 20, 2018
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing, procurement,... Read more
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How Category Intelligence can Drive Procurement Agility on “Buy or No Buy” Decisions (Guest Post)
[Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a guest publication from Beroe Inc. Ardent Partners is happy to review and feature guest publications from authors across the procurement and supply management industry. If... Read more
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Ardent’s Analysis: Coupa Acquires VMS Provider DCR Workforce
Last Tuesday afternoon, leading business spend management and cloud solution provider, Coupa Software, announced that it had acquired the “technology assets” of Vendor Management System (“VMS”), DCR Workforce (“DCR”). Terms... Read more
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Set Your Course for Procurement Transformation
The fact of the matter is that most procurement organizations struggle to do things very well or even consistently well. Certainly there are groups (often referred to by Ardent Partners... Read more
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CPO News – August 28, 2018
Welcome to the summer edition of CPO News! We’d be remiss if we didn’t end the summer sharing some of the higher-profile appointments, promotions, and scandals that occurred in the... Read more
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When Blockchain Meets Supply Chain – August 16, 2018
Every day, solution providers continue to research, develop, and integrate “Industry 4.0” technologies, like 3-D printing, Blockchain distributed digital ledgers, cognitive capabilities, connected devices, and robotics within sourcing, procurement, and... Read more