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Accenture Grows Procurement Services Through Acquisitions

By Andrew Bartolini & John Yuva April 17, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up series continues this week with a focus on Accenture's latest acquisitions and its growth strategy for Procurement Services. If you are a sourcing, procurement, or spend management…

Magnus Mondays — Is Your Application Really the Problem?

By Magnus Bergfors April 15, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

As a long-time procurement technology analyst, one of the most frequent questions posed to me is what solution an organization should pick after a previous failed implementation. Or, in other…

CPO Rising Listicle: Procurement AI in Action, Part 2

By Andrew Bartolini April 12, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Lists, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

It's Friday, which means we're sharing another CPO Rising Listicle. Each list will include a variety of procurement tips, trends, insights, research, lists, strategies, and/or recommendations designed to help procurement teams…

NEW WEBINAR — AI Decoded: What Every CPO Needs to Know

By Andrew Bartolini April 10, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Events, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

Join Ardent Partners and Arkestro on April 24th (2 PM ET) for a webcast on AI Decoded: What Every CPO Needs to Know. In 2024, AI is seemingly “everything, everywhere,…

Magnus Mondays: Zip — One App to Rule Them All?

By Magnus Bergfors April 8, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

We’ve written about intake management and procurement process orchestration (IM&PPO) a couple of times previously. It’s certainly a topic and solution set that is gathering a lot of interest from…

CPO Rising Listicle: Procurement AI in Action, Part 1

By Andrew Bartolini April 5, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Lists, Process, Strategy, Technology

Procurement News — April 3, 2024

By John Yuva April 3, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People

Welcome to Procurement News, part of our ongoing aggregate news series covering recent supply management headlines and trends pertinent to Chief Procurement Officers and other procurement leaders! Contact us with…

Magnus Mondays — GenAI Is Cool, but Should Everything be Automated?

By Magnus Bergfors April 1, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

If you haven’t heard about generative AI (GenAI), or even been pitched some type of it, then you’ve been hiding under a stone. There are dozens of articles describing GenAI,…

Technology Round-Up — March 27, 2024

By John Yuva March 27, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Solution Providers, Technology

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up series continues this week with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements. If you are a sourcing, procurement, or spend management…

Magnus Mondays — Why Is There No “Mega Vendor” in the Procurement Space?

By Magnus Bergfors March 25, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

During my years as an analyst, I’ve heard “We want to be the Salesforce of procurement” many times. Yet, procurement is one of the few spaces that lacks truly dominant…