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Introducing the State of Strategic Sourcing 2015 Research Report!

By Andrew Bartolini November 5, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Ardent Partners is pleased to announce the publication of The State of Strategic Sourcing 2015: The Four Pillars of Sourcing Success report. Interested readers can download this exciting and informative…

ePayables 2015: AP’s Top Challenge in 2015

By Andrew Bartolini November 3, 2015Articles, Process, Strategy, Technology

It is with great pleasure that Ardent Partners announces the publication of its latest state of accounts payable (“AP”) research report—“ePayables 2015: Higher Ground.” Like the annual reports that came…

How to Transform Procurement in Five Steps – Step Two: Processes

By Andrew Bartolini November 2, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Process, Strategy, Technology

Procurement transformation has become a familiar topic here on CPO Rising, particularly over the past couple of years when it has become increasingly clear that what got procurement departments where…

Three Scary Contingent Workforce Management Scenarios

By Christopher Dwyer October 30, 2015Articles, Complex Categories, Events, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy

Tomorrow evening, trick-or-treaters around the world will descend upon their neighborhoods in the great pursuit of candy (or the Great Pumpkin, for those of us that believe in that sort…

Upcoming Webinar: The State of Contingent Workforce Management

By Christopher Dwyer October 29, 2015Articles, Complex Categories, Events, Solution Providers, Strategy

Editor’s note: Today’s article is a sneak peek at next week’s webinar, featuring resident expert and contingent workforce management thought leader, Christopher J. Dwyer, as he takes us through the…

How to Transform Procurement in Five Steps – Step One: People

By Andrew Bartolini October 28, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Lists, People, Strategy

Selectica Rebrands as Determine, Plans to Consolidate Solutions onto One Platform

By Andrew Bartolini October 27, 2015Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

On Friday, October 16, Selectica, Inc, the San Mateo, CA-based provider of supply management solutions, and the parent company of Iasta and b-pack, announced that it has rebranded itself as…

Upcoming Webinar: Digging Deep: Leveraging Contract Analytics to Uncover Hidden Costs, Risks, and Opportunity

By Andrew Bartolini October 26, 2015Articles, Events, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Join Ardent Partners and Seal Software on Wednesday, November 4 at 12:00 PM EST for this free webinar on Digging Deep: Leveraging Contract Analytics to Uncover Hidden Costs, Risks, and Opportunity, which draws on the responses of…

What the Defense Contract Management Agency can Teach us about Better Buying

By Andrew Bartolini October 22, 2015Articles, General, Process, Strategy

In an article from Federal News Radio, it was reported that the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) is seeking to improve and standardize decision making among its geographically dispersed network of buyers,…

How to Transform Procurement in Five Steps – an Introduction

By Andrew Bartolini October 21, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Lists, People, Process, Strategy, Technology

As a researcher, one of the challenges to studying a phenomenon (also known as a dependent variable) is to forego assigning causation to a single independent variable without considering other…