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Best of 2024: Magnus Mondays — Navigating the Raw Essentials: A Primer on Direct Materials

By Magnus Bergfors December 23, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on CPO Rising, we’re publishing some “best of” 2024 articles as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead.…

Part Three: Expanding Procurement’s Influence — Connecting Strategy, Users, and Technology

By John Yuva December 20, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Did you miss Ardent Partners' recent webinar, Cast a Wider Net: Leveraging Innovation to Expand Procurement’s Influence and Impact, that shed light on how procurement can deliver greater value by focusing on…

Best Of 2024: Can Amazon “Reshape” the Procurement Industry?

By Andrew Bartolini December 18, 2024Articles, Events, General, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on CPO Rising, we’re publishing some “best of” 2024 articles as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead.…

Best of 2024: Magnus Mondays — Why Is There No “Mega Vendor” in the Procurement Space?

By Magnus Bergfors December 16, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on CPO Rising, we’re publishing some “best of” 2024 articles as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year…

Magnus Mondays — Random Winter Rants

By Magnus Bergfors December 2, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Here in Sweden, we are heading into the winter months, with our first snow occurring last week. As we get closer to the holiday season, I thought I’d treat you…

Magnus Mondays — When Procurement Tech Projects Fail

By Magnus Bergfors November 25, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Strategy, Technology

A big IT project has been all over the news in Sweden recently. Two regions (a region is a fairly large public entity that is responsible for public healthcare and…

Magnus Mondays — Flexibility or Control? Why Not Both?

By Magnus Bergfors November 18, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

For the last decade or so, the go-to solution for automating the Procure to Pay (P2P) process has been … wait for it … P2P suites. The P2P process covers…

What Does “Team” Mean for Procurement in a FOW-Led World?

By John Yuva November 15, 2024Articles, Complex Categories, General, Process, Strategy

What does the concept of “team” mean for procurement in today’s remote and hybrid enterprises? Many workplaces continue to operate with dispersed teams. With the criticality of teamwork to execute…

Magnus Mondays — Why Not Generative AI?

By Magnus Bergfors November 11, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Strategy, Technology

Like most of us in the procurement tech world, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about generative AI (GenAI) lately. While some critical voices have started to make themselves heard,…

CPO Rising Listicle: Best-in-Class AP Operations Benefit the CFO in Six Ways

By Andrew Bartolini November 8, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy

Fridays (in 2024) means that it’s time for another CPO Rising Listicle. Each list will include a variety of procurement tips, trends, insights, research, lists, strategies, and/or recommendations designed to help…