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Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 102: Lessons Learned from the Golden State Warriors

By Christopher Dwyer June 1, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, People, Process, Technology

Last week, CPO Rising announced that it will produce my new weekly podcast series, Contingent Workforce Weekly (catch up here if you missed last week’s episode). Every Wednesday at noon,…

How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – A Series Introduction

By Andrew Bartolini June 1, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

In the digital age, organizations as a whole and procurement departments in particular swim in data. It is everywhere, spread across an alphabet soup of internal and external systems –…

Miss Any of These Events This Spring? Catch Up, Today!

By Andrew Bartolini May 30, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Events, General, Solution Providers, Technology

Editor's Note: It's been a busy few months here at Ardent Partners, and the Memorial Day Weekend has given us a chance to pause and reflect on the ground that…

Fraud Prevention (2) – CPO Strategies

By Andrew Bartolini May 27, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Lists, People, Process, Strategy

Today, we follow up on our last article, which discussed procurement fraud and Apple’s bad apple, Paul Shin Devine, who has been accused of taking more than $1 million in illegal kickbacks from the…

eSourcing: Five Lessons Learned from Gregg Brandyberry

By Andrew Bartolini May 25, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, Lists, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Today on CPO Rising, we highlight the long and illustrious career of Gregg Brandyberry, President of Rapid Deployment Procurement Excellence, Inc., and one of three members of the CPO Rising Hall of Fame Charter Class of…

How to Counter the “Unknown Unknowns” in Supply Risk Management

By Andrew Bartolini May 20, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Strategy

Some of the most interesting facets of supply risk management revolve around the unknown – what could happen, under what circumstances, what the impact could be, and what to do…

Gregg Brandyberry: Profile of a CPO Rising Hall-of-Famer

By Andrew Bartolini May 18, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

Today on CPO Rising, we highlight the long and illustrious career of Gregg Brandyberry, President of Rapid Deployment Procurement Excellence, Inc., and one of three members of the CPO Rising Hall…

New Webinar – CPO Rising 2016: The Art and Science of Procurement

By Andrew Bartolini May 16, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

As our readers know, CPO Rising is the name of this website, but it is also the name of both our annual CPO research study and event. Well, I am…

CPO News – May 13, 2016

By Andrew Bartolini May 13, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People

Wai Mun Wong Named VP of Global Supply Management at Carlson Wagonlit Travel Late last month, Hospitalitynet.org reported that Wai Mun Wong had been named Vice President of Global Supply…

CPO Rising 2016 Recap: The CEO’s View of Procurement

By Andrew Bartolini May 11, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, Lists, People, Process, Strategy, Technology1 Comment

On Day 1 of Ardent Partners’ inaugural CPO Rising procurement executive summit, Louie Psallidas, President and CEO of Uno Restaurants, delivered a keynote presentation entitled, “The CEO’s View of Procurement:…