Best of 2014: Alicia Ralston: Sowing the Seeds of Collaboration at ADM
Happy New Year! Our Best of 2014 series continues below: This year we have been working to deliver a “CPO Rising Virtual Roundtable” series, sponsored by IBM. Each of the…
Best of 2014: CPOs in 2014: Doing Better with Same
Editor's Note: This week on CPO Rising, we're publishing five "best of" articles from 2014 as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead. Enjoy! Ardent…
CPO News – December 19, 2014
Former Apple Global Supply Manager to Serve Jail Time for Procurement Fraud It has been a long time coming, but we can finally close the book on Paul Shin Devine,…
CPO Serial: Procurement Outsourcing (Episode 2) – A Business Case is Made
Procurement outsourcing has arrived. It may not be beloved by Chief Procurement Officers, but it is certainly on many of their radar screens. It is a topic that many of…
CPO Serial: Procurement Outsourcing (Episode 1) – It Begins
Many years ago, one very large full-service BPO firm stopped working with me because I told them that procurement outsourcing was not on the radar screen of the average Chief…
Zycus Horizon 2014: A Pot Of Gold
Zycus held its annual user conference, Horizon, earlier this month at the Ritz Carlton on Amelia Island in Florida and it was another very successful event for the supply management…
CPO News – November 19, 2014
Welcome to November's edition of CPO News. We're covering a lot of ground this month, including announcements of Chief Procurement Officers taking the reigns at several companies, several up and…
Procurement Influencer Series: Tim Minahan of SAP Talks About What’s Next for Procurement
I first heard of Tim Minahan, Chief Marketing Officer, SAP Cloud and Line of Businesswhen his job description literally included the term "procurement influencer" in his role as Chief Service…
Zycus Horizon 2014: Ericsson Sourcing in the Networked Society
As we mentioned yesterday, Zycus held its annual user conference, Horizon, earlier this week at the Ritz Carlton in (on?) Amelia Island, Florida and I was pleased to attend. It…
Is Procurement Due for a Black Swan Event?
Throughout the course of business history, there have been events or market shifts that have either positively impacted concepts such as technology and innovation of processes / programs or caused…