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Technology Round-Up — May 8, 2024

By John Yuva May 8, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, 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…

Technology Round-Up (April 25, 2024) – Coupa and Bottomline Partner on B2B Payments

By Andrew Bartolini April 25, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Events, General, Process, Solution Providers, Technology

Part of the Ardent Partners team made it to Vegas this week for the Coupa Inspire conference. You can expect another article or two covering the briefings, presentations, and conversations…

Magnus Mondays — Make vs. Buy: Procurement Tech Edition

By Magnus Bergfors April 22, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Last week I tackled the question of what to do with a failed P2P implementation. This week I’ll be addressing another common question: Is it a good idea to build…

CPO Rising Listicle: Procurement AI in Action, Part 3

By Andrew Bartolini April 19, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Lists, Process, 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…

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

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

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…