Six Strategies to Expand Commercial Card Programs
Leading organizations know that in order to maintain market share and market relevance, they must find strong trading partners with shared or aligned interests and develop a coalition of willing…
2017 Beeline Conference Wrap-Up: Connecting, Learning, Succeeding…and Innovating
During this week’s annual Beeline user conference at the Loews Sapphire Resort in Orlando, the Vendor Management System (VMS) solution’s CEO and president, Doug Leeby, stated that the technology market…
Technology Round-Up – May 4, 2017
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of procurement and supply management solution-provider news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a…
Opportunities for Direct Materials eSourcing
At this year’s SAP Ariba Live, SAP Ariba announced that they are making a strategic push into direct materials management, among other things, in an effort to expand their solution footprint,…
Pumping the Brakes on Blockchain for Procurement
Blockchain, like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cognitive technology, is one of the hottest buzzwords in the tech industry today, and the excitement has spread to supply management. In fact, Blockchain was…
Announcing The CPO Rising 2017: Tools of the Trade Report
I consider myself very lucky in that I really enjoy my work. And, of all of the things that I look forward to each year, working on our annual CPO Rising…
The Future of Work Manifesto, Part II
Editor’s Note: Interested in learning more about the Future of Work and its impact on contingent workforce management? Be sure to subscribe to the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast, the non-employee…
CWM Technology Round-Up – April 27, 2017
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of contingent workforce management (CWM) solution-provider news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are…
Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 138: How Will Artificial Intelligence Impact Contingent Workforce Management?
This week’s all-new edition of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast, sponsored by Shiftgig, tackles one of the most exciting outlets of innovation in today’s business world: artificial intelligence (AI). What…
What Will it Take to Get AP to the “Next Level” of Performance?
In the past, the role of the AP operation focused primarily on data entry and manual activities. But that is changing - today, there is a great opportunity for AP…