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Skills for the Modern Procurement Pro – Supply Market Knowledge

By Andrew Bartolini May 15, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy1 Comment

This year, I was invited to present (twice!) at the annual ISM conference in Las Vegas. My presentations are part of the "Emerging Practitioner" track designed to help younger procurement professionals…

Three Tactical CWM Capabilities That Matter

By Christopher Dwyer May 14, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, People, Process, Technology1 Comment

The contemporary scope of contingent labor dictates that enterprises seek a new wave of strategies, solutions, and approaches to manage all avenues of the Contingent Workforce Management Framework. Programmatic attributes…

Skills for the Modern Procurement Pro – The Sourcing Process

By Andrew Bartolini May 13, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy1 Comment

The State of the Chief Procurement Officer in 2014

By Andrew Bartolini May 12, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, Process, Technology

I recently published my annual CPO Rising report and I think our regular readers will be very interested in it. The report presents a comprehensive, industry-wide view into what is…

The 360-Degree CWM Program: A Primer

By Christopher Dwyer May 9, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, People, Process, Technology

“Evolution” is a common term around CPO Rising, as many of the industries covered here on the site, be it ePayables or supply management, are currently undergoing a transformation within…

Tracking the Evolution of the VMS Platform

By Christopher Dwyer May 7, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, Solution Providers, Technology

Discussions regarding contingent workforce management (CWM) technology are frequent here at CPO Rising, and often revolve not only around the benefits and results that enterprises achieve by utilizing these solutions,…

Ardent Partners Publishes Annual State of Procurement Report

By Andrew Bartolini May 5, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Ardent Partners’ annual CPO Rising research report is now available. Entitled, CPO Rising 2014: Convergence and authored by Ardent’s Chief Research Officer, Andrew Bartolini, this report presents a comprehensive, industry-wide…

Technology Round-Up – May 2, 2014

By Andrew Bartolini May 2, 2014Articles, General, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

Announcement from the Publisher I am pleased to announce that next week CPO Rising will officially start publishing articles on a daily basis (weekdays, that is). This is something we've…

Taking a 360° Approach to Supplier Management

By Andrew Bartolini April 30, 2014Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

Ardent Partners has just published a new report focused on Supplier Management. The fact is that while meeting suppliers is not particularly difficult, finding the rights ones and managing them…

CPO News – US Court Strikes Down Conflict Minerals Provision, Upholds Others

By Andrew Bartolini April 22, 2014Articles, General, Process

On Monday, April 14, a U.S. Appellate Court struck down key provisions of the landmark 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act requiring many American companies to declare…