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Payables Place First Thing: How Much Time is Too Much Time to Spend with Your Suppliers?

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team June 8, 2018Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay

This is actually a trick question…the answer depends on what you are spending your time discussing when you are with your suppliers. This is one of the topics we queried…

Procurement Influencer Series: Steven Bowen, Founder and Chairman, Maine Pointe

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team June 6, 2018Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology1 Comment

Steven J. Bowen is an executive leader with over 30 years of experience in procurement, operations, and manufacturing consulting. In 2004, he founded Maine Pointe, a Boston-based procurement, logistics and…

The Real Value of Today’s Contingent Workforce

By Christopher Dwyer June 5, 2018Articles, Complex Categories, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

The world of work is changing. Transformational thinking is happening within today’s enterprises as the Future of Work, Gig Economy, and other market shifts are occurring. One of the most…

Seven Keys to Better Sourcing and Supplier Management, Part Seven: Proactive and Ongoing Supplier Outreach

By Andrew Bartolini June 4, 2018Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Lists, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

As Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) know all too well, how and what you communicate during the sourcing process sets the stage for the resulting supplier relationship. And while that relationship may never…

Payables Place First Thing: Tradeshift Introduces Supply Chain Finance Using Blockchain Technology

By Andrew Bartolini June 1, 2018Articles, Process, Solution Providers, Technology1 Comment

[Editor’s Note: Last week Ardent’s Chief Research Officer, Andrew Bartolini, and Research Director, Bob Cohen, met with Tradeshift CEO Christian Lanng to discuss his company’s new announcement related to blockchain…

Technology Round-Up – May 31, 2018

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team May 31, 2018Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing, procurement,…

New World of Work, New World of Talent (New Report!)

By Christopher Dwyer May 30, 2018Articles, Complex Categories, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

It is no secret that the world of work is changing…it is evolving. The consumerization of business (and the new platforms that have been developed to support this market shift)…

What’s Cyber Security Got to do with it? Former CIA and NSA Directors Discuss at ISM 2018 – Part II

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team May 29, 2018Events, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

On Day 2 of the Institute for Supply Management’s 103rd annual conference, ISM CEO, Tom Derry, hosted a panel on the topic of cyber security, globalization, and supply chain risk management. The…

Payables Place First Thing: AvidXchange’s B2B Payments Revolution

By Andrew Bartolini May 25, 2018Articles, Events, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology

AvidXchange held its annual user conference, Revolution 2018, in Chicago last week and we both attended the full conference and the pre-conference partner meetings. AvidXchange, a North Carolina-based provider of invoice automation…

When Blockchain Meets Supply Chain – May 24, 2018

By Phil Bartolini May 24, 2018Articles, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Every day, solution providers continue to research, develop, and integrate “Industry 4.0” technologies, like 3-D printing, Blockchain distributed digital ledgers, cognitive capabilities, connected devices, and robotics within sourcing, procurement, and payables…