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Skills for the Modern Procurement Pro – Contract Management

By Andrew Bartolini May 27, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategy, Technology1 Comment

Leading Chief Procurement Officers love to invest in their people. So, in that vein, we will be analyzing the key skills and capabilities (or higher-level competencies) that a procurement professional…

The Future of Procurement (Podcast)

By Andrew Bartolini May 19, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Technology

Rachel Spasser, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Ariba and I recently recorded a podcast where we discussed the future of procurement. The podcast was moderated by Dana…

Proactis to Acquire Intesource

By Andrew Bartolini May 16, 2014Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

Note: Andrew Bartolini contributed to this article. Late last month, UK-based Proactis announced its plan to acquire US-based Intesource in a deal totaling $3.9 million (of which Proactis will fund…

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…

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…