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December 9, 2019
After a century of slow progression, procurement has become a strategic business function in roughly a generation’s time. The move from the back office was not trivial, and the transformation…
December 6, 2019
Welcome to the winter edition of CPO News! Over the past several months there have been some higher-profile appointments and promotions that occurred in the procurement world, and we wanted…
December 5, 2019
Publisher’s Note: In 2019, Ardent Partners is celebrating 10 years of delivering “Research with Results” to Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and other readers of this site, including published reports, eBooks, presentations, insights, articles and…
December 4, 2019
Welcome to another all-new edition of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast. This week’s episode features a conversation with Marc Husain, Managing Director at VectorVMS. Marc and I discuss the one-year…
December 4, 2019
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with an assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing,…
December 3, 2019
Ardent Partners defines the “Future of Work” as the optimization of work, accomplished via the transformation of business operations, talent, and seamless and holistic solutions, as well as flexible enterprise…
December 2, 2019
The accounts payable (AP) industry is consistently evolving and shifting, forcing AP and finance professionals across the globe to prepare for change and innovation in technology, business regulations, and the…
November 29, 2019
Attention Shoppers! The day after Thanksgiving in the US has long been known as Black Friday, the dark name for what is generally considered the biggest shopping day of the year…
November 28, 2019
Whether you’re watching parades, football, or the dog show, or you’ve invited your family over to discuss/argue about politics (click here for a thoughtful “how-to” piece from Maggie Koerth at…
November 27, 2019
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with an assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing,…
