
Did you miss the recent webinar “2025 Wrapped: Procurement’s Breakthroughs, Setbacks, and Shifts,” featuring Andrew Bartolini, founder and chief research officer for Ardent Partners, and Chahat Sharma, head of customer…
CPO RISING – THE SITE FOR CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICERS & LEADERS IN SUPPLY MANAGEMENT

Did you miss the recent webinar “2025 Wrapped: Procurement’s Breakthroughs, Setbacks, and Shifts,” featuring Andrew Bartolini, founder and chief research officer for Ardent Partners, and Chahat Sharma, head of customer…

Welcome to Procurement News, part of our ongoing aggregate news series covering recent supply management headlines and trends pertinent to Chief Procurement Officers and other procurement leaders! Contact us with…

In our series on supplier management, we have now come to supplier risk. This is one of the most complex areas in the entire procurement technology space because risk management…

Ardent Partners believes that there are “four pillars” that should serve as the foundation for any strategic sourcing program. These are the primary sub-process areas that drive all sourcing activity…

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up series continues this week with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements. If you are a sourcing, procurement, or spend…

Join Ardent Partners and Market Dojo on September 26th (2 PM ET) for a discussion on Sprint to Sourcing Gold: Optimize Your Procurement Strategy. As they prepare to close out…

Three weeks ago, I started a series on the components of supplier management solutions. So far we’ve covered the platform capabilities (i.e., functionalities used across the other components/modules) and Supplier…
Fridays (in 2024) means that it’s time for another CPO Rising Listicle. Each list will include a variety of procurement tips, trends, insights, research, lists, strategies, and/or recommendations designed to help…

Welcome to Procurement News, part of our ongoing aggregate news series covering recent supply management headlines and trends pertinent to Chief Procurement Officers and other procurement leaders! Contact us with…

We are happy to announce the official launch of Ardent Partners’ 2024 Strategic Sourcing Technology Advisor report. This is a report designed to guide sourcing and procurement teams through the…

Fridays (in 2024) means that it’s time for another CPO Rising Listicle. Each list will include a variety of procurement tips, trends, insights, research, lists, strategies, and/or recommendations designed to help…
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