
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…
CPO RISING – THE SITE FOR CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICERS & LEADERS IN SUPPLY MANAGEMENT

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…
Today’s article is by Vishal Patel, Research Director, ePayables at Ardent Partners. Ardent Partners has initiated its technology coverage with the launch of the ePayables SMARTSet⢠– a low-cost, comprehensive…
Today is the third article focused on our view of the potential impact that social networking will have in reshaping Supply Management (or B2B or P2P relationships). The first –…
Today’s article continues our discussion of Ardent Partners’ new report that takes a forward-looking view of the top social networking platforms in the context of the work environment and highlights…
There has been a paradigm shift in the way people communicate and interact and, social networks are at the core of this shift. The underlying capabilities and drivers behind the…

Today, our final answer to the question: Do you have any advice for more tenured strategic sourcing teams? What should these teams be doing to prepare for the next 5-10…
Last week, I participated in a webinar – Strategic Imperatives of Procurement: People, Process & Technology – (you can view it by clicking here – registration required) that was sponsored…
Last week, I participated in a webinar (which was really more of a Q&A session than a traditional webinar) that was sponsored by Zycus. This event allowed me to tackle…
Tuesday afternoon I participated in a webinar/Q&A session that allowed me to tackle a series of hot topic questions [I’ll post the archive when it becomes available]. One question that…

(1) An Adoption Roundtrip Over a home-cooked team dinner (asian fusion) at one Chief Procurement Officer’s house this week, I fell into a discussion with a Director of Direct regarding…
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