
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 management…
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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 management…

Business Travel or T&E is my favorite complex category of spend because (a) it is large and has many moving parts and stakeholders, (b) procurement departments with their sourcing strategies…

On the last “Monday morning” of the NFL season, we appropriately end our first season of the Monday Morning Query series where on many Mondays during the NFL season, we…

Happy Groundhog Day! – just kidding The most watched sports event in the United States takes place this Sunday in Dallas – Super Bowl XLV kicks off on Sunday at…

Happy Groundhog Day! 125 years ago today a small group in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, found a groundhog, named him Phil and crowned “Punxsutawney Phil” as the one, “official” weather “prognosticator of…

Dinner, Drinks, and a Movie Roundtable on Sourcing Success – what could be better? One of the first reports that we published at Ardent Partners, Sourcing in the 2010’s: The…

The next five My Predictions for the New Decade Part 2 Next generation supply management solutions will drive advances far beyond those achieved in the last decade. The critical value…

A few predictions for this decade… For many years now, the arrival of every new calendar sends me into a list-making frenzy that consumes several weeks as I work to…

Another big procurement issue is how to collaborate and engage with the business. This article looks at one way strategy that can help achieve both: Today we will focus on…

I’ve said it before: The world is becoming more and more data driven. The enterprise is also becoming more and more data driven – whether it is strategic planning or…

Over the years, my supply management research has, at times, taken a process focus or a technology focus or an industry focus or a regional focus or a role focus.…
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