Best-in-Class Supplier Management, Part II
Our “Summer of Sourcing” is picking up steam, we hope you’re enjoying it. The research today is based upon our analysis performed for the State of Strategic Sourcing 2013 report…
Best-in-Class Supplier Management, Part I
Our “Summer of Sourcing" is picking up steam, we hope you're enjoying it. One apex this summer will be when we cap off this week's stories with the publication of…
Throwback Thursday: Skills for the Modern Procurement Pro – Supplier Performance Management
[Editor’s Note: We continue our “Throwback Thursday” series with another look at a past entry on the skills needed for today’s procurement leaders.] It’s a great and worthwhile pursuit for Chief…
Five Best Practices in Supplier Information Management
In the current “Age of Innovation,” businesses are more reliant upon their suppliers than ever before. But, the ability of sourcing and procurement teams to fully optimize their suppliers’ performance…
Talking Supplier Collaboration, Innovation, and Risk Management with Sue Welch, CEO of Bamboo Rose
Ardent Partners’ research analyst and editor at CPO Rising, Matthew York, recently interviewed Sue Welch, CEO of Bamboo Rose, a Boston-area digital marketplace that connects retail companies, suppliers, and third…
Supplier Information Management – A Key Enabler You Probably Don’t Have
Ardent Partners research consistently finds that suppliers will remain a top focus for Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and their procurement organizations over the next three years. This makes sense since…
Supplier Performance and Risk Management – Bosom Buddies
Ardent Partners research consistently finds that suppliers will remain a top focus for Chief Procurement Officers (“CPOs”) and their procurement organizations over the next three years. This makes sense since…
How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – Supplier Performance Management
In the digital age, organizations as a whole and procurement departments in particular swim in data. It is everywhere, spread across an alphabet soup of internal and external systems –…
How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – Supplier Information Management
In the digital age, organizations as a whole and procurement departments in particular swim in data. It is everywhere, spread across an alphabet soup of internal and external systems –…
Supplier Performance Management: The Fourth Strategic Sourcing Pillar
Over the past month, Ardent Partners has featured analysis from The State of Strategic Sourcing 2014: Connecting the Dots, which is now out and available. Interested readers can find the report here and here. This research…