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Guest Article: How to Navigate 2024 with Confidence — Procurement’s “Words of the Year”

By Andrew Bartolini February 16, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

[Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a guest post from Market Dojo, a technology company offering Software as a Service built by procurement professionals, for procurement professionals. Its solutions enable procurement to…

Ivalua NOW 2023 – Dispatch #4: Successfully Unlocking Agility Within Procurement

By John Yuva May 30, 2023Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

The Ardent Partners analyst team descended on Nashville on May 3rd and 4th for the ivalua NOW 2023: Americas conference. This event was well attended and came on the heels…

Best of 2022: Procurement Agility — The Next Frontier in 2022

By Andrew Bartolini January 9, 2023Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Strategy

Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on CPO Rising, we’re publishing some “best of” 2022 articles as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead.…

The Macro-Level Issues Impacting the CPO Right Now: Global Conflict

By John Yuva December 12, 2022Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

Today’s business landscape is rife with unprecedented global conflicts that Chief Procurement Officers must navigate against. As we explore those examples and their impact on supply chain dynamics, it is…

The Macro-Level Issues Impacting the CPO Right Now: Supply Assurance

By John Yuva October 31, 2022Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Strategy

Over the last decade, supply chains have become more extended and complex. Enterprises continue to source a significant portion of raw materials and parts from Asia and other regions of…

Procurement Agility — The Next Frontier in 2022

By John Yuva July 22, 2022Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Strategy

In this week’s segment covering our CPO Rising 2022 Report, we’ll look at the characteristic of “procurement agility” and its criticality to Chief Procurement Officers and enterprises over the last…

Procurement’s Key Value Drivers in the Financial Services Industry

By Andrew Bartolini April 25, 2022Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People

With heightened levels of regulation, competition, and risk, procurement departments in the financial services sector, by and large, are more heavily scrutinized and their performance, and that of their suppliers…

Best of 2021: Procurement and the CPO as Trusted Advisor

By Andrew Bartolini January 13, 2022Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Strategy

Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on CPO Rising, we’re publishing some “best of” 2021 articles as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead.…

How Will Omicron Impact The World Of Business?

By Christopher Dwyer December 1, 2021Articles, Complex Categories, General, People

Stop me if you’ve heard the story before: the world is seemingly out of the clutches of an easily-transmissible variant of the novel coronavirus, there is talk from epidemiologists regarding…

Services Procurement And The Future Of Work: A Conversation With Paul Vincent, Global Head Of Services Procurement At Randstad Sourceright

By Christopher Dwyer August 17, 2021Articles, Complex Categories, General, People, Solution Providers

Last week, Randstad Sourceright announced the appointment of Paul Vincent as its Global Head of Services Procurement. In this Future of Work Exchange feature, Paul joins us to talk about…