The Winds of Change: ISM Prepares to Launch Refreshed CPSM Exam
As summer turns to fall and we prepare for the kids to go back to school, many procurement practitioners are also preparing to hit the books. But just as the…
CPO Rising 2018: Created or Evolved? Defining the Intelligent Procurement Department
Editor's Note: Today's article is a sample from Ardent Partners' latest research report, CPO Rising 2018: The Age of Intelligence (click to register and download). Readers can access all of…
Technology Round-Up – August 9, 2018
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing, procurement,…
Are Your Suppliers Financially Risky? You Oughta Know
Supplier management is a multidimensional, dynamic, and ideally a continuous process that encompasses supplier information, relationship, and performance management, and supply risk management. A considerable part of supply risk management involves training…
Technology Round-Up – August 2, 2018
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing, procurement,…
Nintex: Bringing Intelligent Process Automation to the Masses
Whether you’re a procurement or accounts payable (AP) professional, or you work in the line-of-business, process digitization and automation are effectively table stakes: you need them in order to be…
Technology Round-Up – July 26, 2018
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing, procurement,…
Taking Care of Business: An Interview with Martin Rohde, General Manager of Commercial Customers, Amazon Business
Last month, I spoke with Martin Rohde, General Manager of Commercial Customers at Amazon Business, for an in-depth discussion about Amazon’s B2B marketplace. Our conversation covered the origins of Amazon…
When Blockchain Meets Supply Chain – July 19, 2018
Every day, solution providers continue to research, develop, and integrate “Industry 4.0” technologies, like 3-D printing, Blockchain distributed digital ledgers, cognitive capabilities, connected devices, and robotics within sourcing, procurement, and payables…
“Punching In” to Real-Time Procure-to-Pay with Aquiire
The Ardent Partners team recently participated in a briefing with the executive team at Aquiire to get a general update on the company, its recent successes from the first quarter of 2018,…