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ISM at 100: Conflict Minerals Compliance – Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Ardent Partners’ analyst team attended the 100th annual Institute for Supply Management (ISM) conference in Phoenix a couple of weeks ago. Risk, in many of its forms, was a regular topic throughout the... Read more
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ISM at 100: Robert Gates on Global Stability and Supply Risk
[Editor’s note: the views expressed by Dr. Robert Gates do not necessarily reflect the views of Ardent Partners or its employees. Our goal with this piece is to present a... Read more
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The Next Generation of Procurement: The Millennials Have Shown Up to Work
[Editor’s Note: we’re publishing today’s article to coincide with ISM’s 100th annual conference that is currently being held in sunny Phoenix, Arizona. Andrew Bartolini and I are in attendance with... Read more
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CPO News – April 22, 2015
Carnival Corporation Appoints Julia M. Brown as First Chief Procurement Officer On March 25, Carnival Corporation (NYSE: CUK), the world’s largest travel and leisure brand, announced that it has appointed Julia M.... Read more
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Spend Analysis & Sourcing: Connecting the Sourcing Dots for Greater Value
I recently exchanged notes with a colleague who commented that recently, CPO Rising seems to have been very focused on operational procurement and complex spend management over the past month... Read more
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Breaking News: Basware to Acquire Procserve for EUR 25.9 Million
On Wednesday, April 8, Basware, the Finland-based provider of procure-to-pay (P2P) and e-invoicing solutions, announced that it has signed an agreement with Procserve to acquire the UK-based public sector e-procurement solutions provider... Read more
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The State of Strategic Sourcing: Collaborate and Connect the Dots
Over the past couple of months, Ardent Partners has featured analysis from The State of Strategic Sourcing 2014: Connecting the Dots, which published in Q4 last year and is currently available. Interested... Read more
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Technology Round-Up – April 2, 2015
Concur to Release Re-Engineered Travel Risk Application by Mid Year According to Business Travel News, Concur, the Washington state-based subsidiary of SAP, has re-engineered its legacy travel and risk management... Read more
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What will the Internet of Things Mean for Procurement? In a Word: Collaboration
In the first installment in this series, CPO Rising highlighted how the Internet of Things (IoT) will impact procurement operations and improve the way its people, processes, and technologies operate... Read more
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Technology Round-Up – March 27, 2015
SciQuest Announces New Benchmarking Solution, Updates to Spend Automation Platform On March 11, SciQuest (NASDAQ: SQI),the North Carolina-based provider of automated, cloud-based spend management solutions, announced that it has partnered with SmartProcure to... Read more