How Far Can We Apply Industry 4.0 to Procurement?
Industry 4.0, as it has been called, is the next phase of manufacturing. By its namesake, it is the fourth industrial revolution representing not just the digitization and automation of…
Monday First Thing: EcoVadis Sustain 2019 #IgniteChange
A few weeks ago, I journeyed to Paris to participate in and attend EcoVadis' annual user conference, Sustain 2019. The annual event has grown dramatically over the past few years,…
Avoiding Digital Disaster
If you missed yesterday's webinar, The Procurement Leader's Guide to Digital Transformation, you missed a really interesting presentation (if I do say so, myself) and a scintillating discussion with the…
Throwback Thursday: CPO Shop Talk – Career Transitions: A Sign of the Times
Publisher’s Note: In 2019, Ardent Partners is celebrating 10 years of delivering “Research with Results” to Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and other readers of this site, including published reports, eBooks, presentations, insights, articles and…
From Industry 4.0 to Procurement 4.0: Turning Innovative Ideas into Innovation
Editor's Note: Andrew Bartolini's Monday First Thing article will return next week at its usual day and time. In the meantime, we invite you to consider the specific ways that Industry 4.0…
New Webinar from Ardent Partners: Transforming Procurement to Become a “Smart” Function
The digital transformation of a procurement department is an opportunity to use technology as a means to reimagine the organization’s entire scope of operations and how it performs. Unlike the…
Monday First Thing: The Intersection of Data and Sourcing
Thank you to everyone who has taken our annual CPO Rising survey - we've decided to close the survey tomorrow night so if you have 12-13 minutes (average survey taker time),…
Throwback Thursday: Suppliers — Pay Them Now or Pay Them Later?
Publisher’s Note: In 2019, Ardent Partners is celebrating 10 years of delivering “Research with Results” to Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and other readers of this site, including published reports, eBooks, presentations, insights, articles and…
CPO News — March 6, 2019
Welcome to a late winter edition of CPO News! Over the past couple of months there have been some higher-profile appointments and promotions that occurred in the procurement world, and…
Monday First Thing – Where There’s Spark, There’s Fire
Event season commenced last week taking me to San Francisco for Scout RFP’s second annual Spark by Scout user conference. Held at the SF Jazz auditorium and described by CEO…