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Best of 2025: Part Two: Scale New Heights — How Technology is Transforming Spend Management

By John Yuva January 23, 2026Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Events, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on CPO Rising, we’re publishing some “best of” 2025 articles as we reflect on last year and begin tackling 2026. Did you miss…

Best of 2025: Part One: Scale New Heights — How Technology is Transforming Spend Management

By John Yuva January 5, 2026Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Events, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on CPO Rising, we’re publishing some “best of” 2025 articles as we reflect on last year and begin tackling 2026. Did you miss…

Technology Round-Up — April 9, 2025

By John Yuva April 9, 2025Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Process, Solution Providers, Technology

CPO Rising's Technology Round-Up series continues this week with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements. If you are a sourcing, procurement, or spend…

Magnus Mondays — Zip Forward Europe 2025: Risk Orchestration in the Limelight

By Magnus Bergfors April 7, 2025Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, Process, Solution Providers, Technology

Last week, I had the pleasure of attending Zip’s inaugural European version of its user conference, Zip Forward. Held in London, the one-day event hosted more than 200 attendees from…

Part Two: Scale New Heights — How Technology is Transforming Spend Management

By John Yuva March 21, 2025Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Events, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Did you miss Ardent Partners' recent webinar, Scale New Heights: Improve Performance by Optimizing Your Procurement Technology, that shed light on reaching the next level of procurement performance by building a…

Magnus Mondays — Ivalua Now EMEA 2025 — Realistic Innovations

By Magnus Bergfors March 17, 2025Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

My 2025 conference season kicked off last week with Ivalua Now EMEA. The conference took place in central Paris at the Carrousel De Louvre, a larger venue than last year,…

Part One: Scale New Heights — How Technology is Transforming Spend Management

By John Yuva March 14, 2025Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Events, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Magnus Mondays — Suites, Specialists, and IM&PPO

By Magnus Bergfors March 10, 2025Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

About a year ago, I wrote a series of articles on the topic of suites vs. specialists (click here to read). In today’s article, I return to that topic and…

Magnus Mondays — Do We Need a Sourcing Toolbox?

By Magnus Bergfors March 3, 2025Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Recently, I’ve talked about the need to manage and source more spend— and source it more frequently. And last year, I wrote an article about innovations in sourcing and how…

Magnus Mondays — Let’s Manage More Spend

By Magnus Bergfors February 24, 2025Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

At Ardent Partners, we have researched procurement metrics and performance for almost 20 years (Andrew Bartolini started tracking it before he founded Ardent). One of the key metrics we follow…