Technology Round-Up — April 9, 2025
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
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
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
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
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 — Suites, Specialists, and IM&PPO
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?
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
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…
NEW WEBINAR: Scale New Heights: Improve Performance by Optimizing Your Procurement Technology
Join Ardent Partners and Zip on February 26th (2 PM ET) as they discuss Scale New Heights: Improve Performance by Optimizing Your Procurement Technology. Getting to the next level of…
Part Three: Expanding Procurement’s Influence — Connecting Strategy, Users, and Technology
Did you miss Ardent Partners' recent webinar, Cast a Wider Net: Leveraging Innovation to Expand Procurement’s Influence and Impact, that shed light on how procurement can deliver greater value by focusing on…