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Using Spend Under Management Principles to Drive Improved Financial Performance

By Andrew Bartolini December 22, 2014Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

[A note from the editor: In August, Andrew posed the question - How Do You Define Spend Under Management? - to our audience and invited them to share their views because we…

CPO News – December 19, 2014

By Andrew Bartolini December 19, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Former Apple Global Supply Manager to Serve Jail Time for Procurement Fraud It has been a long time coming, but we can finally close the book on Paul Shin Devine,…

CPO Serial: Procurement Outsourcing (Episode 2) – A Business Case is Made

By Andrew Bartolini December 18, 2014Chief Procurement Officers, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy

Procurement outsourcing has arrived. It may not be beloved by Chief Procurement Officers, but it is certainly on many of their radar screens. It is a topic that many of…

Contract Management: The Third Strategic Sourcing Pillar

By Andrew Bartolini December 17, 2014Articles, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Over the past couple of weeks, Ardent Partners has been featuring analysis from The State of Strategic Sourcing 2014: Connecting the Dots, which is now out and available. Interested readers can find…

Technology Round-Up – December 16, 2014

By Andrew Bartolini December 16, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

SAP Completes Concur Acquisition for $8.3 Billion On December 4, global software provider SAP AG (NYSE Ticker – SAP) announced that it had completed its $8.3 billion acquisition (or $129 per…

Three Events Management Metrics That Matter

By Christopher Dwyer December 15, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, Lists, People, Process, Strategy, Technology

The world of complex spend management can often frustrate the typical procurement executive, as each category that encompasses this area has its own distinct set of capabilities, competencies, solutions, and…

Contract Management Reporting: Trust, but Verify

By Andrew Bartolini December 12, 2014Articles, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

In the mid-to-late 1980s, U.S. President Ronald Reagan adopted an old Russian proverb, "doveryai no proveryai" (trust, but verify) to emphasize to Soviet Premiere Mikhail Gorbachev the need to ensure…

CPO Serial: Procurement Outsourcing (Episode 1) – It Begins

By Andrew Bartolini December 11, 2014Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy

Many years ago, one very large full-service BPO firm stopped working with me because I told them that procurement outsourcing was not on the radar screen of the average Chief…

The State of CWM Meets the State of Independence

By Christopher Dwyer December 10, 2014Complex Categories, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy

Editor’s note: Today’s article is a change of pace from the regular content here at CPO Rising. Ardent's contingent workforce management thought leader and resident expert, Christopher J. Dwyer, will…

Sourcing: The Second Strategic Sourcing Pillar

By Andrew Bartolini December 9, 2014Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

In case you missed our earlier announcement, Ardent Partners’ The State of Strategic Sourcing 2014: Connecting the Dots has been published and interested readers can find the report here and here. In…