Procurement Process Orchestration Archives - CPO RISING - THE SITE FOR CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICERS & LEADERS IN SUPPLY MANAGEMENT https://cporising.com/tag/procurement-process-orchestration/ Analyst-led research and intelligence for the procurement community. Sat, 02 May 2026 00:23:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://cporising.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CPOR-Favicon-75x75.png Procurement Process Orchestration Archives - CPO RISING - THE SITE FOR CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICERS & LEADERS IN SUPPLY MANAGEMENT https://cporising.com/tag/procurement-process-orchestration/ 32 32 Redefining Procurement, AP, and Financial Control with Unified Orchestration https://cporising.com/2026/04/27/redefining-procurement-ap-and-financial-control-with-unified-orchestration/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=redefining-procurement-ap-and-financial-control-with-unified-orchestration Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:02:16 +0000 https://cporising.com/?p=55308 Last week, we explored how the relationship between procurement and accounts payable (AP) is undergoing a profound transformation. What was once viewed as a transactional, back-office function is rapidly becoming…

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]]> The Future of Spend Management: Connecting Procurement and AP Through End-to-End Orchestration https://cporising.com/2026/04/20/the-future-of-spend-management-connecting-procurement-and-ap-through-end-to-end-orchestration/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-future-of-spend-management-connecting-procurement-and-ap-through-end-to-end-orchestration Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:02:38 +0000 https://cporising.com/?p=55264 The evolution of procurement and accounts payable (AP) has entered a critical new phase. For years, organizations regarded procurement and AP as separate operational domains, each with its own systems,…

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]]> Best of 2025: Part Two: Scale New Heights — How Technology is Transforming Spend Management https://cporising.com/2026/01/23/best-of-2025-part-two-scale-new-heights-how-technology-is-transforming-spend-management/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=best-of-2025-part-two-scale-new-heights-how-technology-is-transforming-spend-management Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:02:17 +0000 https://cporising.com/?p=54806 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…

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]]> Best of 2025: Part One: Scale New Heights — How Technology is Transforming Spend Management https://cporising.com/2026/01/05/best-of-2025-part-one-scale-new-heights-how-technology-is-transforming-spend-management/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=best-of-2025-part-one-scale-new-heights-how-technology-is-transforming-spend-management Mon, 05 Jan 2026 11:02:02 +0000 https://cporising.com/?p=54804 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…

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]]> Technology Round-Up — April 9, 2025 https://cporising.com/2025/04/09/technology-round-up-april-9-2025/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=technology-round-up-april-9-2025 Wed, 09 Apr 2025 10:02:40 +0000 https://cporising.com/?p=54104 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…

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]]> Magnus Mondays — Zip Forward Europe 2025: Risk Orchestration in the Limelight https://cporising.com/2025/04/07/magnus-mondays-zip-forward-europe-2025-risk-orchestration-in-the-limelight/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=magnus-mondays-zip-forward-europe-2025-risk-orchestration-in-the-limelight Mon, 07 Apr 2025 10:02:08 +0000 https://cporising.com/?p=54094 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…

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]]> Part Two: Scale New Heights — How Technology is Transforming Spend Management https://cporising.com/2025/03/21/part-two-scale-new-heights-how-technology-is-transforming-spend-management/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=part-two-scale-new-heights-how-technology-is-transforming-spend-management Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:02:23 +0000 https://cporising.com/?p=54043 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…

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]]> Magnus Mondays — Ivalua Now EMEA 2025 — Realistic Innovations https://cporising.com/2025/03/17/magnus-mondays-ivalua-now-emea-2025-realistic-innovations/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=magnus-mondays-ivalua-now-emea-2025-realistic-innovations Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:02:13 +0000 https://cporising.com/?p=54038 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,…

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]]> Part One: Scale New Heights — How Technology is Transforming Spend Management https://cporising.com/2025/03/14/part-one-scale-new-heights-how-technology-is-transforming-spend-management/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=part-one-scale-new-heights-how-technology-is-transforming-spend-management Fri, 14 Mar 2025 10:02:10 +0000 https://cporising.com/?p=53771 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…

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]]> Magnus Mondays — Suites, Specialists, and IM&PPO https://cporising.com/2025/03/10/magnus-mondays-suites-specialists-and-imppo/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=magnus-mondays-suites-specialists-and-imppo Mon, 10 Mar 2025 10:02:50 +0000 https://cporising.com/?p=53759 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…

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]]> Magnus Mondays — Do We Need a Sourcing Toolbox? https://cporising.com/2025/03/03/magnus-mondays-do-we-need-a-sourcing-toolbox/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=magnus-mondays-do-we-need-a-sourcing-toolbox Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:02:01 +0000 https://cporising.com/?p=53737 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…

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]]> Magnus Mondays — Let’s Manage More Spend https://cporising.com/2025/02/24/magnus-mondays-lets-manage-more-spend/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=magnus-mondays-lets-manage-more-spend Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:02:57 +0000 https://cporising.com/?p=53713 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…

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]]> NEW WEBINAR: Scale New Heights: Improve Performance by Optimizing Your Procurement Technology https://cporising.com/2025/02/14/new-webinar-scale-new-heights-improve-performance-by-optimizing-your-procurement-technology/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-webinar-scale-new-heights-improve-performance-by-optimizing-your-procurement-technology Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:02:19 +0000 https://cporising.com/?p=53691 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…

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]]> Part Three: Expanding Procurement’s Influence — Connecting Strategy, Users, and Technology https://cporising.com/2024/12/20/part-three-expanding-procurements-influence-connecting-strategy-users-and-technology/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=part-three-expanding-procurements-influence-connecting-strategy-users-and-technology Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:02:36 +0000 https://cporising.com/?p=53473 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…

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]]> Part Two: Expanding Procurement’s Influence — Bridging Complexity with Orchestration https://cporising.com/2024/12/13/part-two-expanding-procurements-influence-bridging-complexity-with-orchestration/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=part-two-expanding-procurements-influence-bridging-complexity-with-orchestration Fri, 13 Dec 2024 11:02:34 +0000 https://cporising.com/?p=53466 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…

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]]> Magnus Mondays — Flexibility or Control? Why Not Both? https://cporising.com/2024/11/18/magnus-mondays-flexibility-or-control-why-not-both/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=magnus-mondays-flexibility-or-control-why-not-both Mon, 18 Nov 2024 11:02:12 +0000 https://cporising.com/?p=53411 For the last decade or so, the go-to solution for automating the Procure to Pay (P2P) process has been … wait for it … P2P suites. The P2P process covers…

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]]> Magnus Mondays — Feature, Product, or Company? https://cporising.com/2024/11/04/magnus-mondays-feature-product-or-company/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=magnus-mondays-feature-product-or-company Mon, 04 Nov 2024 11:02:47 +0000 https://cporising.com/?p=53363 When I joined Ardent Partners a year ago, my very first article was about the proliferation of procurement solutions. My experience at the DPW conference and, perhaps to a lesser…

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]]> Magnus Mondays — Services and CoEs in a Next-Gen Procurement Tech World https://cporising.com/2024/10/28/magnus-mondays-services-and-coes-in-a-next-gen-procurement-tech-world/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=magnus-mondays-services-and-coes-in-a-next-gen-procurement-tech-world Mon, 28 Oct 2024 10:02:00 +0000 https://cporising.com/?p=53344 During the last couple of weeks, I’ve attended a few great conferences (shoutout to Zip, Keelvar, DPW and SAP). Several discussions and observations from these conferences point to how the…

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]]> Magnus Mondays — SAP Spend Connect: Data, Intelligence, and Suite https://cporising.com/2024/10/21/magnus-mondays-sap-spend-connect-data-intelligence-and-suite/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=magnus-mondays-sap-spend-connect-data-intelligence-and-suite Mon, 21 Oct 2024 10:02:22 +0000 https://cporising.com/?p=53328 I spent last week in Las Vegas attending SAP Spend Connect. Spend Connect is the evolution of the old Ariba Live and now covers the entirety of SAP Intelligent Spend…

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]]> Magnus Mondays — Conferences, Innovations, and Sore Feet https://cporising.com/2024/10/14/magnus-mondays-conferences-innovations-and-sore-feet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=magnus-mondays-conferences-innovations-and-sore-feet Mon, 14 Oct 2024 10:02:42 +0000 https://cporising.com/?p=53308 This time of the year is always full of conferences and last week was certainly a whirlwind! Early Tuesday morning I flew down to Amsterdam for Keelvar Konnect and on…

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]]> Magnus Mondays — Zip Forward 2024 — When Procurement Flows, Business Flows https://cporising.com/2024/09/30/magnus-mondays-zip-forward-2024-when-procurement-flows-business-flows/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=magnus-mondays-zip-forward-2024-when-procurement-flows-business-flows Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:02:04 +0000 https://cporising.com/?p=53264 Last week I had the pleasure of attending Zip’s annual user conference Zip Forward. It was hosted at the iconic SF Jazz in central San Francisco. It marked my second…

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]]> Ivalua NOW Dispatch #4: Strategic Roadmap (Platform & AI) https://cporising.com/2024/08/02/ivalua-now-dispatch-4-strategic-roadmap-platform-ai/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ivalua-now-dispatch-4-strategic-roadmap-platform-ai Fri, 02 Aug 2024 10:02:21 +0000 https://cporising.com/?p=53052 The Ardent Partners analyst team recently attended the 2024 Ivalua NOW: Procurement Re-Imaged conference in Miami. This event came on the heels of the company’s slightly larger EMEA conference held…

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]]> NEW WEBINAR: Beyond Automation: How Intake & Orchestration Can Help Procurement Win in 2024 https://cporising.com/2024/07/17/new-webinar-beyond-automation-how-intake-orchestration-can-help-procurement-win-in-2024/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-webinar-beyond-automation-how-intake-orchestration-can-help-procurement-win-in-2024 Wed, 17 Jul 2024 10:02:10 +0000 https://cporising.com/?p=49482 Join Ardent Partners and ZIP on July 31st (2 PM ET) for a webcast on Beyond Automation: How Intake & Orchestration Can Help Procurement Win in 2024. Driving more spend…

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]]> Technology Round-Up — July 10, 2024 https://cporising.com/2024/07/10/technology-round-up-july-10-2024/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=technology-round-up-july-10-2024 Wed, 10 Jul 2024 10:02:20 +0000 https://cporising.com/?p=49475 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 management…

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]]> Magnus Mondays — Procurement’s Early Involvement Problem https://cporising.com/2024/06/24/magnus-mondays-procurements-early-involvement-problem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=magnus-mondays-procurements-early-involvement-problem Mon, 24 Jun 2024 10:02:24 +0000 https://cporising.com/?p=49450 One of the longest-standing complaints from procurement professionals I’ve heard throughout my 20+ year career is: “we don’t get involved early enough.” The complaint certainly has merit. The earlier sourcing…

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]]> Procurement 2024 BIG Predictions (Part 2): AI Reality, AI Governance, and IM&PPO in 2024 https://cporising.com/2024/06/07/procurement-2024-big-predictions-part-2-ai-reality-ai-governance-and-imppo-in-2024/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=procurement-2024-big-predictions-part-2-ai-reality-ai-governance-and-imppo-in-2024 Fri, 07 Jun 2024 10:02:30 +0000 https://cporising.com/?p=49312 [Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published its Procurement-themed report, “Procurement 2024: BIG Trends and Predictions.” Over the next few weeks, this site will feature articles highlighting the key discussion points from the…

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