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Guest Article: Procurement Can Steady Your Supply Chain

By John Yuva August 11, 2025Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

[Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a guest post from Market Dojo, a technology company offering Software as a Service built by procurement professionals, for procurement professionals. Its solutions enable procurement to…

Best of 2024: Magnus Mondays — Navigating the Raw Essentials: A Primer on Direct Materials

By Magnus Bergfors December 23, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on CPO Rising, we’re publishing some “best of” 2024 articles as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead.…

Magnus Mondays — The Proliferation of eSourcing

By Magnus Bergfors August 19, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

A couple of months ago I wrote an article on innovation in the eSourcing space. New (relatively at least) solution providers like Globality, Pactum, Arkestro, and Fairmarkit have entered the…

Magnus Mondays (Reprisal) — It’s Time to Improve eSourcing Adoption

By Magnus Bergfors July 22, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

[**Over the next few weeks, we'll be running "best of" Magnus Mondays posts, reprising some of the most popular topics of the series. Magnus returns with new content in August.]…

Magnus Mondays — Don’t Leave Money on the Table, Optimize!

By Magnus Bergfors June 17, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

It’s always been a mystery to me why so few organizations use sourcing optimization. Yes, it can be complex to use but there is so much value to get from…

Technology Round-Up — May 8, 2024

By John Yuva May 8, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, 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 management…

Coupa Inspire 2024: From BSM to Margin Multipliers

By Andrew Bartolini April 29, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Last week the Ardent Partners analyst team attended Coupa Inspire at the fashionable Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. According to Coupa, this was the largest Inspire so far…

Accenture Grows Procurement Services Through Acquisitions

By Andrew Bartolini & John Yuva April 17, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up series continues this week with a focus on Accenture's latest acquisitions and its growth strategy for Procurement Services. If you are a sourcing, procurement, or spend management…

Magnus Mondays — Navigating the Raw Essentials: A Primer on Direct Materials

By Magnus Bergfors February 20, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

In one of my articles about suites vs. specialists, I briefly mentioned dedicating a future piece to direct materials. Today’s article will do just that. I’ll look at direct materials…

Guest Article: How to Navigate 2024 with Confidence — Procurement’s “Words of the Year”

By Andrew Bartolini February 16, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology