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Deem – Moving Beyond Travel and Expense Management
For procurement practitioners, managing spend across multiple categories and aligning them to the larger source-to-settle process is both a challenge and a goal. Manual, disparate processes require more time and... Read more
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Then and Now: A Technology Evolution Series, Part III: Event Management
CPO Rising is excited to publish an interesting series of articles focused on the evolution of technology solutions and automated platforms within the greater spend management spectrum. In each article,... Read more
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Technology Round-Up – January 21, 2015
IQNavigator Expands European Operations with New Office in Germany On January 8, IQNavigator, the Colorado-based provider of Vendor Management Solutions (VMS), announced that it is opening a new office in Munich,... Read more
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On Cotton: Understanding Risks in the Global Supply Chain
[Publisher’s note: Supply risk is a beast that wears many suits. Today, we conclude our exclusive three-part series that examines the problem of human trafficking in the global cotton supply... Read more
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Four Best-in-Class Ways to “Connect the Dots” and Improve Sourcing Results in 2015
Over the past couple of months, we have been featuring analysis from our recent report, The State of Strategic Sourcing 2014: Connecting the Dots, which is now out and available. Interested readers... Read more
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Best of 2014: Alicia Ralston: Sowing the Seeds of Collaboration at ADM
Happy New Year! Our Best of 2014 series continues below: This year we have been working to deliver a “CPO Rising Virtual Roundtable” series, sponsored by IBM. Each of the... Read more
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Contract Management: The Third Strategic Sourcing Pillar
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... Read more
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Contract Management Reporting: Trust, but Verify
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... Read more
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Sourcing: The Second Strategic Sourcing Pillar
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... Read more
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Are You “Dressed to Kill?” Strategies to Mitigate Risk in the Global Cotton Supply Chain
[Publisher’s note: Supply risk is a beast that wears many suits. Today, we continue an exclusive three-part series that examines the problem of human trafficking in the global cotton supply... Read more