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Skills for the Modern Procurement Pro – Category Management
It’s a great and worthwhile pursuit for Chief Procurement Officers to invest in their people, so, in that vein, over the next few weeks we will be analyzing the key... Read more
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Proactis to Acquire Intesource
Note: Andrew Bartolini contributed to this article. Late last month, UK-based Proactis announced its plan to acquire US-based Intesource in a deal totaling $3.9 million (of which Proactis will fund... Read more
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Skills for the Modern Procurement Pro – Supply Market Knowledge
This year, I was invited to present (twice!) at the annual ISM conference in Las Vegas. My presentations are part of the “Emerging Practitioner” track designed to help younger procurement professionals... Read more
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Skills for the Modern Procurement Pro – The Sourcing Process
This year, I was invited to present (twice!) at the annual ISM conference in Las Vegas. My presentations are part of the “Emerging Practitioner” track designed to help younger procurement professionals... Read more
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Ardent Partners Publishes Annual State of Procurement Report
Ardent Partners’ annual CPO Rising research report is now available. Entitled, CPO Rising 2014: Convergence and authored by Ardent’s Chief Research Officer, Andrew Bartolini, this report presents a comprehensive, industry-wide... Read more
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Technology Round-Up – May 2, 2014
Announcement from the Publisher I am pleased to announce that next week CPO Rising will officially start publishing articles on a daily basis (weekdays, that is). This is something we’ve... Read more
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Coupa Inspire 2014: Coupa’s New Language of Success
Earlier this month I attended Coupa’s user conference, Coupa INSPIRE, in San Francisco. This second annual conference built upon the success of last year’s event and provided great insight into... Read more
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Acquisti & Sostenibilita Publishes New Sustainable Supply Chain Study
Today, we’re pleased to feature research from Acquisti & Sostenibilità (“Sustainable Procurement”), the Italian organization co-founded by Luca Guzzabocca. Luca is a “friend of the site,” and we profiled him... Read more
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What Will Take You “Swifter, Higher, Faster” in 2014?
The XXII Winter Games are still going strong in Sochi, Russia and will continue through this Sunday. I must admit that I have not watched as much as I would... Read more
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GEP Gets SMART with Its Solution Suite (Part 2)
GEP, the longstanding industry provider of procurement services and solutions, announced last week the launch of “SMART by GEP,” what the company is calling “the first unified sourcing and procurement... Read more