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How to Transform Procurement in Five Steps – Step Five: External Stakeholder Engagement
Editor’s Note: Procurement transformation will be a big topic at Ardent Partners’ CPO Rising 2016 executive symposium this spring. Join us in Boston on March 29-30 for what is shaping up to... Read more
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Best of 2015: Three Supply Management Lessons Learned from the Great Carnitas Shortage of 2015
Editor’s Note: This week on CPO Rising, we’re publishing five “best of” articles from 2015 as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead. Enjoy! In... Read more
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Research Preview: The State of Strategic Sourcing – Supplier Management
Ardent Partners is pleased to announce the publication of The State of Strategic Sourcing 2015: The Four Pillars of Sourcing Success report. Interested readers can download this exciting and informative annual research... Read more
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Technology Round-Up – December 10, 2015
SciQuest Updates Spend Automation Suite with Strategic Sourcing Capabilities Last week, North Carolina-based SciQuest (Nasdaq: SQI), which offers automated spend management solutions for procurement practitioners, announced that it has updated its spend automation suite... Read more
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Technology Round-Up – November 19, 2015
Intrigo Announces Collaboration with Ariba on Direct Materials Procurement Intrigo Systems, a California-based integrated business planning (IBP) and managed service provider (MSP) for SAP solutions, announced that it is partnering... Read more
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What the Defense Contract Management Agency can Teach us about Better Buying
In an article from Federal News Radio, it was reported that the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) is seeking to improve and standardize decision making among its geographically dispersed network of buyers,... Read more
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Upcoming Webinar: The State of Strategic Sourcing 2015 – Supplier-Centric Sourcing
Join Ardent Partners and LexisNexis on Thursday, October 22 at 2:00 PM EST for this free webinar on the State of Strategic Sourcing 2015 – Supplier-Centric Sourcing, which draws on the responses... Read more
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Gain a Competitive Edge with eSourcing (Webinar)
Join Ardent Partners and Selectica on Thursday, September 10 at 12:00 PM EST for this free webinar on the value of eSourcing and Supplier-Centric Strategic Sourcing. Register here! For quite some... Read more
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4 Supplier Management Articles You Should Read
CPO Rising has been actively publishing thought leadership, technology analysis, and supply management best practices for many years and the result has been a steady stream of valuable content that... Read more
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Four Supplier Management Best Practices
Business pressures and needs have changed over the past five years such that product lifecycles are shorter and market swings are wider than ever before. The pace of business has... Read more