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What the Defense Contract Management Agency can Teach us about Better Buying

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team October 22, 2015Articles, General, Process, Strategy

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,…

Upcoming Webinar: The State of Strategic Sourcing 2015 – Supplier-Centric Sourcing

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team October 14, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

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…

Gain a Competitive Edge with eSourcing (Webinar)

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team September 3, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

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…

4 Supplier Management Articles You Should Read

By Andrew Bartolini August 31, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

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…

Four Supplier Management Best Practices

By Andrew Bartolini August 21, 2015Articles, Lists, People, Process, Strategy, Technology2 Comments

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…

Technology Round-Up – July 10, 2015

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team July 10, 2015Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

IQNavigator Set to Release Improved Vendor Management System In mid May, IQNavigator, the Denver-based provider of non-employee Vendor Management Systems (VMS), announced that it has updated its offering, which will now…

Research Preview: Next-Gen Spend: Accelerating Procurement Performance with Data-Driven Strategies

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team June 22, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Today's article is a preview of a report that Ardent Partners recently published entitled, Next-Gen Spend: Accelerating Procurement Performance with Data-Driven Strategies. The report is sponsored by GEP and interested readers…

BravoAdvantage: Taking Sourcing and Supplier Management to the “Next Level”

By Andrew Bartolini June 12, 2015Articles, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Ahead of BravoSolution's user group in London this week, we caught up with Jim Wetekamp, BravoSolution's CEO and Andrea Brody, Bravo's new SVP of Marketing, to get a general update and discuss…

Spend Analysis & Sourcing: Connecting the Sourcing Dots for Greater Value

By Andrew Bartolini April 13, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

I recently exchanged notes with a colleague who commented that recently, CPO Rising seems to have been very focused on operational procurement and complex spend management over the past month…

Technology Round-Up – March 27, 2015

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team March 27, 2015Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology

SciQuest Announces New Benchmarking Solution, Updates to Spend Automation Platform On March 11, SciQuest (NASDAQ: SQI),the North Carolina-based provider of automated, cloud-based spend management solutions, announced that it has partnered with SmartProcure to…