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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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Supplier Performance Management: The Fourth Strategic Sourcing Pillar
Over the past month, Ardent Partners has featured analysis from The State of Strategic Sourcing 2014: Connecting the Dots, which is now out and available. Interested readers can find the report here and here. This research... 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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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
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The State of Strategic Sourcing – Connecting the Dots
Ardent Partners’ The State of Strategic Sourcing: Connecting the Dots is now out and available. Interested readers can find the report here and here. This research report analyzes the strategic... Read more
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Visibility: What Does it Mean for Category Managers?
Our short series of articles on the concept of visibility and what it means for Chief Procurement Officers continues this month. The response to this series has been so strong... Read more
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Three Strategic CWM Capabilities That Matter
Within the framework of modern contingent workforce management, enterprises across the globe realize that the age of merely managing staffing suppliers as an alternative workforce is long dead and gone.... Read more
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Technology Round-Up – October 14, 2014
BravoSolution Appoints Jim Wetekamp as its next CEO By Andrew Bartolini Last week, BravoSolution, a supply management solution provider, announced that its current SVP of Solution Strategy and industry veteran,... Read more
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Procurement Influencer Series: Subhash Makhija of GEP on the Industry’s Future
When Dr. Subhash Makhija co-founded GEP in 1999, along with Neha Desai Shah, Jagadish Turimella, and Roopa Gandhi, their initial vision was to use technology to streamline procurement processes. Makhija... Read more
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Research Preview: The State of Strategic Sourcing in 2014
In the next few weeks, the analyst team at Ardent Partners will publish our annual State of Strategic Sourcing benchmark study. This study builds on last year’s research on the... Read more