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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…

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…

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…

What will the Internet of Things Mean for Procurement? In a Word: Collaboration

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team March 30, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

In the first installment in this series, CPO Rising highlighted how the Internet of Things (IoT) will impact procurement operations and improve the way its people, processes, and technologies operate…

The Real Cost of Contract Non-Compliance: A Multi-Stakeholder View

By Andrew Bartolini March 17, 2015Articles, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy2 Comments

Editor's Note: Last week, we published a couple of articles previewing our new Collaborative Contract Management report, sponsored by Iasta, and available for download here. Today's article is a 'spin off' from the report, and…

Contract Management Reporting: Trust, but Verify

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team December 12, 2014Articles, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

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…

Are You “Dressed to Kill?” Strategies to Mitigate Risk in the Global Cotton Supply Chain

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team December 5, 2014Articles, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

[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…