Monday First Thing: Managing Strategic Suppliers
I attended SAP Ariba LIVE last week and an interesting issue arose related to supplier relationship management as well as a business stakeholder's ability to identify and properly partner with…
Technology Round-Up — March 13, 2019
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with an assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing,…
Throwback Thursday: Sourcing Pros Must Think Globally and Act Globally (3)
Publisher’s Note: In 2019, Ardent Partners is celebrating 10 years of delivering “Research with Results” to Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and other readers of this site, including published reports, eBooks, presentations, insights, articles and…
Smarter Contracts can Lead to Smarter Procurement Analytics — Here’s How (Upcoming Webinar)
For some enterprise procurement teams, managing the contracting process may seem like a back-end, tactical process that does not result in anything strategic beyond a codified business relationship with a…
Technology Round-Up — February 20, 2019
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with an assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing,…
Managing R&D Spend: A Briefing with Science Exchange
Ardent Partners' analysts recently took a briefing with executives from Science Exchange, a leading R&D Services Management company. Through its marketplace, Science Exchange brings together research scientists in several industries…
Throwback Thursday: Non-Price Attributes – “Who” is the Supplier?
Publisher’s Note: In 2019, Ardent Partners is celebrating 10 years of delivering “Research with Results” to Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and other readers of this site, including published reports, eBooks, presentations, insights, articles and…
Best of 2018: The Consumerization of Procurement Technologies: A Hot Take on Some Hot Tech
Editor’s Note: We're coming to the end of this winter's “best of” 2018 article series here on CPO Rising, a reflection of the year that was as we prepare for…
Toward an Intelligent Supply Risk Management Paradigm
Last week, I effectively made a business case for adopting digital, automated supply risk management (SRM) tools, along with supplier information management (SIM) and supplier performance management (SPM) tools in…
The Business Case for Supply Risk Management in 2019: By the Numbers
There's a business case to be made for adopting and implementing supply risk management (SRM) tools, as well as supplier performance management (SPM) and supplier information management (SIM) tools. Part…