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Technology Round-Up – June 8, 2017
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of procurement and supply management solution-provider news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a... Read more
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The CPO’s Agenda 2017: Same Pressures, New Responses
We recently published my twelfth annual CPO-themed report, CPO Rising 2017: Tools of the Trade, which is part of an ongoing dialogue that my team and I have had with Chief Procurement... Read more
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Technology Round-up – May 22 (Coupa Inspire Edition)
Coupa Inspire was held last week May 16-18 in San Franciso. Ardent Partners analysts were in attendance. During the conference, Coupa Software made many announcements. Today’s Technology Round-up is dedicated to several... Read more
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Six Strategies to Expand Commercial Card Programs
Leading organizations know that in order to maintain market share and market relevance, they must find strong trading partners with shared or aligned interests and develop a coalition of willing... Read more
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Technology Round-Up – May 4, 2017
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of procurement and supply management solution-provider news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a... Read more
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Technology Round-up – March 23, 2017 (SAP Ariba Live Edition)
Earlier this week, Matt York and I attended the annual SAP Ariba LIVE conference at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas. The event is one of the industry’s largest (~3200 estimated... Read more
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Three Innovative Technologies Driving Procurement Agility – Part Two
It has been stated often in Ardent Partners research and webinars that “it is an exciting time to work in procurement.” And this is no less true today than it... Read more
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How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – eInvoicing
In the digital age, organizations as a whole and procurement departments in particular swim in data. It is everywhere, spread across an alphabet soup of internal and external systems –... Read more
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CPO Opportunity: Harvesting Supplier Innovation
CPO Rising 2017: Tools of The Trade – Ardent Partners conducts an annual procurement-themed market research study each year and this is it. By taking the survey, you have an opportunity to help advance... Read more
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Is the Conflict Minerals Provision in Dodd-Frank Going Away?
As we noted in our recent 2017 Procurement: Big Trends and Predictions webinar, the current U.S. trade policies and the regulatory environment should be tracked more closely because change is... Read more