Technology Round-Up — May 22, 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,…
Supply Risk Management: A Best-in-Class Value Driver
While cutting costs, increasing savings, and pulling more spend under management is, collectively, a well-worn path for procurement to drive performance, a road less-traveled is through effective supply risk management (SRM).…
Monday First Thing: House of Procurement (Part 1) – Innovation
Publisher’s Note: Today's article includes a large excerpt Ardent's annual "State of Procurement" research report, CPO Rising 2019: Value Expansion. This report is based upon the responses from more than 300 CPOs…
Throwback Thursday: Sourcing Pipelines
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…
Technology Round-Up — April 17, 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,…
Technology Round-Up — April 10, 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,…
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…
When Blockchain Meets Supply Chain – March 20, 2019
Editor’s Note: In 2019, just about everyone in the technology world is talking about and writing about Blockchain distributed digital ledgers, including the supply management world. It’s not the cool…
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: Suppliers — Pay Them Now or Pay Them Later?
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…