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Toward an Intelligent Supply Risk Management Paradigm

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team November 26, 2018Articles, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

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…

Black Friday 2018 – Shopping, Supply Chains, and Sales Reminder

By Andrew Bartolini November 23, 2018Articles, Complex Categories, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Attention Shoppers! The day after Thanksgiving in the US has long been known as Black Friday, the dark name for what is generally considered the biggest shopping day of the year…

The Business Case for Supply Risk Management in 2019: By the Numbers

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team November 19, 2018Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Lists, Process, Strategy, Technology

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…

Reflections on the CPO Rising 2018 Summit (Part I): Third Time’s a Charm

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team November 14, 2018Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, Lists, People, Technology1 Comment

One week ago, delegates, speakers, and supply management solutions providers descended upon the historic Harvard Club of Boston for Ardent Partners' third-annual CPO Rising procurement executive summit. The Ardent team…

When Blockchain Meets Supply Chain – October 23, 2018

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team October 23, 2018Articles, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Every day, solution providers continue to research, develop, and integrate “Industry 4.0” technologies, like 3-D printing, Blockchain distributed digital ledgers, cognitive capabilities, connected devices, and robotics within sourcing, procurement, and…

CPO Rising 2018 Speaker Profile – Harold “Hal” Good, CPO Rising Hall of Famer

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team October 22, 2018Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, People, Process, Strategy, Technology

Ardent Partners is pleased to welcome back Harold “Hal” Good, a lifelong procurement practitioner, procurement “luminary,” and CPO Rising Hall of Famer to CPO Rising 2018. He will host an Expert Roundtable…

Technology Round-Up — October 16, 2018

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team October 16, 2018Articles, Complex Categories, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing, procurement,…

Becoming Anti-Fragile at Bristlecone Pulse 2018

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team October 8, 2018Articles, Events, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Last week, I had the pleasure to attend Bristlecone's fifth-annual user conference, Pulse 2018, at the highly esteemed Massachusetts Institute of Technology (where there were no Matt Damon sightings or references…

Technology Round-Up – September 20, 2018

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team September 20, 2018Articles, Complex Categories, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

Six CPO Strategies for Navigating Through and Managing Change

By Andrew Bartolini & Christopher Dwyer August 23, 2018Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Lists, People, Process, Strategy, Technology

The interesting angle to navigating change is how exactly Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and their teams react to it; in an age when “agility” has become a desired status for…