Four Supplier Management Best Practices
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…
Top 5 Strategies to Better Manage Supply Risk
We have discussed at length how the CPO role is converging across the enterprise to include more responsibilities, and more overlap with traditionally-siloed departments, like finance, HR, Legal, Logistics, Operations,…
What Diplomatic Relations with Cuba Could Mean for Chief Procurement Officers
With the recent news that the U.S. and Cuban governments are re-opening embassies in each other’s capital cities, the possibility that the U.S. and Cuba will eventually normalize economic relations…
What Can Procurement Execs Learn from “Game of Thrones”?
“Knowledge is a weapon…arm yourself well before you ride forth to battle.” From A Storm of Swords, book four of in the A Song of Fire and Ice series It’s…
CPO News – June 15, 2015
Meritor Chief Procurement Officer Named President of Aftermarket and Trailer Division On April 30, Meritor, Inc. (NYSE: MTOR), a Troy, Michigan-based global supplier of drivetrain, mobility, braking, and aftermarket solutions for commercial vehicle…
BravoAdvantage: Taking Sourcing and Supplier Management to the “Next Level”
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…
ISM at 100: The Hidden Risks Lurking Within Supplier Relationships
Ardent Partners’ analyst team attended the 100th annual Institute for Supply Management (ISM) conference in Phoenix a couple of weeks ago. Risk, in many of its forms, was a regular topic throughout the…
ISM at 100: Conflict Minerals Compliance – Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Ardent Partners’ analyst team attended the 100th annual Institute for Supply Management (ISM) conference in Phoenix a couple of weeks ago. Risk, in many of its forms, was a regular topic throughout the…
ISM at 100: Robert Gates on Global Stability and Supply Risk
[Editor's note: the views expressed by Dr. Robert Gates do not necessarily reflect the views of Ardent Partners or its employees. Our goal with this piece is to present a…
CPO News – April 22, 2015
Carnival Corporation Appoints Julia M. Brown as First Chief Procurement Officer On March 25, Carnival Corporation (NYSE: CUK), the world's largest travel and leisure brand, announced that it has appointed Julia M.…
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