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Skills for the Modern Procurement Pro – Supplier Performance Management

By Andrew Bartolini June 4, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Technology

It’s a great and worthwhile pursuit for Chief Procurement Officers to invest in their people, so, in that vein, over the next few weeks we will be analyzing the key skills and capabilities…

Skills for the Modern Procurement Pro – Supply Risk Management

By Andrew Bartolini June 3, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategy2 Comments

It’s a great and worthwhile pursuit for Chief Procurement Officers to invest in their people, so, in that vein, over the next few weeks we will be analyzing the key skills and capabilities…

Taking a 360° Approach to Supplier Management

By Andrew Bartolini April 30, 2014Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

Ardent Partners has just published a new report focused on Supplier Management. The fact is that while meeting suppliers is not particularly difficult, finding the rights ones and managing them…

CPO News – US Court Strikes Down Conflict Minerals Provision, Upholds Others

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 22, 2014Articles, General, Process

On Monday, April 14, a U.S. Appellate Court struck down key provisions of the landmark 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act requiring many American companies to declare…

The Convergence of Supplier Management and Contingent Workforce Management

By Christopher Dwyer March 20, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, General, People, Process, Strategy

From a pure procurement perspective, it’s truly exciting when another corporate function or a very complex series of processes leans heavily on the foundation set by the procurement team. In…

Fail-safe

By Andrew Bartolini February 10, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategy

When things don’t go according to plans, the unprepared are often forced to just grin and bear it and hope that no one notices or that the total impact of…

Contingent Labor: To Use…or Not to Use?

By Christopher Dwyer August 20, 2013Articles, Complex Categories, People, Process, Strategy

Contingent Labor: To Use…or Not to Use? That is the question.... Frequent readers of CPO Rising will have noticed a common theme running throughout my articles focused on contingent workforce…

CPO Shop Talk (1) Supply Risk (2) More Supply Risk (3) Featured Webinar

By Andrew Bartolini March 15, 2013Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Strategy

After taking 2012 off, the series "CPO Shop Talk" is back. This is the series where, from time to time, we will attempt to share some of the less-formal conversations…

Thai Floods: Supply Risk Flowing Across an Industry

By Andrew Bartolini February 15, 2012Articles, General, StrategyNo Comments

Last time, we discussed why we think that Supply Risk Will Continue to Impact Companies in 2012 and used the Thailand Floods as an example of an environmental disaster that…

Supply Risk Will Continue to Impact Companies in 2012

By Andrew Bartolini February 13, 2012Articles, General, StrategyNo Comments

I completed a webinar last week on the “Seven Key Trends that Will Impact Procurement in 2012” (an audio recording is here (no registration) for now and the slides may…