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A Collaborative Approach to Event Management 27 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
Business travel and corporate meetings/events are two of the largest expenditures for the average enterprise, and while procurement organizations often find the good ways to reduce costs within these ...
An Epic Welcome to Procurement 22 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
There’s a new meme making its way around the “internets” courtesy of a Georgia Tech sophomore’s welcome speech at this year’s Freshman Convocation. It’s less than two minutes and since you’re here, it...
Contingent Labor: To Use…or Not to Use? 20 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
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 management...
The Changing View of Suppliers 16 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
Today’s article is based on research from Ardent’s latest report – ePayables 2013: AP’s New Dawn, which surveyed 245 AP and finance leaders. More on the report very soon. When enterprises launch trans...
How Are We Doing? Five Questions to Evaluate Your CWM Program 14 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
CPO Rising often presents content that addresses a wide variety of supply management concerns beyond the “core” or more traditional areas. As Chief Procurement Officers place more spend under manageme...
Strategic Sourcing in 2013 12 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
What is strategic sourcing? Throughout our “Summer of Sourcing,” we’ve looked at various aspects of the sourcing process, what sourcing leaders do to be more effective than their peers, and we describ...
Procurement Transformation: Buzzword…or a Viable Strategy? 9 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
Today, we’ll discuss a concept that some Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) have made a top priority over recent years: procurement transformation. Within the greater procurement and sourcing industry,...
Spend and Sourcing Analytics: Gateway to Greater Value 7 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
The summer of 2013 is the “Summer of Sourcing” on CPO Rising, as we deliver a slew of sourcing-related articles on a wide variety of topics that fall under the sourcing banner. Today, our focus is on ...
The State of Strategic Sourcing 2013 5 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
We’re pleased to announce that ArdentPartners’ State of Strategic Sourcing Report 2013 is now available. Subtitled: “Speed is Good, Agility is Better,” this research report dives deep into the strateg...
Mobility and Complex Category Management (Part I) 2 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
In the procurement and supply management world, buzzwords come-and-go every year. Some of these fresh happenings represent a true change in the business world, while others fizzle out as their corresp...
