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CPO Rising is a news and media site written for and about Chief Procurement Officers and other supply management executives. It is also the largest website focused on procurement and supply management. Our mission is to engage executive leaders with a steady stream of top-quality, progressive, and original content.
CPO Rising
14h ago
Part of the Ardent Partners team made it to Vegas this week for the Coupa Inspire conference. You can expect another article or two covering the briefings, presentations, and conversations that we participated in this week. Anyway, I wanted to start off our coverage by discussing an announcement made on Monday that focuses on B2B ..read more
CPO Rising
3d ago
Last week I tackled the question of what to do with a failed P2P implementation. This week I’ll be addressing another common question: Is it a good idea to build your own procurement solution? In today’s article, we will take a look at why that’s usually not a good idea, nor is it ideal to ..read more
CPO Rising
5d ago
It’s Friday, which means we’re sharing another CPO Rising Listicle. Each list will include a variety of procurement tips, trends, insights, research, lists, strategies, and/or recommendations designed to help procurement teams improve operations. We’ll also include a summary graphic for you to share with your team. In “Procurement AI in Action, Part 3,” we explore the future ..read more
CPO Rising
1w ago
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up series continues this week with a focus on Accenture’s latest acquisitions and its growth strategy for Procurement Services. If you are a sourcing, procurement, or spend management solution provider and you are continually innovating the way that procurement and supply chain leaders and practitioners drive value, we’d love to hear from you ..read more
CPO Rising
1w ago
As a long-time procurement technology analyst, one of the most frequent questions posed to me is what solution an organization should pick after a previous failed implementation. Or, in other words, “five years ago we picked solution X and now everybody hates it and won’t use it. What solutions should we look at to replace ..read more
CPO Rising
1w ago
It’s Friday, which means we’re sharing another CPO Rising Listicle. Each list will include a variety of procurement tips, trends, insights, research, lists, strategies, and/or recommendations designed to help procurement teams improve operations. We’ll also include a summary graphic for you to share with your team. Today, in Part 2 of our “Procurement AI in Action” listicle ..read more
CPO Rising
2w ago
We’ve written about intake management and procurement process orchestration (IM&PPO) a couple of times previously. It’s certainly a topic and solution set that is gathering a lot of interest from procurement organizations, investors, and consultants alike. In this week’s article, we will take a look at one of the key players in this space ..read more
CPO Rising
2w ago
It’s Friday, which means we’re sharing another CPO Rising Listicle. Each list will include a variety of procurement tips, trends, insights, research, lists, strategies, and/or recommendations designed to help procurement teams improve operations. We’ll also include a summary graphic for you to share with your team. The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into modern procurement technologies will usher ..read more
CPO Rising
3w ago
Welcome to Procurement News, part of our ongoing aggregate news series covering recent supply management headlines and trends pertinent to Chief Procurement Officers and other procurement leaders! Contact us with your news story here. Procurement Executive News Tracy Rosser Named White Cap’s First CSCO ATLANTA — White Cap, a leading distributor of specialty construction supplies ..read more
CPO Rising
3w ago
If you haven’t heard about generative AI (GenAI), or even been pitched some type of it, then you’ve been hiding under a stone. There are dozens of articles describing GenAI, so it’s unnecessary to write extensively on how it works except to say it is a way of automating the creation of content. Instead, I’ll ..read more