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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up series continues this week with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements. 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

During my years as an analyst, I’ve heard “We want to be the Salesforce of procurement” many times. Yet, procurement is one of the few spaces that lacks truly dominant solution providers. In today’s article, I’ll share my thoughts on why this is the case. In most enterprise software application areas, one or two dominant ..read more

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. Over the last few years, chief procurement officers have realized even more ..read more