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Procurement In My Lifetime: A Timeline Of Understanding (1959 to 2024)

Procurement Insights

” – Albert Einstein It started as a simple exercise: ask ChatGPT, “What are the Top 3 concerns for Chief Procurement Officers in 2025?” What are the Top 3 concerns for Chief Procurement Officers in 2025? What are the Top 3 concerns for Chief Procurement Officers in 2023?

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6 Lessons for Procurement Digitization

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Chief Procurement Officers stand at the precipice of change and taking the next steps towards Procurement innovation is going to require strong leadership and expert guidance. That was followed by design workshops and in Sept 2012 they had a significant pilot involving 350 employees. Woodrow Wilson.

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PRESS RELEASE: NGO Evaluates & Recommends Best Supplier Sustainability Ratings Tools

SPLC (Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council)

According to Sam Hummel, President and CEO of SPLC, “We increasingly have members and Chief Procurement Officers, especially, ask us, ‘How can I know whether my suppliers are sustainability leaders or laggards? Since 2012, we’ve reduced our waste, company-wide 53% while we’ve tripled in size and number of employees.

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Consultancy vs In-House: Making Widespread Impact in Any Procurement Team with Procurement Consultant at Efficio, Daniel Abda – Episode 74

Procurement Talk with David Byrne

Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts Listen on Amazon Episode show notes “As a consultant I had direct access to the chief executive. As a secondee, to go anywhere near the chief executive wasn’t going to happen.”

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Memory Lane – The CPO Rising Tournament 2012

CPO Rising

The Ardent team is hard at work on our 20th annual CPO Rising – State of Procurement report (register for the April 29 webinar here?).