Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Secondly come eProcurement, Supply Chain Collaboration, Invoicing, and Payments. These four steps constitute the downstream procure-to-pay part of the process. Optimizing source-to-paythrough digital transformation streamlines every stage of your procurement strategy, improving visibility, efficiency, and collaboration.

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ivalua

JUNE 15, 2022

At our annual Ivalua NOW event in Paris, France–Ivalua asked, “Is your procurement team prepared to respond to unexpected supplier chain issues with speed and agility?”. Körber must also develop and implement category strategies at a corporate and local level, with autonomy and flexibility granted to the Strategic Business Units (SBU’s).

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CPO Rising

OCTOBER 4, 2024

As one of the few industry analysts with roughly a quarter century focused on and working in procurement, it was surprising to me how little I knew about the multi-billion… The post Can Amazon “Reshape” the Procurement Industry appeared first on CPO RISING - THE SITE FOR CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICERS & LEADERS IN SUPPLY MANAGEMENT. (..)

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Jaggaer

DECEMBER 13, 2024

S2P integrates various functions and technologies to streamline operations, improve decision-making, and foster continuous improvement in procurement practices. The Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) should prioritize effectiveness and efficiency across Source-to-Pay in its entiret y.

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CPO Rising

MAY 31, 2024

[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published its Procurement-themed report, “Procurement 2024: BIG Trends and Predictions.” Chief Procurement Officers and their teams head into 2024 with a continued lack of clarity and a need for caution. While a recession was […]

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ivalua

MARCH 1, 2019

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. “If you want to make enemies, try to change something.” Woodrow Wilson.

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CPO Rising

AUGUST 7, 2023

Today, we feature our ongoing coverage of this year’s 18th-annual CPO-themed report, where my team and I continue our nearly two-decade-long dialogue with chief procurement officers (CPOs) and other procurement leaders.

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Arkestro

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

About Jack Miles With over 30 years of experience in corporate operations and administrative services spanning supply chain management, ecommerce, and eprocurement Jack Miles is a respected industry leader and a key player in the procurement field.

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CPO Rising

MAY 6, 2024

As I’ve mentioned before, my procurement technology career began years ago in eSourcing. IBX was primarily an eProcurement/marketplace provider, but it also resold an eSourcing solution called Emptoris (later acquired by IBM and subsequently sunsetted) where […]

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Arkestro

MARCH 4, 2025

Arkestro: If you were advising a Chief Procurement Officer in financial services, how would you position Arkestro as a critical part of their strategy? Jack Miles: If youre the procurement person, I would say Arkestro may not be what you think. It’s a more simplistic process, and it delivers good value.

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Arkestro

MAY 9, 2023

Resources / Blog / What CPOs Need to Know About Predictive Procurement Orchestration What CPOs Need to Know About Predictive Procurement Orchestration The vast majority of Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) believe in the power of procurement data to make better-informed decisions across their organization.

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Procurement Insights

MAY 13, 2024

Here is the link to the previous article that launched this series – 2005 SR&ED Related Report on eProcurement Software Industry Tells A Revealing Story in 2024 ERP Versus AI Initiative Success “Sadly, beneath the aspirational headlines and the tantalizing potential lies a sobering reality: Most AI projects fail.

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NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Consider these courses and resources from NLPA: 14 Procurement Best Practices Are You Chief Procurement Officer Material? Well-trained staff can effectively implement new tools and strategies, making the transformation process smoother and more successful.

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CPO Rising

JULY 22, 2024

When I first started reading CPO Rising more than a decade ago, I remember Ardent’s founder and chief research officer, Andrew Bartolini, introducing the concept […] [**Over the next few weeks, we’ll be running “best of” Magnus Mondays posts, reprising some of the most popular topics of the series.

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CPO Rising

JULY 8, 2024

“Data is the new oil” has been spouted as a truism for a number of years. This is primarily due to the promises of all the nice things AI will do for us. But access to clean and correct data is a much more fundamental requirement than just enabling AI. Having correct supplier data, visibility […]

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CPO Rising

APRIL 22, 2024

This week I’ll be addressing another common question: Is it a good idea to build your own procurement solution? Last week I tackled the question of what to do with a failed P2P implementation. In today’s article, we will take a look at why that’s usually not a good idea, nor is it ideal to […]

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CPO Rising

MARCH 4, 2024

Today I’m wrapping up our mini-series on direct materials and what differentiates it from indirect by looking at the transactional side — also known as procure to pay (P2P).

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CPO Rising

JANUARY 22, 2024

When I first started reading CPO Rising more than a decade ago, I remember Ardent’s founder and chief research officer, Andrew Bartolini, introducing the concept of eSourcing 2.0: The idea that if a supplier negotiation required a contract, the negotiation should be captured electronically — and ideally — by an eSourcing tool.

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CPO Rising

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

A little more than a decade ago when I joined Gartner and started out as an analyst, there were basically a handful of vendors that mattered and another handful that you had to keep an eye on (a slight exaggeration, but you get my point). And these vendors were fairly easy to classify — you […]

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CPO Rising

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

[Publisher’s Note: It goes without saying that we’re excited to make today’s announcement. I have known Magnus for more than a decade, first as the lead analyst at rival firm, Gartner, and more recently as a customer at several solution providers. He’s worked in the industry for a couple decades and is one of the […]

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CPO Rising

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

For the last decade or so, the go-to solution for automating the Procure to Pay (P2P) process has been … wait for it … P2P suites. appeared first on CPO RISING - THE SITE FOR CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICERS & LEADERS IN SUPPLY MANAGEMENT. The P2P process covers… The post Magnus Mondays — Flexibility or Control?

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