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Last week I discussed ‘Taking Accounts Payable to the Next Level' and transforming the accounts payable (“AP”) function from a tactical operation to a strategic one. I spoke about leveraging technology to facilitate this transition and the benefits to be gained. One of the biggest impediments to becoming more strategic [...]

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Categories: Procurement Strategy & Planning, Services and Indirect Spend, Services Procurement & Contingent Labor, Services Procurement & Contingent Labor Management, TechnologyTags: PlusIn Part 1 of this series, we described and unpacked the topic of digital platform-based service providers, which represent a modest but growing spend category far outside of the [...]

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The medical device supply chain requires careful oversight and management. If implantable devices are not transported in a secure and timely manner, patients could end up suffering. Some of the same methods being considered for other kinds of logistics could make an impact in the health care field. From the [...]

The conversation surrounding Artificial Intelligence and its potential applications is among the most intense within today's organizations. At once fearful and hopeful, it's a conversation that's ignited passionate debate for over half a century. Even after all that time, it seems we've still got more questions than answers, more speculation [...]

Andrew Jones opens this week's episode of the Source One Podcast with a Washington Post headline that ought to sound familiar. "Grow Up Crybabies," it reads, "You're America's Luckiest Generation." Surprisingly, the screed wasn't published last week, last month, or even last decade. The article is 25 years old. Jones' point [...]

Categories: Conferences, Finance, P2P, Solution ProvidersTags: PROIn New York City yesterday, following the announcement of a $250 million funding round, Tradeshift provided an update to analysts, customers and partners. We covered a couple of the general updates already, including the announcement of a new receivables-centric application and supplier network offering [...]

CPO Rising's Technology Round-Up returns today with assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing, procurement, or spend management solution provider and you have news to share with us, please drop us a note at editor [...]

Making procurement less predictable [...]

Categories: We are three weeks away now from the next amazing Spend Matters Pub Debate, sponsored by SAP Ariba. The motion to be debated is this: […] (Read more...) [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] [...]

Wikimedia was founded. Something to contemplate as you anxiously await the summer solstice! [...]

Categories: Procurement Commentary, Procurement Strategy & Planning, Sourcing, Strategic SourcingTags: PROIn our previous installments of this series, we focused on some of the key differentiating aspects of contract management and spend analytics solutions. As you may recall, rather than focusing on the features and functions that most providers deliver, this [...]

Seven years ago SI published a short article that stated if your data isn't immediately accessible online, either behind your firewall or behind someone else's firewall or in the cloud, when your employees need it, then they are going to download it to their machines. If their machine is a [...]

No one wins a trade war. Progress stagnates when borders close. Freedom is jeopardized when dictators unite. Human Rights suffer when power is abused. … and the world goes to hell. So, if the world is going to hell, Sourcing Innovation is proud to be part of that “special place” where fairness is sought, openness [...]

Data and intelligence holds the key to procurement moving from the past to the real time and beyond There is no doubting the fact that technology is evolving at an ever faster rate, meaning that the possibilities to analyse and understand business performance is also increasing and is opening up all [...]