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Since the late 18th century, self-interest and economics have gone hand in invisible hand. Adam Smith believed self-interested actions would ensure healthy competition and serve the common good. "By pursuing his own interest," he wrote, the individual "frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he intends to [...]

There's no ignoring the fact that the global cold chain industry is growing by leaps and bounds. What accounts for this growth? As always, it's a combination of necessities and luxury goods. The pharmaceutical cold supply chain could see 38 percent growth between 2015 and 2021. The entire global market [...]

Categories: E-Sourcing, Procurement Research, Sourcing, Strategic Sourcing, TechnologyTags: Sourcing and CategoriesSourcing optimization holds much promise for crunching the vast amount of data that procurement organizations increasingly face — as well as cutting costs, saving time and guiding buyers and suppliers to better decisions. But to date, the tools used for [...]

Publisher's Note: In 2019, Ardent Partners is celebrating 10 years of delivering “Research with Results” to Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and other readers of this site, including published reports, eBooks, presentations, insights, articles and events. To commemorate the occasion, we are going to reflect on the firm's first decade by [...]

CPO Rising's Technology Round-Up returns today with an 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 are continually innovating the way that procurement and supply chain leaders and [...]

One of the best presentations at Ivalua Now Paris last week (which the doctor summarized in a post over on Spend Matters UK on how the conference was A Huge Success and a Testament to their growth) was Duncan Jones' presentation on Successful Procurement Transformation that summarized a recent survey [...]

One of the more interesting talks at Ivalua Now Paris was Natacha Trehan's (of the University of Grenoble Alpes) talk on the “Future of Procurement”. In it she said that in the noetic economy of tomorrow, Procurement's function will be to drive complex ecosystems on hyper connected platforms that empowers [...]

Procurement, R&D, academia and start-ups came together at 2017's Supplier Relationship & Innovation Summit to discuss the future role of procurement and collaboration in business [...]

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As you know, I write for many publications on a variety of topics. Sometimes there is an overlap between the different media regarding the applicability of the subject matter about which I am writing. Such is the case regarding today's post on collaboration. In my latest article for Flock, I provide [...]

The Smart Cube's Omer Abdullah has guidance for procurement chiefs and centre of excellence managers on transforming these knowledge-based internal entities into performance-enabling powerhouses [...]

I always enjoy getting involved in a good debate, which is why I was happy that Buyers Meeting Point's Kelly Barner brought me into a discussion regarding an article on LinkedIn; Procurement, seeking respect, may be looking for a seat at the wrong table. In responding to the post by Rich [...]

kraft-heinz-disaster-cost-cutting: Cost Cutting Strategy gone wrong I´m going to leave this article here just to take a note on this strategy, which is not procurement or strategic sourcing but just plain cost cutting. The results are eminent and “A Harvard Business School article in 2016 warned that the technique is [...]

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I find myself yet again looking for a good pool of contractors for civil works for a job in a new geography where we have no presence before. All new, very little reference, trying to understand the specifics of the new location. One thing that stroke me was, how in the [...]

Some common themes from ISM and Procurement Leaders. Last week I had the pleasure of sitting in on some great presentations at the Procurement Leaders World Procurement Congress 18 in London, as well as attending the Institute for Supply Management ISM2018 in Nashville, TN the week before. They provided the [...]

Instead of “recycle, reuse, retread” let's talk about a reboot. Memorization is a frontage road: It runs parallel to the best parts of learning, never intersecting. It's a detour around all the action, a way of knowing without learning, of answering without understanding.” — Ben Orlin, “When Memorization Gets in [...]

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 [...]

It's hard to argue that we are not living in some uncertain economic and political times, perhaps best demonstrated right now in the UK and US, among other nations. [...]