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When Stryker Goes Dark, Your PAR Levels are the Only Thing Standing Between You and a Canceled Case

What happened to Stryker this week isn't just a cybersecurity story. It's a stress test your supply chain just failed in your head, and now is the time to find out if you'd pass it for real.

When Stryker Goes Dark, Your PAR Levels are the Only Thing Standing Between You and a Canceled Case

What happened to Stryker this week isn't just a cybersecurity story. It's a stress test your supply chain just failed in your head, and now is the time to find out if you'd pass it for real.

Savings Are Still Slipping Through the Cracks

Procurement savings often disappear after negotiations because buying and paying workflows break down. Learn how operating models drive real performance and how leading teams make compliance the default.

Savings Are Still Slipping Through the Cracks

Building the Program From the Ground Up

Read about how Bill helped shape RiseTalent from the ground up by designing the curriculum and standards that turned new graduates into confident consultants.

Building the Program From the Ground Up

Read about how Bill helped shape RiseTalent from the ground up by designing the curriculum and standards that turned new graduates into confident consultants.

What if the Tech Works, But the Process Doesn’t?

We've heard a consistent frustration: the technology works, but the process doesn’t. Learn how your organization can reset.

What if the Tech Works, But the Process Doesn’t?

We've heard a consistent frustration: the technology works, but the process doesn’t. Learn how your organization can reset.

Why Am I Going Fast While Everyone Else Is Slowing Down (Especially Risk)?

Procurement is often seen as the bottleneck, but the real culprit is siloed risk reviews across cybersecurity, legal, and compliance. Learn how leading organizations are integrating risk from the start to keep deals moving without sacrificing oversight.

Why Am I Going Fast While Everyone Else Is Slowing Down (Especially Risk)?

Teaching Beyond the Curriculum

This installment of the RiseTalent series explores what the program looks like through the perspective of Gina Van Bemmel, RiseNow’s Training Program Manager. Gina shares how the first cohort combined structured learning, daily practice, and mentorship to create more than a training program. Apprentices learned professional habits, gained confidence, and applied new skills in real time. The result is a launchpad that equips talent to step into client work prepared and ready to lead in teams where people and technology work together.

Teaching Beyond the Curriculum

From 400 Applications to a Career: Inside the First RiseTalent Cohort

RiseTalent’s apprenticeship cohort offers a paid, hands-on path for recent grads and early-career professionals to break into procurement and supply chain consulting. Participants complete 500+ hours of structured training, real project work, technical upskilling, and ongoing mentorship, emerging with both industry knowledge and the confidence to contribute alongside seasoned consultants from day one.

From 400 Applications to a Career: Inside the First RiseTalent Cohort

Assessment Outputs, Actions, & Outcomes: What to Expect When You’re Assessing

A RiseNow assessment isn’t a tech pitch or maturity model—it’s a healthcare-specific diagnostic designed to surface operational truth. This post breaks down our approach: how we cut through assumptions, uncover misalignments, and deliver actionable roadmaps rooted in data, not anecdotes. If you’re a supply chain leader seeking clarity, not just commentary, this is your starting point.

Assessment Outputs, Actions, & Outcomes: What to Expect When You’re Assessing

What People Miss About Change Management and Training in Procurement and Supply Chain

Technology isn’t the problem—lack of adoption is. In this piece, we explore why companies underestimate change management and training, and how embedding them early leads to stronger adoption, fewer workarounds, and real transformation that lasts.

What People Miss About Change Management and Training in Procurement and Supply Chain

Is Your Supply Chain Trying to Tell You Something?

Your supply chain is constantly sending signals—miscounted inventory, expired supplies, and workarounds that shouldn’t be necessary. These small issues add up, leading to costly mistakes and operational breakdowns. One health system thought it had 95% inventory accuracy—until it found out the real number was just 27%. The good news? These problems can be solved. In this blog, we break down the warning signs and how to address them before they turn into bigger issues.

Is Your Supply Chain Trying to Tell You Something?

Transforming Healthcare Supply Chain Talent

The healthcare supply chain faces a critical talent gap as organizations transition to advanced technologies and in-house expertise becomes essential. RiseTalent’s innovative apprenticeship model equips healthcare systems with the skills and leadership needed to drive transformation and build resilient supply chains.

Transforming Healthcare Supply Chain Talent

Procurement and Supply Chain Need a Talent Disruption

As procurement and supply chain continue to evolve with technologies like AI, automation, and advanced analytics, the need for skilled professionals to manage and optimize these systems has never been more urgent.

Procurement and Supply Chain Need a Talent Disruption

Maximizing Value in Digital Transformations: The Power of a Formalized Operating Model

Technology is often seen as the silver bullet that will streamline operations, reduce costs, and enhance efficiency. However, the success of a technological transformation hinges on one critical factor: a formalized and aligned operating model.

Maximizing Value in Digital Transformations: The Power of a Formalized Operating Model

Is “Good Enough for Now” Procurement’s Default Operating Model?

Procurement teams don’t break because people are careless; they break because “temporary” workarounds become permanent. Learn how to spot them and redesign the flow before fragility becomes failure.

Is “Good Enough for Now” Procurement’s Default Operating Model?

I Want Orchestration, But I Have No Idea How to Get It

Procurement orchestration is not a technology feature. It starts with alignment on how work should flow. Learn why intake-to-pay visions fail and how leaders design for exceptions and smooth outcomes.

I Want Orchestration, But I Have No Idea How to Get It

When Technology Isn’t Enough

Many organizations digitized procurement, yet performance gaps remain because operating models haven’t evolved. RiseNow’s Talent Risk Scorecard pinpoints capability gaps, aligns people and systems, and builds teams that sustain transformation.

When Technology Isn’t Enough

Guiding Transformation

Mark Monroe shares how daily coaching, hands-on client work, and real challenges helped RiseAgents grow from learners into confident consultants.

Guiding Transformation

Mark Monroe shares how daily coaching, hands-on client work, and real challenges helped RiseAgents grow from learners into confident consultants.

We Automated the Mess We Had: Now We Just Have a Faster Mess

Systems are live and training is done, but the work still feels stuck. The problem isn’t the software, it’s the operating model.

We Automated the Mess We Had: Now We Just Have a Faster Mess

Systems are live and training is done, but the work still feels stuck. The problem isn’t the software, it’s the operating model.

The Real Voice of Procurement: 200+ Conversations with Procurement Folks in 2025 So Far

In 2025 we spoke with more than 200 procurement leaders across 40 industries, and the patterns were clear. Despite new tools and big rollouts, many teams are still stuck with stalled progress, risk bottlenecks, weak processes, lost savings, and poor supplier experiences. Out of those conversations, 9 themes stood out that reveal where procurement is headed next. This is the first post of a series that will explore each theme in depth, starting with transformation fatigue and the erosion of momentum after go-live.

The Real Voice of Procurement: 200+ Conversations with Procurement Folks in 2025 So Far

What Direct Procurement Really Means (and What Everyone Keeps Missing)

A conversation with Tony Nathanson, RiseNow Tony Nathanson, Global Lead for Direct Materials at RiseNow, breaks down why most platforms miss the mark and what really drives impact: early design collaboration, supplier-led innovation, and knowing where the real cost levers live. If you’re still treating direct like indirect, you’re solving the wrong problem.

What Direct Procurement Really Means (and What Everyone Keeps Missing)

Excuses, Excuses: Why Supply Chain Leaders Resist Assessments (And Why They Shouldn’t!)

Health systems and distribution centers often hesitate to bring in a supply chain assessment, fearing cost, disruption, or uncovering more problems than they can fix. But the real risk isn’t the assessment—it’s letting inefficiencies persist. A well-executed evaluation isn’t about assigning blame; it’s about identifying opportunities, prioritizing solutions, and creating a clear action plan. The key question isn’t should you assess your supply chain, but can you afford not to?

Excuses, Excuses: Why Supply Chain Leaders Resist Assessments (And Why They Shouldn’t!)

Slow Down to Speed Up Procurement Transformation—I Swear!

Procurement teams don’t have a transformation problem—they have a “fixing” problem; this piece explores why slowing down with a structured assessment leads to faster, smarter, and more sustainable procurement transformation.

Slow Down to Speed Up Procurement Transformation—I Swear!

Why Procurement Teams Are Missing the Mark on Transformation Insights

For procurement leaders, transformation isn’t about fixing isolated problems—it’s about engineering them out of the system entirely. Gabe Perez, Chief Strategy Officer at RiseNow, and Joël Collin-Demers, Consulting Principal at Pure Procurement, share why so many procurement teams fall short and how they can shift from a reactive, pain-point-driven approach to a vision-driven strategy.

Why Procurement Teams Are Missing the Mark on Transformation Insights

RiseNow’s RiseTalent: A Game-Changer for Procurement and Supply Chain Transformation

RiseTalent is a pioneering program designed to build a new generation of procurement and supply chain professionals. RiseNow’s Matt Stewart and Steve Dailey offer deeper insights into RiseTalent and its game-changing potential for the industry.

RiseNow’s RiseTalent: A Game-Changer for Procurement and Supply Chain Transformation

Why 75-95% of Digital Transformation Projects Fail (and How to Make Yours Work)

Statistics show that 75-95% of digital transformation projects fail to meet their intended goals. For procurement, where technology promises to streamline operations, enhance supplier relationships, and deliver cost savings, these failure rates can be daunting.

Why 75-95% of Digital Transformation Projects Fail (and How to Make Yours Work)

When Stryker Goes Dark, Your PAR Levels are the Only Thing Standing Between You and a Canceled Case

What happened to Stryker this week isn't just a cybersecurity story. It's a stress test your supply chain just failed in your head, and now is the time to find out if you'd pass it for real.

Building the Program From the Ground Up

Read about how Bill helped shape RiseTalent from the ground up by designing the curriculum and standards that turned new graduates into confident consultants.