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Spendflo: Vendor Analysis — SaaS buying and management solution overview, roadmap, competitors, tech selection tips, analyst summary

Spend Matters

Software procurement is complex, and buyers are often ill informed about considerations specific to buying SaaS, such as contract terms, licenses, pricing and technical expertise. SaaS management and buying tools such, as Spendflo, address the lack of buyer visibility. Read more. )

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Financial Supply Chain —  The Ultimate Guide of 2023

Procurement Tactics

Financial supply chain or supply chain finance describes a set of technology-based solutions that helps lower financing costs and enhance the business experience for sellers and buyers connected in sales transactions. . While suppliers can gain quick access to money the buyer owes them, the latter can get more time to pay their balances.

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It Pays to Partner! Ivalua + C2FO: A Powerful Strategic Payments Pair

ivalua

Ivalua’s global reach of buyers and their suppliers helps us deliver on our mission-providing access to working capital to businesses so they can grow and thrive. Once an organization has the complete Strategic Payment cycle in place CFOs can use the end-to-end visibility to control bottom-line growth with targeted programs. .

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Everstream Analytics: Vendor Analysis — Supply chain risk management solution overview, competitors, tech selection tips, analyst summary

Spend Matters

Even if logistics teams are more responsible for operational fulfillment, procurement still has a massive impact on it in terms of the initial design of the supply network (Design For Supply) and in the contracting of conditions (prices, Incoterm, MOQ, etc.). Read more. )

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Pandemic Underscores Necessity of TMS and Other Supply Chain Tech Tools

Supply Chain Collaborator

A surge in demand to ship the flood of crude oil unleashed by Saudi Arabia and its OPEC peers is sending freight rates surging and forcing buyers to seek out space on smaller tankers after the largest ones have been booked out, shipping sources said. The best illustration prompted by the current situation comes from a Reuters report today.

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Spend Matters Future 5 2023 – Introducing akirolabs

Spend Matters

We believe these companies deserve greater visibility, especially in a market which is increasingly consolidating and diluting buyer choices. So, if you automate this end-to-end process, and in each step of the process you have a 20% chance of misinterpretation, at the end it’s either approximately right or precisely wrong.”

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Predictive Procurement: Overcoming Challenges in Health and Pharma

Arkestro

Supply Chain Visibility. Supply chain visibility is another critical issue. Visibility provides regulatory and consumer assurance in the face of issues like counterfeiting. To combat these issues, health and pharma need supply chain visibility—all the way down the supply chain. Managing Supplier Relationships.