Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Larger organizations likely have matured and updated their tech environment over many years with best-of-breed or suite solutions, so its easier for them to get the organization on board with an end-to-end digital transformation. Time and resources can also be a stopping point. Adoption will not happen automatically.

Real-time Visibility 114

Real-time Visibility e2e Procurement Negotiation 114

Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 8, 2025

According to a study , there were 268 million digital buyers in the United States in the year 2022 alone. Increase in Delivery Exceptions Delivery exceptions occur when the an unforeseen incident occurs during the delivery process and hinders timely delivery. What is your Strategy? They can also damage customer relationships.

Real-time Visibility 52

Real-time Visibility Fleet Tracking e2e supply chain software solutions 52

ivalua

MAY 19, 2022

By removing the friction in global supply chains, for the first time, the payment and the sourcing event are seamlessly linked. This allows for part-payments, quality or milestone-based contract terms, even payment on receipt to be visible to the supplier, finance, treasury, and the buyers.

Supply Chain Efficiency 130

Supply Chain Efficiency Real-time Visibility e2e Buyers 130

Spend Matters

AUGUST 28, 2023

At the same time, the importance and criticality of services spend for organizations hasn’t shrunk (on the contrary …) nor the need to address typical challenges and hurdles inherent to complex service categories: inefficient processes, lack of control and low spend visibility. This content is for members only.

e2e 98

e2e Sourcing Real-time Visibility Contract 98

Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

For example, when a customer orders an item through your online shop, you must ship it to the buyer within a specific time frame to avoid cancellation. If possible, you should also consider investing in warehouse management software to help you track inventory and boost the efficiency of your inventory management processes.

Order Fulfillment 98

Order Fulfillment Supply Chain Efficiency e2e Real-time Visibility 98

Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Purchase orders would be written out by hand and mailed or faxed to suppliers with buyers calling suppliers on the phone to tell them about their needs as well as the inevitable changes in demand. Visibility to where goods were was largely limited to updates that came over the phone. Conclusion. And there is nothing wrong with that.

Supply Chain Optimization 98

Supply Chain Optimization Supply Chain Efficiency supply chain software solutions Supply chain 98

Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In times of pressure and crisis , highly responsive and trustworthy suppliers make agility possible. Following widely-known standards keeps your vendor options open so you’re not locked into sourcing from a small pool of specialty suppliers that can negatively impact time to market.

Collaboration 52

Collaboration Suppliers Supply Chain Efficiency Agile and Lean Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Collaborator

MARCH 16, 2020

Coming at a time when the pandemic is depressing global consumption of oil thanks to plummeting travel plans and shelter in place orders, it seems counter intuitive that demand to move oil would be at record high volumes. By Furnishing Upstream and Downstream Visibility to More Effectively Coordinate with all Facets of the Supply Chain.

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supply chain software solutions Supply chain Freight Audit Real-time Visibility 108

Procurement Express

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Without proper purchase controls, budgets spiral, supplier management suffers, and inventory levels become a guessing game. Add in multi-location teams and inept suppliers, and it’s no wonder you can keep the train running on time without the right controls in place. Lets dive into why it matters and how to do it right.

Purchase orders 52

Purchase orders Purchasing Management Real-time Visibility 52

ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

S2P is the end-to-end process that encompasses all the activities between an organization and its suppliers. The contracts govern the relationship between the buyer and supplier, an essential process to inform Procure-to-Pay. Supplier on-boarding time: S2P can significantly reduce the time it takes to on-board new suppliers.

Sourcing 130

Sourcing Real-time Visibility e2e supply chain software solutions 130

Procurement Insights

JANUARY 19, 2025

Notable among these were: Ariba Buyer : Ariba was a leading provider of e-procurement solutions, offering platforms that enabled organizations to manage their procurement processes efficiently. Significance : Their tools helped organizations achieve greater visibility and control over their procurement processes.

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supply chain software solutions Supply Chain Efficiency e2e Supply Chain Optimization 52

Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The company achieves this by using an advanced Al paired with real-world, in-the-moment perspectives from a proprietary network of partners that deliver insights down to the bill of material level. To potential buyers — Everstream Analytics is able to monitor and map n-tier suppliers, providing an in-depth look into its customers' risk.

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Risk management Supply Chain Optimization Risk Supply chain 98

The Network Effect

JANUARY 8, 2015

But what I’m going to discuss today is very real and the most advanced logistics providers can deliver them today. With orchestration, an LSP is afforded the visibility, monitoring, and operational insights required to ensure client service levels are maintained no matter who is performing actual supply chain tasks.

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Supply chain Real-time Visibility e2e Supply 76

Una

AUGUST 30, 2022

This is an age-old discussion that we’ve had in procurement for many, many years – how do we reduce dependency on transactional types of activities and free up some of our time from those types of activities and shift that time to much more knowledge-centric types of activities? Procurement Automation: 5 Tasks You Should be Automating.

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Procurement e2e Supplier relationship management Real-time Visibility 98

TYA Suite

MAY 13, 2025

It ensures that every team has the right resources at the right time, without delays or extra costs. The PO serves as an official record of the transaction between the buyer and the supplier. Over time, these enhanced collaborations improve supply chain stability and can even lead to co-innovation opportunities.

Procurement 40

Procurement supply chain budgeting Supply Chain Efficiency Raw materials 40

Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

It is a process that creates efficiencies across all spend categories, minimizes supply chain risks through improved supplier selection and awards, while giving visibility into pricing and forecasting. Implementation of new supply structure Track results and restart assessment This model has essentially stood the test of time.

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Strategic sourcing Strategic sourcing Sourcing supply chain software solutions 52

Let's Talk Supply Chain

MAY 14, 2023

Flexport is building the platform for global logistics, empowering buyers, sellers and their logistics partners with the technology and services to grow and innovate. He oversaw all sales and operations, sponsored Fortune 500 global accounts and led an organization with nearly 1,000 full time employees under his leadership.

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Procurement Insights

MAY 27, 2024

Businesses must take an outside-in network view and together serve the end consumer.” ” By the time Greg Brady and Ranjit Notani began their journey, I had already sold my company and was moving on to my next challenge. Delivery performance and product quality also improved dramatically.)” ” 30

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Real-time Visibility supply chain software solutions Supply Chain Efficiency e2e 81

IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

They don’t want to fill out a form to request a quote, send an email to get pricing information, or wait to get simple answers; they want real-time answers and action. Customers who flooded Camping World’s call center were often met with long wait times or were dropped accidentally.

e2e 70

e2e Real-time Visibility Strategy Price 70

Spend Matters

JUNE 19, 2023

what/who is driving the spending by how much), trending/time-phased analysis and drill downs through master data taxonomies, e.g., category and supplier taxonomies. The top vendors extend the analytics schema to also support predictive data analysis, AI/ML models or real-time visibility across many systems.

Real-time Visibility 98

Real-time Visibility Data e2e Quality 98

Procurement Software

MAY 16, 2023

Onventis Onventis provides a Procure-to-Pay module for buyers that streamlines the procurement process from purchasing to payment. The software automates workflows and approvals, manages supplier catalogues, and provides real-time analytics for better decision-making. They are not an end-to-end procurement software suite.

Procurement 96

Procurement Purchase orders Real-time Visibility Purchasing 96

Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Your goal might be to transition from purely traditional buyer-supplier business arrangements, fine-tune strong supplier relationships that yield average results, or something in between. For the 32 percent who spend over 25 hours a week, the time consumed cost more than $260,000 annually. Is it possible to lighten this load?

Collaboration 52

Collaboration Supply Chain Efficiency Suppliers Agile and Lean Supply Chain 52

Pipefy

MAY 5, 2023

Manual invoice approval workflows are inefficient and time-consuming, they lack control and transparency for teams, and are expensive and error-prone. Step 3: Verify the invoice Once the data has been extracted and indexed and relevant documents have been collected, it’s time to verify. and 45 days.

e2e 52

e2e Real-time Visibility Purchasing Procurement 52

IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Just-in-time (JIT) became an artform and masters of the practice achieved new levels of precision. The time has come to change the maniacal focus on efficiency for one that balances both efficiency and resilience. How to get started with supply chain resiliency . And this list is far from comprehensive.

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Supply chain resilience Supply Chain Efficiency Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Optimization 52

HICX

MAY 12, 2023

In his words, “If we don’t have visibility of it, we don’t know where to go at it.” Analytics, on the other hand, done correctly, can provide this visibility. Buyers, he says, are spending a lot of time trying to get materials to their factories. Or, ‘how do you get real-time decision-making?’

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e2e Real-time Visibility Supply chain resilience Supply chain 52

IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

As supply chain leaders, we’ve seen unprecedented levels of disruption, challenges with our ecosystem trading partner networks, tariff wars, real wars and tremendous turnover in human capital. It will automate out the dull, menial and transactional work that consumes an enormous amount of low value add time for our professionals.

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Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Optimization Supply Chain Efficiency Supply chain 66

Procurement Software

MARCH 5, 2024

Multi-functional technology enables you to train anywhere at any time, while ever-learning programming allows you to experiment and practice to achieve different outcomes. LavenirAI allows you to train anywhere, any time, so you can stay at the top of your game. It promises to assist with improving buyer and supplier collaboration.

Real-time Visibility 52

Real-time Visibility supply chain software solutions Procurement Supply Chain Efficiency 52

Pipefy

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

But while there are key insights that procurement and accounts payable teams can draw from invoices, the invoice processing activities can be tedious, time-consuming, and costly — especially processed manually across siloed systems, disparate legacy solutions, and disconnected processes.

e2e 59

e2e Management Purchase orders Real-time Visibility 59

Procurement Software

JUNE 20, 2023

We plan to refresh the article a couple of times a year, as solutions are constantly adding features and new solutions come onto the market. SimpliContract SimpliContract is a SaaS-based, AI-powered end-to-end enterprise contract authoring and lifecycle management platform.

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Pipefy

JANUARY 30, 2024

Improvements to existing procurement processes, procedures, and operations are as time-sensitive as ever. 6 procurement technologies to improve your business Transform analog, manual, and paper-ridden processes with end-to-end digitization and automation to improve security, visibility, and control with these six procurement technologies.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 52

Agile and Lean Supply Chain Procurement Real-time Visibility Supply Chain Efficiency 52

Pipefy

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This gives teams more visibility and control by providing a central hub for all purchases, payments, and other information. Better visibility improves alignment between buyers, legal teams, and accounts payable. Buyers get what they need with every request without having to chase after information.

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Real-time Visibility e2e Procurement Procurement team 52

Procurement Software

MAY 14, 2024

Enhanced Efficiency and Visibility: By adopting process orchestration tools and platforms, businesses gain real-time insights and control over their procurement activities, facilitating quicker decision-making and improved risk management. Modern process orchestration software is designed with the end-user in mind.

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Procurement Real-time Visibility e2e Chief Procurement Officer 52

Zycus Cognitive Procurement

MARCH 25, 2021

Although e-Invoicing is not a new technology, its relevance has grown multi-fold in recent times. Electronic invoicing (e-Invoicing) is the invoice document exchange between a supplier and a buyer in an integrated electronic format. Both suppliers and buyers can manage invoicing data on a central cloud-based platform.

e2e 40

e2e Real-time Visibility Supply Chain Efficiency Buyers 40

Pipefy

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

This process grants transparency and visibility into purchase orders and approvals to a sometimes surprising degree. When properly equipped with the right platforms, procurement teams can achieve benefits such as increased efficiency and productivity, cost savings, better supplier management, and improved process visibility and transparency.

Procurement 52

Procurement Real-time Visibility Supply Chain Efficiency e2e 52

Pipefy

JUNE 14, 2023

Visibility into procurement categories and effective management of categories fosters benefits like greater risk management and less costly supplier redundancies. Spend analytics creates the visibility procurement teams need to complete a spend analysis. ignoring the importance of data quality, 2. focusing solely on cost reduction, 3.

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e2e Real-time Visibility Contract Procurement team 52

Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

In this climate, buyers are relying on suppliers more than ever before. And buyers aren’t collaborating with suppliers merely as providers of materials and goods, but as strategic partners that can help create products that are competitive differentiators. They may even take over the provisioning of an entire end-to-end solution.

Collaboration 78

Collaboration Supply Chain Optimization Agile and Lean Supply Chain supply chain budgeting 78

IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 17, 2024

Over 90% of business buyers say a company’s customer experience is as important as what it sells. To avoid this, it’s crucial for businesses to carefully plan and design intelligent automation initiatives that prioritize the needs and preferences of their customers, whether they are consumers or B2B buyers.

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