Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

For example, many reports show that the adoption of e-sourcing by best-in-class companies has stagnated at 60% – 70% since 2007. Sourcing alone involves the many and often manual processes for RFxs, like RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, etc. However, adoption (by teams, by stakeholders, by suppliers) is not a reality for most organizations.

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Procurement Tactics

DECEMBER 7, 2022

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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ivalua

JUNE 27, 2022

Far more than “1+1=2”, it’s a combination of the best Source-to-Pay solution with the market leading dynamic discounting environment, joint customers will be able to capture higher yields from their early payment programs turning them into a strategic revenue stream that grows the bottom-line via the C2FO marketplace. .

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ivalua

MAY 19, 2022

Having the complete source-to-pay journey within the Ivalua Platform will help our customers build stronger, reliable supplier relationships”, said David Khuat-Duy, Founder and CEO of Ivalua. The high-level benefit of embedding the TransferMate payment solution within the Ivalua Source to Pay journey is that supply chains can become stronger.

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Spend Matters

APRIL 5, 2023

Categories: Contract Management , Procurement Systems & Architecture , Solution Providers , Source-to-Contract Tags: PRO This Spend Matters PRO Vendor Analysis provides an overview of Spendflo and its solution for SaaS procurement and management. SaaS management and buying tools such, as Spendflo, address the lack of buyer visibility.

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Orsay (France), September 02, 2019 – Viparis has chosen e-Procurement software vendor Ivalua and Consulting firm CKS to optimize the management of supplier relations, source-to-contract (purchase orders, calls for tender and contracts), expense analysis and measurement of Procurement performance.

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Spend Matters

JULY 10, 2023

This Spend Matters Vendor Analysis provides an overview of Proactis and its solution for source-to-pay (S2P). The complexity of S2P with its use of multiple systems to address each aspect it covers, manual processes, data quality issues and process variations can make managing the end-to-end process difficult.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

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. Value chain : Transparency in operations and across multiple supplier tiers gives you visibility into potential gaps in supply continuity.

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Collaboration Suppliers Supply Chain Efficiency Agile and Lean Supply Chain 52

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. Manugistics : Focused on supply chain and logistics, Manugistics provided procurement tools to enhance sourcing and supplier management.

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Supply Chain Opz

MARCH 6, 2015

However, complex supplier relationships, unreliable sources of material supply, and ever-increasing customer expectations greatly add to the expectations to select the best suppliers and conduct their operations more efficiently. One of these trends, in addition to inventory keeping, is dual/multi-sourcing.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

AUGUST 12, 2024

Altana is the world’s first Value Chain Management System – a unified, comprehensive approach that goes far beyond supply chain risk management, with unprecedented visibility, contextualized netrt across business areas, and a collaborative network with end-to-end workflows to get jobs done. 52.14] The future for Altana. “An

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Una

AUGUST 30, 2022

Strategic sourcing experts are using machine learning to categorize and manage spend, AI to better predict demand, and act upon alerts such as contract expiry/renewals. How to Optimize Your Spend with a Strategic Sourcing Process. IT Procurement | Stranger Things Keeping IT Buyers Up at Night. Digital procurement game-changers.

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Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

To customers — Everstream Analytics has collected over 3 trillion data points over the last 10 years and processes 8 million sources daily, enabling exceptional risk and predictive analytics for customers. Read more. )

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MARCH 16, 2020

“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.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The answer to the question posed above is that the public sector’s stakeholders – the general public and/or their constituents – have a different ‘right to service’ expectation than distributed buyers or budget owners in a corporation. Jurisdictions and agencies have unique needs that must be met by the technology they implement. .

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Procurement Express

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Automated approval processes, clear documentation, and real-time visibility empower your team to make smarter decisions, maintain accurate records, and keep your inventory levels optimized. A purchase order is a document sent from a buyer to a supplier that outlines the details of a purchase, such as quantity, price, and delivery terms.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 24, 2024

We believe these companies deserve greater visibility, especially in a market which is increasingly consolidating and diluting buyer choices. To potential buyers — COVALYZE can save category managers and buyers significant time and money, as it takes away many of the manual processes historically required of these roles.

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Jaggaer

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The Essential Guide to Source to Pay, Source to Contract, and Procure to Pay Whether youre new to the world of procurement and supply chain management, or a seasoned veteran; whether you work in a major manufacturing industry, a university, or a medium-sized clinical research organization, you may find procurement jargon rather confusing.

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Zycus Cognitive Procurement

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Advantage Source-to-Pay(S2P). The Source-to-Pay(S2P) process begins with identifying and evaluating relevant suppliers, contracting with those suppliers, placing orders, monitoring the supply of the ordered products and services, authorization, and the final release of payment. Learn More: Zycus Source to Pay Suite.

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Spend Matters

JUNE 24, 2024

Yet buyers agonize over purchasing a car — with good reason. Orchestration : Beyond the technical aspects, how does the system handle data harmonization, task handover and visibility, and automation? Just as all car buyers are different, no two companies are exactly alike. Selecting a software vendor is a bit like buying a car.

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Pipefy

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

One of the tactical processes leveraged to realize strategic goals is the source-to-pay process. Here’s everything you need to know about source-to-pay, from what it looks like in practice to how source-to-pay automation can improve procurement efficiency. When is source-to-pay used?

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Procurement Software

MARCH 7, 2023

Procure-to-Pay (P2P) and Source-to-Pay (S2P) are not just fancy acronyms used by consultants, procurement and finance professionals. Behind these terms are whole concepts of processes that manage how goods and services in your business are requested, sourced, received and paid. What steps are involved in Source-to-Pay?

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Spend Matters

JUNE 21, 2024

Intake and orchestration (I&O) solutions can transform initial customer requests and subsequent interactions for just about any business into streamlined, end-to-end, secure and transparent engagements. To understand their proposition read our Buyers Guide To Intake and Orchestration solutions.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 26, 2023

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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TYA Suite

MAY 13, 2025

While it may not seem as strategic or high-profile as long-term sourcing deals, operational procurement is essential. The PO serves as an official record of the transaction between the buyer and the supplier. Businesses can make sure that their sourcing choices support corporate responsibility objectives by using procedures.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

JUNE 5, 2023

Logward is a logistics technology company offering supply chain management as a service, delivering end-to-end visibility as well as control over freight shipments through cloud based solutions. 22.23] A closer look at Logward’s Sourcing Solutions – what they do, the key features and benefits.

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 9, 2025

Strategic Fit: Amex aimed to build an end-to-end B2B platform (Anna Marrs, Amex), enhancing its supplier-side offerings beyond card issuance. Supplier Focus: Ramps supplier management is buyer-centric (e.g., Why You Missed It: If your focus is on strategic sourcing, supplier collaboration, or niche innovations (e.g.,

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Procurement Software

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Procure-to-Pay (P2P) and Source-to-Pay (S2P) are not just fancy acronyms used by consultants, procurement and finance professionals. Behind these terms are whole concepts of processes that manage how goods and services in your business are requested, sourced, received and paid. What steps are involved in Source-to-Pay?

Sourcing 52

Sourcing supply chain software solutions Procurement Agile and Lean Supply Chain 52

Spend Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2023

We believe these companies deserve greater visibility, especially in a market which is increasingly consolidating and diluting buyer choices. So it is a fairly disruptive approach and paradigm to driving value for companies in the source-to-pay value chain. Today please get to know dSilo. What is dSilo?

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

A recent study by Forrester found that the single greatest factor in increasing a supplier’s willingness to collaborate with and share innovations with a customer was timeliness of and visibility into payments. AP teams need to embrace digital data and think end-to-end. What is Invoice-to-Pay? How does Invoice to Pay Work?

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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. Getting strategic about supplier collaboration positions you to succeed today and overcome tomorrow’s unexpected challenges.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

AUGUST 21, 2023

With over $8 billion of product sourced, nearly 1 million RFQ’s and over 50,000 buyers and suppliers involved, they are the world’s largest manufacturing marketplace. We invested almost $100 million in fully digitizing our end-to-end operations and building software.” Today I’m joined by MFG.

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Spend Matters

JUNE 19, 2023

Spend Analytics solutions provide a single view into all historic, current and planned supplier spending in order to improve that spending through better sourcing, compliance and demand management. The top vendors extend the analytics schema to also support predictive data analysis, AI/ML models or real-time visibility across many systems.

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Procurement Software

MAY 16, 2023

Above $1 billion businesses are typically a target of established, enterprise source-to-pay and source-to-contract suites. Onventis Onventis provides a Procure-to-Pay module for buyers that streamlines the procurement process from purchasing to payment. They are not an end-to-end procurement software suite.

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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. We do not need an end-to-end solution.

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Pipefy

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The information listed in invoices helps the accounts payable team keep track of company spending and purchase trends to better predict needs, which in turn improves the purchasing team’s sourcing and strengthens negotiation power. Department level $3.31 $2.72 $2.71 $2.68

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Goods arrived exactly when needed, waste and holding costs were kept to a minimum, and single source strategies prevailed due to ease and cost savings. One overarching lesson supply chain leaders have learned is that customers increasingly want full visibility of supply chains from inventory to last-mile logistics.

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