The Thomas Blog

JANUARY 15, 2025

Here at Thomas , we've been powering North Americas largest and most active network of B2B buyers and industrial/commercial suppliers for more than 120 years. We understand the challenge of finding the best and most reliable suppliers.

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The Thomas Blog

APRIL 14, 2025

Supply chain reshoring and the growing number of sourcing options for industrial buyers have led to new and evolving challenges for U.S. Thomas has been helping industrial buyers with supplier discovery for 127 years, forging connections that drive U.S. million registered buyers completes more than 1.5 manufacturers.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 30, 2024

So for the buyer, that means they must engage in contingency planning up-front and keep close communications with suppliers to make sure the information about the event is received as early as possible so that they can respond as early as possible to pre-empt as much damage as they can.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Strategic Sourcing Simplified: Best Practices for Maximizing Value Strategic sourcing goes beyond cost savings its about making informed decisions that drive long-term value. Now well dive into best practices in these critical areas to ensure a more effective and resilient sourcing strategy.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In this Spend Matters Vendor Analysis we provide an overview of Onventis and its solution for source-to-pay (S2P). Source-to-pay solutions allow organizations to streamline how they manage their procurement lifecycle from start to finish. Onventis provides the above but it’s also important to note two other things about Onventis.

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Procurement Tactics

MARCH 23, 2023

18 Must-Have Negotiation Skills For Procurement Professionals Download Course Details →  Or receive our famous weekly newsletter Source-to-Contract — The Ultimate Guide Source-to-contract is an important process in procurement. If you want to know about source-to-contract, then this is for you! What is Source-to-Contract?

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The Thomas Blog

AUGUST 24, 2022

And so do the buyers of your company's products or services. By understanding what your buyers have on their plates, you can more easily accomplish one of your most important tasks — generating more leads and contributing to your bottom line. The buyer realizes a need. The buyer evaluates potential suppliers.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 8, 2025

This Spend Matters Vendor Analysis provides an overview of Zip and its solution for intake, orchestration and source to pay (S2P). As procurement becomes increasingly strategic and digital, intake and orchestration processes require intricate coordination across various departments, tools and data sources.

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ivalua

AUGUST 11, 2021

Responsible sourcing is the incorporation of ethical, sustainable and socially conscious principles into sourcing, procurement and overall supply chain management practices. This approach ensures that business between a buyer and its suppliers is conducted in a manner that does not negatively impact society or the environment. .

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Data comes from multiple sources, such as purchasing/payment systems, purchasing card data, travel and expense systems, and often multiple ERP systems. Reach out to us today to discuss all of our Source-to-Pay and Procure-to-Pay solutions. How to analyze your Tail Spend: Understanding spend data. We’re here to help.

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Spend Matters

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Overall, spend analytics plays a vital role in helping procurement teams drive strategic sourcing initiatives, enhance supplier relationships and ultimately contribute to the organization’s bottom line.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

What is Source to Pay (S2P)? Yet in the case of source to pay, it is wholly justified. That said, many organizations, including large enterprises, may not think in terms of source to pay as an end-to-end process, if they think about it at all. Yet there are good reasons to do so.

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Spend Matters

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

OECD Due Diligence Guidance (2011) covers responsible sourcing practices. Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act Section 1502 (2010) is a US law that requires companies listed on US stock exchanges to be diligent regarding the source of minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo and surrounding areas.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Strategic Sourcing Success: Best Practices and Key Strategies Of course, there are many definition s of source-to-pay but put simply, strategic sourcing is a data-driven approach to securing the best value for your organization from its strategic suppliers. How Has Strategic Sourcing Evolved?

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Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Circulor has developed a platform that tracks materials from their source to the final product, allowing manufacturers to comply with such regulations and demonstrate responsible sourcing. conflict minerals) and existing and upcoming laws that hold companies responsible for the impact of their products.

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Procurement Tactics

JULY 20, 2022

China Sourcing — The Ultimate Guide of 2022. China sourcing is popular with many professionals in the field of procurement. For this article, we will discuss what China Sourcing is. We will check how sourcing in China can be best for businesses. Also, we will share some tips when sourcing goods or services in China.

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Procurement Insights

MARCH 6, 2025

To better understand the pros and cons of a GenerativeAI Gartner Magic Quadrant Mock-up, you must first understand the pros and cons of the original source, e.g., quantifying how far the AI apple actually falls from its tree or original source. Buyers might overlook Provider X if its not a Leader, even if it excels in supply chain LCA.

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Spend Matters

APRIL 14, 2025

The knowledge of how to balance quality, cost and delivery for a part is often held by the most experienced buyers. To potential buyers CADDi Drawer is an innovative company that leverages cutting-edge AI technology to transform how manufacturing drawings and procurement data are managed. This content is for members only.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 14, 2024

and its solution for Sourcing, Contracts, Procurement, AP Automation, Vendor Onboarding, Budgets, Reporting & Analytics and Vendor Risk Management. Companies seeking support in areas across the source-to-pay (S2P) process can struggle with managing multiple tools. To potential buyers — Zapro.ai To potential buyers — Zapro.ai

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Spend Matters

MARCH 11, 2024

In this Spend Matters Vendor Analysis we provide an overview of VORTAL and its source-to-pay (S2P) solution. The post VORTAL: Vendor Analysis — e-Sourcing and e-Procurement solution overview, roadmap, customer feedback, competitors, user considerations, analyst summary appeared first on Spend Matters.

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Procurement Heads

JULY 14, 2022

Kaleida, which was founded by Jason Roberts in 2019, connects buyers to diverse suppliers and helps procurement functions achieve their Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) goals while alerting supplier companies to new revenue opportunities. Kaleida’s fully inclusive platform is a golden source of data.

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ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

A comprehensive Source-to-Pay platform is a critical component of an organization’s IT environment. What is Source-to-Pay? The Source-to-Pay process itself is quite broad but it covers most if not all the aspects of a procurement organization, at least from a process and technology perspective.

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Spend Matters

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Customers want to quickly adjust sourcing strategies and build agility into their supply chains. Consult TechMatch our tech selection tool that helps procurement and finance technology buyers quickly explore the market and identify best-fit solutions.

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Spend Matters

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Consult TechMatch our tech selection tool that helps procurement and finance technology buyers quickly explore the market and identify best-fit solutions. As always, reach out to discover how Spend Matters can help with your procuretech ambitions for next year.

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Procurement Leaders

MAY 13, 2024

A major difference between an RFS and an RFP is that buyers approach suppliers without knowing precisely what it is they are sourcing. By dispensing with detailed pricing and specification criteria, an RFS gives suppliers the freedom to propose innovative solutions to the buying organisation’s strategic challenges.

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Spend Matters

APRIL 16, 2025

Our coverage also explores the latest thought leadership topics about procurement and supply, the technology that serves it and comparative analyses based on demos and the scoring of 500+ RFI requirements across 12 source-to-pay (S2P) categories that create our Vendor Ranking data.

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Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This is the first in a three-part series that covers Fairmarkit’s sourcing offerings. Part of the ‘tail spend challenge’ relates how much effort it can take to understand it, acquire sufficient visibility and ‘data quality’ and address it with SxM and sourcing solutions. This content is for members only.

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Procurement Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

” – Steven Williams, Frito-Lay and Quaker CEO I shared the following comment in a post by Steven Williams , who started his career many years ago as a buyer and is today Frito-Lay and Quaker’s ( PepsiCo ) CEO. Being transparent and authentic about what I’m doing and then doing what I say I’m going to do.”

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Spend Matters

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This Spend Matters Vendor Analysis provides an overview of CobbleStone Software and its sourcing, contract lifecycle management (CLM) and e-procurement solution. To potential buyers — CobbleStone is a user-friendly solution that also includes more advanced, AI-enabled features to compete against best-of-breed providers.

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Spend Matters

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The platform has built-in functionalities for supplier management, direct material sourcing and procurement, supplier onboarding, supplier quality and supplier performance management. Supplios is a supplier collaboration platform built specifically to help manufacturers work with their direct-material suppliers.

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Spend Matters

JUNE 19, 2023

In this article, our analyst Bertrand Maltaverne looks at sourcing optimization. What does a Sourcing Optimization solution do? Why buy a Sourcing Optimization solution Intended to yield optimal sourcing decisions in large/complex sourcing events (i.e.,

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Spend Matters

MARCH 12, 2025

And one way to do that is to rethink where organizations source from. To potential buyers Organizations are always looking for new sources and the resilience/agility agenda that has put discovery on the top of critical procurement capabilities.

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Spend Matters

JUNE 19, 2023

In this article, our analyst Bertrand Maltaverne looks at Sourcing. What does a Sourcing solution do? Sourcing solutions offer supporting content and services for managing market approaches (including category strategy), execution (e.g., RFx management and e-auctions) and portfolio/performance management.

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Spend Matters

JUNE 19, 2023

In this article, our analysts Xavier Olivera, Bertrand Maltaverne and Nikhil Gaur look at source-to-contract (S2C) solutions. What does a Source-to-Contract solution do? Top 4 Source-to-Contract tech modules What’s the state of different procurement technologies in the market today and do they meet user demands?

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Spend Matters

JUNE 19, 2023

In this article, our analysts Xavier Olivera, Bertrand Maltaverne and Nikhil Gaur look at source-to-pay (S2P) solutions. What does a Source-to-Pay solution do? Click to enlarge Contract lifecycle management (CLM) acts as the intermediary between upstream source-to-contract and downstream P2P processes.

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Spend Matters

DECEMBER 17, 2024

For those who do not have robust strategic sourcing to start with, the process efficiency, particularly for order-to-invoice to get the right price, will resonate most (i.e.: Consult TechMatch our tech selection tool that helps procurement and finance technology buyers quickly explore the market and identify best-fit solutions.

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Spend Matters

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

We believe these companies deserve greater visibility, especially in a market which is increasingly consolidating and diluting buyer choices. To potential buyers — Halo Ai’s founder has a background in procurement and has built the tool with procurement in mind and to replace current TPRM and GRC point solutions.

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