ivalua

MARCH 5, 2020

That includes quite a range of issues now, ranging from climate change and de-forestation to modern slavery or supporting diversity in our supply chains. Sometimes action can be taken by the buyer that either does not affect the supplier or just requires their agreement.

Collaboration 130

Collaboration Procurement Agile and Lean Supply Chain supply chain budgeting 130

Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Each stage contributes to a more strategic approach to procurement: Spend management: Despite the title, source to pay cannot really start with sourcing. In this way, the procurement function becomes a strategic business partner that not only contains costs but delivers true value and even helps to generate revenue.

Sourcing 52

Sourcing e2e Supply Chain Efficiency Strategic sourcing 52

Arkestro

MARCH 27, 2024

Resources / Blog / Unleashing the Power of Procurement Buyers: Delving into this Impactful Role Unleashing the Power of Procurement Buyers: Delving into this Impactful Role Buyers have always played an important role in the procurement industry, helping organizations obtain goods and maintain a careful balance of speed, cost-efficiency, and quality.

Buyers 52

Buyers supply chain budgeting Supply Chain Efficiency Procurement 52

Una

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Procurement professionals are now celebrated for their innovation, creativity, agility, and cost-saving initiatives. And let’s not forget the crucial role they play in driving diversity and sustainability within the supply chain. Reducing suppliers also helps mitigate risk throughout the supply chain.

Supply Chain Efficiency 105

Supply Chain Efficiency Procurement Purchase orders Real-time Visibility 105

ivalua

MAY 18, 2022

When it comes to the nature of buyer-supplier relationships, we’re entering a brave, new world. Even reducing costs often depends more on effective collaboration rather than negotiation in today’s market. To top it all off, extremely tight supply markets have further shifted negotiating leverage from buyers to suppliers.

Suppliers 130

Suppliers Management Supply Chain Efficiency Collaboration 130

Spend Matters

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Travel and Expense management leveraging SAP Concur is an easy plug in for travel spend management and all spend flowing through expense reporting. AI, GenAI and Joule SAP made some announcements about SAP Joule, its GenAI-powered copilot solution.

Networking 115

Networking Spend management Suppliers Supply Chain Optimization 115

TYA Suite

JANUARY 27, 2025

The real estate industry, characterized by intricate processes and substantial investments, constantly seeks ways to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and ensure timely project completion. This comprehensive solution streamlines procurement activities, improves and provides transparency across the entire supply chain.

Real-time Visibility 40

Real-time Visibility Management Procurement supply chain budgeting 40

ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

Contract Management: The piece that connects the upstream and the downstream, where value starts being captured. The contracts govern the relationship between the buyer and supplier, an essential process to inform Procure-to-Pay. Also included: supplier improvement plans, innovation plans and overall supplier collaboration.

Sourcing 130

Sourcing Real-time Visibility e2e supply chain software solutions 130

Pipefy

JANUARY 30, 2024

Procurement technology landscape Procurement technology is primarily designed to simplify procurement processes and reduce costs, but it’s grown to offer so many more benefits than that, with the greatest one being transforming procurement into a source of reliable strategic influence. Contract and compliance management.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 52

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

Procurement Software

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The experience of COVID-19 also showed that poorly managed vendor master data contributed to some of the delivery delays and supply chain disruption. These are usually not the household names with massive marketing budgets to sponsor glitzy conferences. Typically, this is the CFO. The outlook for procuretech is bright.

supply chain budgeting 52

supply chain budgeting Chief Procurement Officer supply chain software solutions Supply Chain Optimization 52

Planergy

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Sourcing Supply Chain Management. RFX – request for X – can refer to any request a buyer issues a vendor – thereby applying to any of these documents. Buyers can provide information about prices, quality, delivery times, and other important factors when purchasing. Lyle Del Vecchio. 15 min read.

Buyers 52

Buyers Supply Chain Efficiency Price Suppliers 52

Planergy

JULY 21, 2023

You set the budget and deliverables, then work with various freelancers with a test assignment. You don’t pay for the service if no content needs to be created, so there’s no need to keep a retainer or spend money on unused services, allowing for better control over spend management.

Management 52

Management Procurement supply chain budgeting Negotiation 52

Planergy

JANUARY 19, 2023

This would mean that 70% of your spending is going toward one type of product—in this case, stationery—and 30% is being spent on other types of office supplies. Pareto Spend Analysis is an incredibly useful tool for optimizing supply chain management processes, reducing costs, and improving overall efficiency.

supply chain budgeting 52

supply chain budgeting Procurement Supply Chain Efficiency Purchasing 52

Procurement Software

JULY 4, 2023

It aims to make the procurement process more efficient, transparent, and cost-effective. It can help organisations reduce costs, optimise supplier relationships and increase compliance. It has become an essential tool for companies in today’s digital world to save time and reduce costs.

Supply Chain Efficiency 52

Supply Chain Efficiency supply chain software solutions Procurement supply chain budgeting 52

Procurement Software

MARCH 5, 2024

Raindrop Raindrop is one of a number of US procurement startups offering enterprise-level spend management platforms. Raindrop has also been recognised as a cloud-enabled procurement focused Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) application. FRDM FRDM is a software company specialising in supply chain risk management.

Real-time Visibility 52

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

Planergy

AUGUST 8, 2023

They include: Open tendering Single-source procurement Two-stage tendering Restricted tendering Request for proposal (RFP) Request for quotation (RFQ) Your procurement team will determine which method to source goods and services based on what you need, when you need it, your budget, and other factors.

Sourcing 52

Sourcing Suppliers Procurement Bidding 52

Procurement Software

MARCH 11, 2022

Despite the movement towards a broader value-driven view of procurement excellence and how we contribute to the wider business (people, planet, profit), the reality is that even though there is a tacit, newly found appreciation that buyers deliver more than just bottom line savings, it often isn’t reflected in their annual objectives.

Procurement 52

Procurement supply chain budgeting Price Negotiation 52

Procurement Software

MARCH 11, 2022

Despite the movement towards a broader value-driven view of procurement excellence and how we contribute to the wider business (people, planet, profit), the reality is that even though there is a tacit, newly found appreciation that buyers deliver more than just bottom line savings, it often isn’t reflected in their annual objectives.

Procurement 52

Procurement supply chain budgeting Price Negotiation 52

Pipefy

DECEMBER 10, 2022

No matter the size of your company, how you structure your purchase process has a direct impact on your company’s ability to control costs, manage risks, and maintain process resilience as supply chains evolve. Purchasing teams are able to maintain a close watch on budgets, requesters, and requests.

Purchasing 52

Purchasing Supply Chain Efficiency Agile and Lean Supply Chain supply chain budgeting 52

Planergy

JANUARY 18, 2024

Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficiently by automating purchasing and invoice processing. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. What's Planergy?

Management 52

Management Procurement Supplier relationship management Real-time Visibility 52

Procurement Software

JUNE 13, 2023

It serves the needs of purchasing managers, procurement professionals and senior buyers. It enables users to allocate, manage and monitor budgets. Catalogue Management allows you to enjoy the e-commerce experience for your corporate supplies as you create requests faster and easier.

supply chain software solutions 52

supply chain software solutions Contract management Contract Sourcing 52

Pipefy

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Procurement solutions encompass a wide range of specific functions due to the many aspects of the procurement process, including purchase requests centralization, procure-to-pay, sourcing, budget management, supplier management, and forecasting. This platform allows users to access information in real-time from any location.

Procurement 52

Procurement Real-time Visibility Supply Chain Efficiency e2e 52

Jaggaer

JANUARY 14, 2020

Whether your organization is purchasing raw steel, injection molded plastics, or fully finished office supplies and IT equipment, a st reamlined P2P system can be a game changer. By optimizing the areas where you spend the most, your compan y and organization can drive significant savings in your supply chain.

Supply Chain Efficiency 40

Supply Chain Efficiency Raw materials supply chain budgeting Supply Chain Optimization 40

Procurement Software

JULY 9, 2024

Procurement tools for direct spend need to be tailored to work with your supply chain, quality and production teams. Indirect procurement software, however, centres around purchase order management , expense tracking, and vendor management for non-production items.

Raw materials 40

Raw materials supply chain software solutions Procurement Supply Chain Efficiency 40

Procurement Software

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Weproc Weproc is a small French company offering a SaaS eProcurement software with a focus on purchasing and spend management. Weproc aims to facilitate the management of Purchase Orders and invoices through a simple and efficient interface. Daato targets companies with complex supply chains and operations.

Supply Chain Efficiency 59

Supply Chain Efficiency supply chain software solutions Procurement Real-time Visibility 59

Procurement Software

MARCH 7, 2023

Improvements to end-to-end supply chain efficiency. These must be taken into account in order to save time and reduce costs. Your buyers, financial controllers and cost centre owners can easily track the history of all previous orders from any supplier or against any single cost centre.

Sourcing 64

Sourcing supply chain software solutions Procurement Agile and Lean Supply Chain 64

Procurement Software

MARCH 11, 2022

This can lead to supply chain disruption caused by storeroom stock-outs of critical spare parts. Incorrect incoterms are also one of the most common causes of supply chain disruption. Vendor master data management. Automated / guided tail spend management systems. Tail spend management platforms.

Data 52

Data Raw materials Procurement Suppliers 52

Procurement Software

MARCH 11, 2022

This can lead to supply chain disruption caused by storeroom stock-outs of critical spare parts. Incorrect incoterms are also one of the most common causes of supply chain disruption. Vendor master data management. Automated / guided tail spend management systems. Tail spend management platforms.

Data 52

Data Raw materials Procurement Suppliers 52

Procurement Software

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Improvements to end-to-end supply chain efficiency. These must be taken into account in order to save time and reduce costs. Nonetheless, these are the main advantages of using P2P and S2P software: Hard Cost Savings (H3). Reduction in maverick spend (H4). Efficient supplier management (H4).

Sourcing 52

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

Zycus Cognitive Procurement

JANUARY 31, 2023

5 Benefits of Effective Supplier Relationship Management Companies with advanced supplier relationship management capabilities tend to outperform their peers. Reduced costs: Effective supplier relationship management brings a range of benefits to businesses.

Supplier relationship management 40

Supplier relationship management Suppliers Management Supply Chain Efficiency 40

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

It breaks the bond between Buyer and Supplier, resulting in fragile supply chains and lots of mistrust. When this started for me, I’d hoped that after twenty years of evolution, AP would be touchless, compliant and low cost. Is there a budget and contract (the purchase order is a contract) for these items?

supply chain budgeting 237

supply chain budgeting Purchase orders Networking Buyers 237

Procurement Software

MARCH 11, 2022

Instead of looking at direct materials and purchased parts, the hidden opportunity is often found in effective tail spend management. The best opportunities now lie in tail spend management. This is usually areas of indirect spend which have previously been relatively unexplored. What is tail spend?

Spend management 52

Spend management Management Real-time Visibility Competitive bidding 52

Procurement Software

MARCH 11, 2022

Instead of looking at direct materials and purchased parts, the hidden opportunity is often found in effective tail spend management. The best opportunities now lie in tail spend management. This is usually areas of indirect spend which have previously been relatively unexplored. What is tail spend?

Spend management 52

Spend management Management Real-time Visibility Competitive bidding 52

Pipefy

MAY 23, 2023

Supplier relationship management Tension is never pleasant, but only those procurement professionals who pinpoint lacking supplier relationships can evaluate and rectify the situation. Life cycle management. Empower and engage suppliers A fast, hassle-free onboarding process is a great way to start a buyer/supplier relationship.

Procurement solutions 52

Procurement solutions Procurement e2e supply chain software solutions 52

Procurement Insights

APRIL 20, 2025

Coupa Coupa Blog: AI costs can vary unpredictably based on task complexity, such as token usage for LLMs, requiring careful budgeting. Coupas discussion on AI spend management highlights cost variability as a downside of Agentic AI systems. Irrelevant sources (e.g., digital marketing) were excluded.

Quality 52

Quality Risk Data Suppliers 52