IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

For example, the IBM Sterling Transaction Manager automates manual transactions between businesses and suppliers. This helps reduce errors to improve data quality and response times to questions, which improves customer and supplier satisfaction. Try out cognitive intelligence free for 30-days.

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Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Working within a resilient global supply chain results in complexities around basic matters like communication, time zones and languages, along with more challenging aspects like risk management, compliance and sustainability. Third-party risk management through a specialized vendor moves beyond the onboarding and intake process.

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TYA Suite

MAY 23, 2025

This statistic shows a real and common problem in many companies today. Vendor informationlike contracts, certificates, and performance reportsis often stored in different places. Now let's discuss how the right software can solve these problems and bring real value to your business. making it faster and more organized.

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Procurement Software

JUNE 20, 2023

The contract management software market is hot right now. Organisations seem to have finally realised that they’ve suffered from having a “desk drawer” approach to contracts. Being able to manage your contracts in one place, author them, approve them and sign them is a massive productivity boost.

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 8, 2024

Introduction to Contract Management Contract management is the process of systematically and efficiently managing contract creation, execution, and analysis to maximize operational and financial performance at an organization. Lease agreements - Contracts for renting equipment, real estate, vehicles, etc.

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Jaggaer

JULY 7, 2020

Over time, this engagement has expanded globally and is still focused on one of the most testing categories of sourcing and contract management within procurement: transport and logistics. In 2019 the company decided to embark on a project to implement global dashboards for sourcing and contracting events. The Solution.

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Spend Matters

DECEMBER 21, 2023

AI can help create greater efficiency and value across all source-to-pay processes, including spend analysis, opportunity identification, sourcing and contract management, category management, supply relationship management and risk management.

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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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Procurement Software

MAY 16, 2023

The software automates workflows and approvals, manages supplier catalogues, and provides real-time analytics for better decision-making. The module also includes features such as contract management, invoice processing, and payment processing.

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Procurement Insights

MAY 22, 2025

Core Platform and Capabilities Third Party Operating System (OS) Digital Backbone: Certas platform acts as a single, modular, and scalable operating system for managing all third-party relationships, including suppliers, customers, and partners. SAP GRC Real-time GRC and risk management for SAP-centric organizations.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 4, 2024

Conversely, it has a larger scope than task management, which deals with individual tasks, and project management, which handles one-time initiatives. By establishing standardized workflows and decision rules, BPM streamlines the claims process by reducing processing times and minimizing errors.

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 20, 2024

A dedicated CLM platform provides the automation, control, and analytics procurement teams need to maximize the value of contracts while minimizing risk. With the right CLM solution in place, procurement can achieve end-to-end visibility into the contracting process, reduce cycle times, and eliminate inefficient manual tasks.

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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.

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Barkers Procurement

APRIL 7, 2025

Challenge Solution Results Challenge Guide Dogs faced a pressing challengetheir ageing procurement system was nearing the end of its life and needed urgent replacement. While it had served its purpose, this was a chance to modernise, unlocking cost savings, efficiency, and better spend visibility.

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Pipefy

JANUARY 30, 2024

Improvements to existing procurement processes, procedures, and operations are as time-sensitive as ever. From procure-to-pay software to spend management and analysis tools, procurement technologies are disrupting the status quo and bringing efficiency to teams like never before.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 52

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Near-sourcing, in addition to lowering emissions, also cuts transportation costs and delivery times. Technology that streamlines and automates transactions and contract management can significantly reduce these errors and expedite sourcing processes.

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Pipefy

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

This process grants transparency and visibility into purchase orders and approvals to a sometimes surprising degree. These tools are classified according to the procurement functions they perform, including contract management, informing, ordering, sourcing, and tendering. What are e-procurement tools?

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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. The platform also offers supply and risk management insights.

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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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World of Procurement blog

MAY 10, 2024

Monitoring supplier relationships : AI can track supplier performance metrics, analyze contract terms for risks, and identify opportunities to improve supplier relationships. Enhancing contract management : Natural language processing enables AI to extract key data from contracts.

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Empowering CPO

JULY 16, 2023

This is where managed procurement services come into the picture. Managed procurement services can be defined as an external service that helps streamline a company’s acquisition processes, offering an end-to-end solution that takes into account all aspects of procurement – from sourcing to payment.

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Procurement Software

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Feature highlights include: Easy to use five-category classifications, best in class enterprise taxonomy, the ability to gain insights from trend analysis and organisation behaviours, 100% spend visibility and proprietary machine learning algorithms designed to deliver accuracy. M&A) The solution gives you full spend visibility.

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Procurement Software

JULY 4, 2023

It also provides real-time data and analytics that can be used to improve purchasing decisions. Ultimately, digital procurement enables organisations to enhance the overall procurement experience, as well as increase efficiencies and transform their end-to-end procurement function. What is procurement tech?

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Procurement Software

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The company offers a simple and competitively priced contract management solution. These centralise all your company’s contract documents, giving you a top-down view of the entire contract portfolio. It generates insights on bottlenecks, variants, and cycle times to drive process improvements.

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Empowering CPO

JUNE 25, 2023

They were time-consuming, error-prone, and lacked the sophistication to handle large volumes of data or complex analyses. Over time, these tools evolved into standalone software applications that automated data collection and provided basic analytical capabilities.

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Procurement Software

JULY 18, 2023

Procoto offers features including: Strategic sourcing Smart databasing Workflow approvals RFP management Data transformation The platform’s tools and analytics aim to level the playing field between small and large companies – giving leverage to SMEs. It gives you full visibility of your spend data, all in one place.

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Pipefy

JANUARY 31, 2023

This complexity creates headaches for procurement teams and fuels an error-prone and resource-consuming approval loop that obstructs visibility into the approval process. If this step is not centralized or if it’s being manually processed, it can become very time-consuming. Below are six signs of an inefficient approval process.

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Pipefy

JUNE 15, 2023

This end-to-end system’s built-in collaboration and data analysis tools eliminate process friction commonly created by manual or disjointed workflows. This dashboard shows progress bars for each task, resulting in 360-degree visibility over procurement that organizations can use to identify bottlenecks that are impacting efficiency.

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Empowering CPO

JULY 16, 2023

This is where managed procurement services come into the picture. Managed procurement services can be defined as an external service that helps streamline a company’s acquisition processes, offering an end-to-end solution that takes into account all aspects of procurement – from sourcing to payment.

Supply Chain Efficiency 40

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Procurement Software

JANUARY 23, 2024

If you’re a consultancy, an investor, or a solution provider and need to do deeper analysis of the market, we also offer subscriptions to our back end database , with all data points searchable. Inhubber Inhubber is a contract management and digital signature platform powered by blockchain and AI.

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Pipefy

MAY 23, 2023

Because of this, carrying out its operations manually is time-consuming and incredibly expensive for businesses. Savvy leaders are quickly adopting e-procurement solutions to lower the time, costs, silos, and strained supplier relationships that plague manual operations.

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Spend Matters

MAY 12, 2025

At the same time, finance may not have full visibility into supplier costs, contract terms or procurement-driven risks, leading to budgeting inaccuracies and inefficiencies in cash flow management. Disconnected workflows result in: Delayed approvals for supplier contracts and payments.

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Procurement Insights

JANUARY 19, 2025

Reference : Top 20 supply chain management software suppliers, 2015 GEP SMART : Overview : GEP SMART offered a unified procurement platform encompassing spend analysis, sourcing, contract management, and supplier management. Robust supplier risk management tools. Key Features : AI-powered contract management.

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