ContractSafe

JUNE 11, 2025

ContractSafe is purpose-built to be simple from day one—so you can start uploading, organizing, tracking, and managing contracts in minutes, not months. Forget complex rollouts, weeks of training, and frustrating tech hurdles.

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Contract management Contract Management 91

Spend Matters

JANUARY 20, 2025

This Spend Matters Vendor Analysis provides an overview of ContractSafe and its contract lifecycle management (CLM) solution. ContractSafe focuses on ease of use and attacking common contract management pain points, such as lack of visibility, poor organization and lengthy/expensive implementations. This content is for members only.

Contract 117

Contract e2e Management Contract management 117

Spend Matters

MARCH 17, 2025

This Spend Matters Vendor Analysis provides an overview of Intellyse and its solution for logistics and contract negotiation. Many organizations struggle to find the time and resources needed to thoroughly analyze the contract offers they receive. Contracts often come in various formats, each with its own set of complex stipulations.

Negotiation 78

Negotiation Contract Logistics Contract management 78

ContractSafe

JUNE 18, 2025

With more contracts flowing in and team members taking their vacations, there's a real need to keep everything efficient, compliant, and under control. This is exactly why having solid contract management processes and tools in place is key to a stress-free summer.

Contract management 59

Contract management Contract Management 59

ivalua

MAY 16, 2025

Implementing procurement software best practices begins with understanding the full scope of the Source-to-Pay (S2P) process – the end-to-end workflow that includes supplier management, sourcing, contract lifecycle management (CLM), purchasing, invoicing, payments and spend analytics.

Real-time Visibility 130

Real-time Visibility Procurement e2e Contract 130

ivalua

JUNE 9, 2025

By automating routine tasks like onboarding a suppliers, kicking off a sourcing event, invoice matching, purchase order consolidation, and contract reviews, AI enables automated procurement workflows and reduces operational costs. This is where AI can make a huge difference.

Sourcing 130

Sourcing Procurement Real-time Visibility Procurement team 130

ivalua

MAY 29, 2025

Here are some key distinctions to make between Procurement vs. Supply Chain Management: Procurement is responsible for identifying suppliers, negotiating contracts, and ensuring cost-effective, compliant purchases. Procurement teams negotiate long-term contracts to lock in pricing, mitigate supply chain risk , and ensure supply continuity.

Supply chain management 130

Supply chain management Supply chain management Supply Chain Efficiency Agile and Lean Supply Chain 130

ivalua

JUNE 12, 2025

It helps identify contract leakage and improve supplier performance, and insights can be used to support ESG initiatives and enable more strategic sourcing. Contract Spend Analysis: Tracks spend against contract terms to uncover leakage, ensure value realization, and reduce cost inefficiencies.

supply chain budgeting 130

supply chain budgeting Risk Real-time Visibility Supply Chain Efficiency 130

ivalua

JUNE 5, 2025

Procurement is the end-to-end process of identifying business needs, sourcing goods and services, negotiating contracts, and managing supplier relationships over time. Procurement is a strategic function focused on selecting suppliers, negotiating contracts, managing supply chain risk, and ensuring long-term value creation.

Purchasing 130

Purchasing Risk Procurement e2e 130

Procurement Freelancers

JUNE 18, 2025

Why CEOs Should Review Their Top 10 Supplier Contracts Annually Summary: Strategic oversight: Annual reviews… The post Why CEOs Should Review Their Top 10 Supplier Contracts Annually first appeared on Procurement Blog | Procurement & Supply Chain News.

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Contract Suppliers Supply chain Procurement 45

ivalua

JULY 1, 2025

Core Operational Focus Areas A modern strategy must prioritize foundational capabilities, including spend analysis , vendor management, contract lifecycle management, and risk management. You can see how this applies in areas like contract lifecycle management , where visibility into obligations and clauses can influence sourcing strategy.

Procurement strategies 130

Procurement strategies Strategy Real-time Visibility Procurement 130

ivalua

JULY 1, 2025

Core Operational Focus Areas A modern strategy must prioritize foundational capabilities, including spend analysis , vendor management, contract lifecycle management, and risk management. You can see how this applies in areas like contract lifecycle management , where visibility into obligations and clauses can influence sourcing strategy.

Procurement strategies 130

Procurement strategies Strategy Real-time Visibility Procurement 130

Procurement Templates

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Legal and Compliance Knowledge Actionable Steps: Learn Contract Law Basics: Understand key contract clauses like force majeure, indemnity, and termination rights. Consult Legal Teams: Collaborate with in-house legal experts to draft and review procurement contracts. SAP, Oracle) Procurement software (e.g., Coursera, Udemy).

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 130

Agile and Lean Supply Chain supply chain budgeting Supply Chain Optimization supply chain software solutions 130

ivalua

JULY 3, 2025

Capturing Value: A contract is established that governs the responsibilities and obligations of both supplier and buyer, as well as when the organization has the right Procure-to-Pay processes in place, to ensure compliance to those agreements, goods, services, and prices.

supply chain budgeting 130

supply chain budgeting Procurement e2e Agile and Lean Supply Chain 130

ivalua

JULY 7, 2025

This requires high-level of supplier self-service, together with Contract and/or Goods/Service Receipt matching. 2) PO and Contract Matching Matching logic is essential for accurate invoice processing, because it ensures that what you’re paying for matches what was ordered and received. The result?

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ivalua

MAY 30, 2025

For example, agentic AI can analyze supplier data, evaluate contracts, manage purchase orders, or recommend sourcing strategies. Natural Language Processing (NLP): Allows AI agents to interpret and generate human language, which proves useful for analyzing contracts, processing vendor communications, and understanding internal requests.

Procurement 130

Procurement Supply Chain Optimization supply chain software solutions Procurement team 130

ivalua

MAY 30, 2025

For example, agentic AI can analyze supplier data, evaluate contracts, manage purchase orders, or recommend sourcing strategies. Natural Language Processing (NLP): Allows AI agents to interpret and generate human language, which proves useful for analyzing contracts, processing vendor communications, and understanding internal requests.

Procurement 130

Procurement Supply Chain Optimization supply chain software solutions Procurement team 130

Jaggaer

MAY 21, 2025

By implementing JAGGAERs digital procurement solutions, the County is transforming how it manages sourcing, compliance, and contract workflows across departments. Lack of visibility across departments, impeding effective tracking of spending and contract status.

Contract 52

Contract Sourcing Real-time Visibility Procurement 52

Supply Chain Dive

MAY 14, 2025

As a potential May 22 strike nears, the carrier said halting negotiations with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers will allow it to prepare more effective proposals.

Contract 72

Contract Negotiation 72

ivalua

MAY 21, 2025

This includes leveraging tools such as digital sourcing platforms, eprocurement software, contract lifecycle management (CLM), supplier management, data analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline procurement operations. Legal and Compliance By embedding intelligent controls throughout the contract lifecycle.

Real-time Visibility 130

Real-time Visibility Procurement Agile and Lean Supply Chain e2e 130

Spend Matters

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Additionally, it can model and marry a variety of data alongside the spend, from contracts to risk. To potential buyers — SpendHQ has over a decade of experience in spend analytics and procurement performance management and brings a breadth of analytics not only in spend but in related areas such as contracts, risk and carbon emissions.

Procurement team 118

Procurement team Market analysis Strategic sourcing Strategic sourcing 118

Supply Chain Dive

MAY 13, 2025

The agreement comes nearly six years after FedEx let its Express and Ground shipping contracts with the e-commerce giant expire.

Contract 114

Contract 114

ivalua

MAY 2, 2025

For example, a single contract negotiation might involve supplier performance data, legal terms, payment histories, and risk assessments. Data Consistency and Accuracy: A single source of truth ensures that all AI agents draw from the same dataset—whether that’s supplier performance metrics, contract terms, purchase orders, or invoices.

Procurement 130

Procurement Real-time Visibility Contract Data 130

Spend Matters

JANUARY 9, 2025

Metrics such as reducing supplier numbers, increasing digital contract usage and enhancing sourcing efficiency are common priorities. KPIs like risk reduction, shorter procurement cycle times, savings on supplier contracts and improved on-time delivery rates help show why technology investments are necessary.

Procurement 121

Procurement Procurement team Contract Supply Chain Efficiency 121

Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

For the third piece of tech, a contract management system, the Legal Department was a strong ally. It has completely changed our end-to-end enterprise contracting process. The team launched many new sourcing opportunities and engaged with stakeholders in different ways resulting in other positive impacts for the company.

Influencing 104

Influencing Procurement supply chain budgeting e2e 104

Spend Matters

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Many spend analytics vendors apply that analytical expertise elsewhere, such as contracts, carbon emissions or supplier performance. Spend analytics vendors do what their name implies: they derive insights from spend data. However, that is not all they are capable of doing.

Risk management 118

Risk management Risk Management Contract 118

ivalua

JUNE 24, 2025

When ERP workflows are rigid, sourcing and contracting are hard to manage, and teams must work around system limitations by using spreadsheets and disconnected tools. They may avoid using the system, and that results in more inconsistent processes, more off-contract purchasing and, ultimately, more confusion.

Procurement 130

Procurement Real-time Visibility e2e Procurement team 130

Spend Matters

APRIL 10, 2025

The days of relying solely on traditional processes to manage suppliers, contracts and spend are quickly fading. Optical character recognition (OCR) digitizes invoices and contracts, eliminating time-consuming manual data entry. Procurement is at a crossroads. AI does more than just improve efficiency.

Supply Chain Efficiency 105

Supply Chain Efficiency Procurement Supply Chain Optimization Procurement team 105

Procurement Templates

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Consider which projects or contracts require a plan B. In first instance you need to get your procurement house in order to deliver projects on time but once a contract is awarded you can work with stakeholders to track project delivery, whether if these are delivered to the agreed timescales.

Procurement 130

Procurement Supply Chain Efficiency Cost of ownership supply chain budgeting 130

ivalua

JUNE 3, 2025

Business Impact : Automation of sourcing and contracting tasks, cutting cycle times by as much as 40%. How to Gain Similar ROI: Transition to a single S2P platform to centralize all sourcing, contracting, purchasing and invoicing activities. Savings Achieved: Over $24.2 million in procurement efficiencies over three years.

Real-time Visibility 130

Real-time Visibility e2e supply chain software solutions Supply Chain Efficiency 130