Spend Matters

JANUARY 5, 2024

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.

e2e 78

e2e Procurement supply chain software solutions Contract 78

Spend Matters

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Today, for procurement organizations too, applying an AI-first approach has become imperative, especially in the source-to-pay process. Generative AI, in particular, offers transformative potential in optimizing source-to-pay processes. And the maximum value can be extracted from these new tools through strategic integration.

Procurement solutions 84

Procurement solutions Procurement e2e Real-time Visibility 84

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.

Market analysis 85

Market analysis e2e Contract management Spend management 85

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.

e2e 78

e2e Management Buyers Contract 78

Spend Matters

OCTOBER 4, 2023

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.

Procurement 90

Procurement e2e Contract Sourcing 90

ivalua

JULY 21, 2021

REV Group embarked on its sourcing and procurement transformation earlier this year, which included four appointments to REV’s global sourcing and supply chain team, representing the Fire & Emergency, Commercial and Recreation segments. Benefits include: Shortened sourcing cycle times. 100% visibility of sourcing processes.

Supply Chain Efficiency 130

Supply Chain Efficiency Supply Chain Optimization Supply chain Competitive bidding 130

World of Procurement blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

Over Christmas, I started thinking about the top Contract Management trends for 2022. One general observation I have of us Contract Managers is that there is a fantastic opportunity to become more closely aligned with our Legal colleagues. To make massive improvements to how your business operates from a contracts perspective.

Contract management 52

Contract management Contract Management e2e 52

Procurement Tactics

JUNE 28, 2023

Contract Management Contract Management is tracking the contractual lifecycle, including contract creation, renewal, and termination dates. Compliance with the agreed terms and conditions of a contract, as well as respect for the obligations arising from it, shall also be monitored.

Supply Chain Efficiency 178

Supply Chain Efficiency Procurement supply chain software solutions supply chain budgeting 178

ivalua

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Many large organizations implement a Procure to Pay platform with the aim to deliver efficiency, visibility, simplicity, and compliance. The ultimate goal is to realize contracted savings and ensure that suppliers ‘perform to contract’. Procurement as end-to-end process owner .

e2e 130

e2e Suppliers Procurement Contract 130

IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Why supply chain management matters Supply chain management involves coordinating and managing all the activities involved in sourcing , procurement, conversion and logistics. A supply chain control tower can connect many sources of data-driven information and improve end-to-end visibility.

supply chain software solutions 88

supply chain software solutions Supply chain management Supply chain management Supply Chain Efficiency 88

Procurement Heads

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

It’s all the things you would expect in terms of robust Sourcing, SRM and category management across our supply chain, working closely with our business stakeholders and achieving excellent year-on-year results against an ever-increasing set of challenging KPIs. What roles and responsibilities does Procurement/ SRM have within Allianz?

e2e 246

e2e supply chain budgeting Agile and Lean Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer 246

ivalua

OCTOBER 29, 2019

If they needed contract management, they put a contract management system in place. This, in turn, opens the door to powerful analytics engines and AI-fueled applications that can answer increasingly complex questions by pulling data from more than one source or transaction. Frankly, they are struggling.

e2e 145

e2e Bidding Contract management Contract 145

ivalua

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Suppliers need bidding and contract transparency. It is one thing to make tenders public, and another to offer suppliers visibility into the end-to-end bid management process and final award decisions. Worse still, a lack of structure might suggest that no one is truly managing the spend.

e2e 113

e2e Procurement Bidding Suppliers 113

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.

Supply Chain Efficiency 130

Supply Chain Efficiency Real-time Visibility e2e Buyers 130

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.

e2e 133

e2e Procurement Purchase orders Project management 133

Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Even if logistics teams are more responsible for operational fulfillment, procurement still has a massive impact on it in terms of the initial design of the supply network (Design For Supply) and in the contracting of conditions (prices, Incoterm, MOQ, etc.).

Risk management 73

Risk management Supply Chain Optimization Risk Supply chain 73

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. There was still a lack of functionality, particularly in contract management.

e2e 97

e2e Contract Contract management Procurement 97

ivalua

JUNE 11, 2019

At some point, there was a need for this, a solicitation process to select a supplier, a competitive bidding process, a contract negotiation, transactions and so on. Increased Transparency: Greater visibility for all as to the opportunities available (or already planned) to work with city and state agencies.

Procurement 169

Procurement Real-time Visibility e2e Competitive bidding 169

Procurement Tactics

AUGUST 19, 2022

Vendor sourcing . Contract negotiations. Simply negotiating the pricing and performance leads to the completion of the contract. It includes features such as built-in mobility, workforce visibility, automation process, increased security, and advanced reporting. . Collaboration. Oracle HCM cloud. LEARN MORE.

Vendor management 130

Vendor management Management e2e Negotiation 130

Pipefy

MARCH 28, 2024

Users pose questions in a conversation with a bot, which answers them based on: An AI model that uses large amounts of structured and unstructured data from many sources, and ML that rapidly searches the data for the most relevant answer. This step often requires a map of every task within the organization for full visibility.

e2e 52

e2e Real-time Visibility Data Sourcing 52

Procurement Heads

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

It’s all the things you would expect in terms of robust Sourcing, SRM and category management across our supply chain, working closely with our business stakeholders and achieving excellent year-on-year results against an ever-increasing set of challenging KPIs. What roles and responsibilities does Procurement/ SRM have within Allianz?

e2e 130

e2e supply chain budgeting Agile and Lean Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer 130

IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

It can nurture collaborative partnerships with suppliers and integrate ethical and environmental (green purchasing) considerations into the sourcing strategy. Building strong supplier relationships to encourage favorable contracts and service is also a common goal. Be flexible.

Procurement strategies 73

Procurement strategies Strategy Procurement Supply Chain Efficiency 73

Spend Matters

AUGUST 31, 2023

Productiv found that the average business has 371 SaaS apps (up 32% over the past two years) and that 85% of SaaS contracts are one-year agreements (up 6%). Not only does a high number of collaboration apps have the potential to actually hinder collaboration (a productivity cost), it’s also a huge source of wasted spend.

Data 100

Data Vendor management Procurement e2e 100

SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 14, 2023

It has made visible changes in the SCM systems. These participants start transactions in the network through smart contracts. This empowers all partners to follow the excursion of items from the source to the end client progressively, upgrading responsibility and lessening the gamble of misrepresentation or fake products.

Supply Chain Efficiency 87

Supply Chain Efficiency supply chain software solutions Supply chain management Supply chain management 87

Pipefy

MAY 23, 2023

It also provides visibility into your entire invoice workflow, from issuance to payment. End-to-end integrations A new digital procurement tool may replace a few software systems in your tech stack. Document management Digital contract management should be included in any e-procurement tool; it’s that important.

Procurement solutions 52

Procurement solutions Procurement e2e supply chain software solutions 52

ivalua

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Enormous, complex, global enterprises use procurement technology to manage their spend, suppliers, contracts and bids every day without seeming to run into the same stumbling blocks as the public sector, which operates on a smaller and more localized basis.

e2e 113

e2e Bidding Contract Budget 113

Spend Matters

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Strategic sourcing remains critical, especially given our inflationary environment. What we do know is that supply chains often account for more than 90% of a company’s environmental footprint, and SAP can help provide visibility into the data across this value chain. A recurring request is to reduce risk and contain costs.

Procurement 103

Procurement Supply Chain Efficiency Category management e2e 103

Empowering CPO

JULY 16, 2023

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 52

Supply Chain Efficiency Procurement Supply Chain Optimization supply chain budgeting 52

Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 25, 2023

However, one McKinsey study found that 7% of CPG companies apply end to end autonomous planning. Decision trees for the most common IBP decisions can be made like this for Finance, Sales, Marketing, Operation & Sourcing, highlighting where there is automation and augmentation potential. Some go as far as 80%.

e2e 88

e2e Supply Chain Efficiency Supply Chain Optimization Leadership 88

Arkestro

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Supply Chain Visibility. Supply chain visibility is another critical issue. Visibility provides regulatory and consumer assurance in the face of issues like counterfeiting. To combat these issues, health and pharma need supply chain visibility—all the way down the supply chain. Climate change is also a massive issue.

Real-time Visibility 52

Real-time Visibility Procurement e2e Raw materials 52

ivalua

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Spend analysis — Improves negotiation position and leverage and increases contract compliance by correctly aggregating spend to the appropriate parent supplier. Terms and conditions — Applies the appropriate terms to the supplier when it has multiple business entities and contracts. Some examples include: .

Data 130

Data Suppliers Management Procurement 130

ivalua

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

To cover your full master data needs, Procurement should work with all internal stakeholders to map out the supplier lifecycle from end to end. The model should also include the best source for each piece of master data, whether it’s the supplier, an internal group or a third party like D&B.

Supply Chain Optimization 113

Supply Chain Optimization Data Suppliers Procurement 113

Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Lack of Visibility Beyond Tier 1. According to the 2021 Deloitte Chief Procurement Officer Survey, “Around 70% of CPOs felt that they had good visibility on the risks that existed in their direct (tier 1) suppliers. And, only 15% had visibility into tier 2 or beyond. Dirty Little Secret #1.

supply chain budgeting 89

supply chain budgeting Procurement Supply Chain Efficiency e2e 89

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. Concluding the presentation, Sam shares a story of being at a conference in June and hearing a CPO saying, ‘We need an end-to-end solution.

e2e 52

e2e Real-time Visibility Supply chain resilience Risk management 52

Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 29, 2021

Now there are increasingly competitive and political pressures to bolster their domestic production, resume hiring, and minimize or eliminate their reliance on external sources that are perceived as risky. The impending changes include connected, end-to-end, value chains, and more intelligent, automated, and autonomous distribution systems.

Supply Chain Optimization 135

Supply Chain Optimization Supply Chain Efficiency Agile and Lean Supply Chain supply chain software solutions 135

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.

Sourcing 130

Sourcing Real-time Visibility e2e supply chain software solutions 130

Empowering CPO

JULY 16, 2023

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

Supply Chain Efficiency Management Procurement Supply Chain Optimization 40