Spend Matters

MARCH 26, 2024

This content does not express the views or opinions of Spend Matters. In today’s dynamic business landscape, effective spend management is crucial for maintaining financial controls and achieving sustainable growth. Employees may struggle to perform simple tasks, leading to frustration and reduced adoption rates.

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Una

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Amplify Your Business Spend Management Strategies with a GPO. Una leverages over $100 billion in buying power to negotiate best-price contracts with hundreds of the nation’s top suppliers. Una leverages over $100 billion in buying power to negotiate best-price contracts with hundreds of the nation’s top suppliers.

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Procurement Express

DECEMBER 31, 2024

In any case, organizations need to pull indirect spending out of the shadows and into the open. In this article, we’ll go over a few ways to improve the process: education, gaining spend visibility , categorizing spend by supplier or department, etc. What Happens When Indirect Spend Isnt Managed?

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Planergy

MAY 8, 2025

Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. How to report and analyze indirect spend to identify savings opportunities.

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Una

AUGUST 17, 2022

A comprehensive guide designed to tame tail spend in a way that leads to reduced risk and increased cost savings. Taming Tail Spend. This comprehensive guide will go over tail spend in procurement and provide resources for how to implement an effective tail spend management strategy. Next is the tail.

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Jaggaer

MARCH 24, 2025

Together, they enable procurement teams to move from reactive to proactive, optimizing sourcing strategies, improving supplier negotiations, and ensuring more accurate, real-time decision-making. Impact on Procurement: Spend analytics give CPOs visibility into spending patterns, supplier performance, and inefficiencies.

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 12, 2025

ProcureTech Solution Providers and Agentic AI Stances Agentic AI in procurement involves AI agents handling tasks like sourcing, contract management, and supplier coordination with minimal human oversight, often integrated into platforms like SAP or Coupa. Human Replacement?: SAP emphasizes augmentation, not replacement. cosmetics $0.07/unit

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Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Spend Matters has been speaking with procurement practitioners and solution providers to get a wide view of how procurement and digital transformation is happening in the real world. And in the real workplace, thats where those decisions come from rather than procurement itself. Her first piece of advice would be: Dont.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Lifted from their latest webinar, Jean-Baptiste Anne from Amazon Business and Vishal Patel from Ivalua offer insights into tail spend management programs and the ROI these programs can generate for procurement teams. . Lack of control or visibility into what is being spent and with which suppliers. Who purchased it.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Ivalua Spend Management Insights [ivory-search] Procurement Rising: The Silent Inflation Tax on Manufacturers February 27, 2023 | | Manufacturing by Doug Keeley Last year, the Consumer Price Index was the highest it has been in four decades, making inflation one of the most concerning macroeconomic factors facing the business world today.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The Power of Source-to-Pay Digital Transformation To put it briefly, source-to-pay refers to the entire process that starts with finding, negotiating with, and contracting the suppliers of materials, goods and services, and culminates in the final payment for those items. These begin with enhanced visibility.

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ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

Similar to how CRM manages everything around the customer, an S2P platform manages everything around the supplier. ​ It is a crucial process for organizations that are looking to streamline their procurement activities, better manage spend and suppliers and increase operational efficiency.

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Procurement Insights

JANUARY 19, 2025

Notable among these were: SAP Ariba : Overview : SAP Ariba provided comprehensive procurement and supply chain solutions, facilitating efficient supplier collaboration and spend management. Significance : Oracle’s comprehensive suite enabled organizations to manage procurement activities within a unified platform.

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Una

OCTOBER 17, 2023

EPISODE 137 Using Visibility to Combat Supply Chain Abstraction with Frank Kenney By Kelly Barner | October 18, 2023 In the race to build global empires of data and digital systems, today’s businesses must not risk forgetting what all of those zeroes and ones mean.

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ivalua

JANUARY 24, 2022

Data is central to successful digital transformation to relay real-time information and greater visibility into operations and resource allocation. Data builds the bridge between your own internal supply chain visibility and the information you provide to your stakeholders. Timeliness is also important.

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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. From sourcing construction materials to hiring contractors, a well-organized is essential for timely project completion and cost control.

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Planergy

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. How better management in AP can give you better flexibility for cash flow management. What's PLANERGY?

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Redwood City, CA – Feb 24, 2021 – Ivalua , a global leader in Cloud Spend Management solutions , today announced the general availability of its new platform release 168. The release includes a broad set of innovations to help organizations better manage their spend and suppliers. About Ivalua.

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The Procuretech Podcast

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

If we look at contract and spend management, we're looking at the bottom of the pyramid. But if we look at the top of the pyramid, we look at other ways to create value such as innovation, shared R&D, different areas of performance management. Is there a niche or sector that real-time SRM works for best?

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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

Mid-market businesses, on the other hand, could invest in this software and easily see a quick return if they have the right change management and procurement talent in place. Above $1 billion businesses are typically a target of established, enterprise source-to-pay and source-to-contract suites.

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Planergy

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficiently by automating purchasing and invoice processing. Cristian Maradiaga King Ocean Book a Live Demo Download a free copy of "Indirect Spend Guide", to learn: Where the best opportunities for savings are in indirect spend.

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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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Planergy

MARCH 24, 2025

Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. How to report and analyze indirect spend to identify savings opportunities.

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TYA Suite

APRIL 13, 2025

Think of it as a roadmap that guides a purchase order through the right handsfrom the employee who needs the item to the manager who approves the budget, and finally to the finance team that processes the payment. By automating and standardizing these steps, businesses save time, reduce errors, and maintain control over spending.

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Planergy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Cristian Maradiaga King Ocean Book a Live Demo Download a free copy of "Indirect Spend Guide", to learn: Where the best opportunities for savings are in indirect spend. How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. How to report and analyze indirect spend to identify savings opportunities.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

MARCH 5, 2025

Leveraging Reveels unique position in parcel spend management within the Supply Chain/Logistics ecosystem, Marc collaborates with adjacent solutions to provide comprehensive offerings for high-volume shippers. 15.51] How Reveels Parcel Spend Management and Deposcos supply chain technology work together through deep integration.

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ivalua

APRIL 27, 2023

Ivalua Spend Management Insights [ivory-search] A Balancing Act: Drive Sustainability while Managing Cost and Risk April 27, 2023 | | Supply Chain by Vishal Patel Cost, Risk, and Sustainability. The question is, how do you balance all three while maintaining continuous operations and generating revenue at the same time?

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TYA Suite

APRIL 13, 2025

These issues can waste time, increase expenses, and cause frustration for your team. Without a proper system, it becomes harder to track budgets, follow company rules, and manage suppliers. Over time, these small problems add up, making it difficult to grow smoothly. Thats why switching to an can help.

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Una

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Once the relevant information has been collected, you’ll be able to prioritize how best to direct your resources and time. Procurement professionals will be less consumed by endless supplier relationship management (SRM), negotiations, and the processing of purchase orders or invoices. Consolidate your supplier lists.

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Planergy

MARCH 18, 2025

Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. Tools like PLANERGY enhance supply chain resilience by providing real-time tracking, data-driven insights, and streamlined communication with suppliers.

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Barkers Procurement

APRIL 7, 2025

Determined to transform the way they work, they embarked on a bold journey, choosing Coupa as their cutting-edge spend management platform and partnering with Barkers for expert implementation. While it had served its purpose, this was a chance to modernise, unlocking cost savings, efficiency, and better spend visibility.

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Procurement Software

MARCH 11, 2022

As I’m sure you’re aware, there are a dizzying number of procurement software companies out there who claim to offer spend analytics in some form. On the one hand, suites which cover spend analysis alongside other procure-to-pay or source-to-contract functionality are packaged as part of an all-in-one offering. non-compliant).

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Procurement Software

MARCH 11, 2022

As I’m sure you’re aware, there are a dizzying number of procurement software companies out there who claim to offer spend analytics in some form. On the one hand, suites which cover spend analysis alongside other procure-to-pay or source-to-contract functionality are packaged as part of an all-in-one offering. non-compliant).

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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. Contract and compliance management.

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Jaggaer

JUNE 11, 2020

With the current global economic circumstances, it should come as no surprise that businesses across all industries are looking for real time solutions to aid their procurement process by identifying cost reduction and spend management opportunities as a priority. Group, or link, suppliers for better supplier management.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Source-to-Pay is a more strategic approach to procurement’s core business process because it focuses on behavior–compliance and policy enforcement–promoting more efficient processes and ultimately better spend management. As a procurement leader, you are all too aware of the repercussions of inefficient spending.

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