Procurement Software

MARCH 16, 2025

While full-scale digital transformation certainly takes time, organisations can see rapid improvements in efficiency, collaboration, and data accuracy right from the outset. By automating routine tasks, streamlining communication, and centralising information in one single source of truth, you create tangible quick wins.

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Planergy

MAY 8, 2025

How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. These portals improve real-time visibility into purchase orders, payment timelines, and dispute resolution, directly enhancing vendor satisfaction. [5]

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

For sourcing teams, that means pivoting their mindset around selecting suppliers from a tactical, lowest-cost-above-all approach to a strategic one. Where tactical sourcing is a short-term strategy, strategic sourcing is for long-term business goals.

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Pipefy

APRIL 22, 2025

If youre in procurement or supply chain, chances are youve wondered: How can I rethink this process, make smarter decisions, and still save time? Automation within the source-to-pay (S2P) cycle from sourcing to payment is redefining how businesses handle suppliers, contracts, quotes, and payments. Lets take a look.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

However, simply cutting costs isnt a sustainable strategy CPOs must move beyond tactical price reductions and embrace strategic cost management. Solutions: Strategic Sourcing: Move beyond transactional purchasing and embrace strategic sourcing.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Collaboration across Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3, and beyond requires visibility and communication regarding capacity, cost, risk, order quantities, inventory levels, quality , timelines, logistics, and more. Collaboration brings visibility and agility for gaining market share.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Additionally, a purpose-built solution will enable you to measure and monitor buyer adherence to compliance purchasing, ensuring your team is taking advantage of preferred items and reaping the rewards of the contracts you have in place. Demand planning capabilities. Point-of-use data capture. The post ERP vs.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 24, 2025

Suppliers whose prices fluctuate significantly over time may not be suitable for long-term partnerships, whereas those who consistently provide products at estimated costs can be considered for future contracts. It helps determine the accuracy of supplier pricing. Then the Cost Breakdown Analysis Template is the perfect tool for you!

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

MARCH 2, 2025

By harnessing the power of data analytics and strategic insights, organizations can proactively mitigate the impact of tariffs on their supply chains while enhancing‍ operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Together, we can steer through the tariff turmoil and emerge stronger on the‍ other side.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Sourcing is getting smarter. To start, many organizations have already pivoted from a tactical to a strategic sourcing mindset—which can make all the difference when it comes to gaining and retaining a competitive advantage. But now, the benefits of strategic sourcing are becoming even more attainable thanks to innovation.

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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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Una

AUGUST 17, 2022

The figure’s head represents the top 1% of strategic suppliers to your organization. This is where strategic sourcing professionals spend most of their time, communicating directly with their top suppliers through an SRM program , and using cutting-edge procurement software to analyze spend and track risk.

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Procurement Insights

JANUARY 3, 2025

Here’s a breakdown of the shifts over this period: 2011: Procurement as a Tactical Function Primary Focus on Cost Savings : In 2011, CFOs largely viewed procurement as a cost-control function , tasked with negotiating contracts, reducing spend, and maintaining compliance with budgets.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In times of pressure and crisis , highly responsive and trustworthy suppliers make agility possible. Following widely-known standards keeps your vendor options open so you’re not locked into sourcing from a small pool of specialty suppliers that can negatively impact time to market.

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Procurement Templates

JUNE 18, 2023

ChatGPT Inflation refers to the general increase in prices of goods and services in an economy over time, resulting in a decrease in the purchasing power of money. These indices track the average price changes of a basket of goods and services over time. What is inflation?

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Empowering CPO

JUNE 22, 2023

Introduction Welcome to our complete guide on the role of spend analysis in strategic sourcing. In the ever-evolving world of business, strategic sourcing has become a linchpin in corporate success. But how do we fuel the engine of strategic sourcing? Spend analysis is the catalyst for strategic sourcing.

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 2, 2025

Risk Mitigation: Real-time supplier risk scoring (e.g., Zycus Overview: A pioneer in cognitive procurement with a GenAI-powered Source-to-Pay suite (Merlin AI), serving large enterprises. Tech Modernization: Automates 70-80% of P2P tasks, cutting $15K-$400K in legacy waste and enhancing visibility across Chevrons operations.

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 8, 2024

It involves identifying needs, sourcing potential vendors, obtaining quotes and proposals, negotiating contracts, selecting suppliers, managing relationships, and meeting obligations. Scope : Procurement spans the entire process from identifying requirements to contract closure. Purchasing is more transactional and tactical.

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Una

AUGUST 30, 2022

A recent paper from Deloitte has helpfully categorized digital procurement into three areas: automated P2P (Procure-to-Pay), proactive SRM (Supplier Relationship Management), and predictive S2C (Source to Contract). How to Improve Strategic Supplier Relationship Management. Digital procurement game-changers.

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TYA Suite

APRIL 13, 2025

These issues can waste time, increase expenses, and cause frustration for your team. Over time, these small problems add up, making it difficult to grow smoothly. It saves time, reduces mistakes, and gives you a clear view of all purchases, helping you make better decisions. Thats why switching to an can help.

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Planergy

DECEMBER 25, 2023

How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. Thanks to AI and other tools, you can now make better decisions with real-time data. Let’s delve into the details.

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Procurement Leaders

JUNE 1, 2022

Five years ago, global logistics company UPS’s procurement function was far from playing a strategic role. The teams were also tasked with expanding UPS’s days payable outstanding (a ratio indicating time taken to pay bills) to improve the company’s working capital position. Image: William Barton / Shutterstock.

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Jaggaer

JULY 7, 2020

“What’s really beneficial is that we get instant insight into actual versus planned across all of our contracts, is our spend with a particular carrier a lot more or a lot less?” – Srestha Dutta, Global Process & Technology Senior Manager. Contracts are very dynamic in this category because there are so many moving parts. “A

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Procurement Express

DECEMBER 31, 2024

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. Understanding these categories is the first step toward better visibility, smarter procurement processes, and tighter budget control. What’s Behind This Disconnect?

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Procurement Software

MAY 16, 2023

Above $1 billion businesses are typically a target of established, enterprise source-to-pay and source-to-contract suites. The software automates workflows and approvals, manages supplier catalogues, and provides real-time analytics for better decision-making.

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Una

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

This guide to IT procurement is designed to help you navigate the often complex process of searching for and comparing different technology providers, negotiating contracts and pricing, and implementing the right IT tools to drive productivity and efficiency without sacrificing your organization’s bottom line. IT Procurement Best Practices.

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Planergy

MARCH 24, 2025

How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. It automates invoice approvals, reconciliations, and payment processes to reduce administrative overhead, improve accuracy, and provide real-time financial insights.

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Procurement Software

MARCH 11, 2022

through strategic sourcing and targeted cost savings is a lot easier to accomplish than a sales force increasing their revenue by 10%. 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. Saving just 2.5%

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Procurement Software

MARCH 11, 2022

through strategic sourcing and targeted cost savings is a lot easier to accomplish than a sales force increasing their revenue by 10%. 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. Saving just 2.5%

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 10, 2024

This supports strategic sourcing efforts. Monitoring supplier relationships : AI can track supplier performance metrics, analyze contract terms for risks, and identify opportunities to improve supplier relationships. This maximizes value from sourcing partnerships.

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Una

JULY 25, 2023

Can’t we just sign the contract and then deal with any issues as they emerge? The first three KPIs we suggest every procurement team should monitor are: Defect rates Lead time Contract compliance Can you guess what the other four KPIs will be? Do you really need to complete every step for every purchase?

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Planergy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. Using financial tools can help save time and resources while improving accuracy in the budgeting process.

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Bonfire

APRIL 3, 2023

For many of them, their organizations have invested a lot of time and money in ERP systems that do many things well and are there to stay. There’s often little visibility into supplier performance and risk, limited supplier collaboration and communication, and little or no ability to manage supplier contracts and agreements.

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World of Procurement blog

APRIL 23, 2024

This technology significantly reduces manual work, minimizes errors, and speeds up transaction times. Spend analysis enables informed decision-making and strategic sourcing. They also facilitate quicker contract retrieval and revision.

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World of Procurement blog

APRIL 23, 2024

This technology significantly reduces manual work, minimizes errors, and speeds up transaction times. Spend analysis enables informed decision-making and strategic sourcing. They also facilitate quicker contract retrieval and revision.

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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. It promises to assist with improving buyer and supplier collaboration.

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Pipefy

JUNE 14, 2023

Visibility into procurement categories and effective management of categories fosters benefits like greater risk management and less costly supplier redundancies. Spend analysis is necessary for strategic sourcing. Spend analytics creates the visibility procurement teams need to complete a spend analysis.

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