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Direct vs Indirect Procurement: Key Differences, Challenges, and Opportunities

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Key Takeaways Unified sourcing platforms help connect planning, sourcing, and spend visibility for both procurement types, driving efficiency and competitive advantage. It continues through production and the product’s end-of-life phase. What Is Direct Procurement and How Does It Work?

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ContractSafe: Vendor Analysis — Contract lifecycle management solution overview, roadmap, user considerations, analyst summary

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The provider offers end-to-end CLM capabilities and is a popular option among SME organizations, with an increasing stake in midsize to large enterprise companies. To potential buyers ContractSafe prioritizes quick and affordable implementation while offering transparent pricing models based on the volume of contracts being managed.

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Automated Invoice Processing: Features and Implementation

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Manual processes are the root cause of most AP inefficiencies – and they often stem from poor data quality, disconnected systems, and lack of visibility. Learn how Ivalua’s Invoice Software enables you to pay suppliers at the right time, every time, and give all stakeholders visibility into your spend cycle. Find Out More.

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Procurement vs Purchasing: Key Differences, Workflows, and Enterprise Risks

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Technology unifies procurement and purchasing, improving visibility, compliance, and workflow automation. Procurement is the end-to-end process of identifying business needs, sourcing goods and services, negotiating contracts, and managing supplier relationships over time. What is Procurement? What is Purchasing?

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Agents or No, AI or No — The AP function still has a job to do

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Today, we hear not just about automation and AI but about agentic systems, reasoning chains, multi-agent workflows and even LLM-powered copilots that can handle your accounts payable (AP) process from end to end. It has no visibility into approval delays or discount capture. Are we doing it with accuracy, control and visibility?

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The Benefits of Procure-to-Pay

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At Ivalua, we’ve seen how a Procure-to-Pay business process ensures sustained benefits through good buying practices, improves visibility and swifter issue resolution, and enables proactive management of suppliers. Buying at negotiated prices and within budget. Solution: Automate end-to-end processes. Case in Point.

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The 2025 State of Source-to-Pay Digitization: Key Insights for CPOs

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What Matters Most: CPO’s Top 3 Criteria for Choosing S2P Tech With cost-saving being a major priority for companies, and procurement teams in particular, pricing models, whether fixed license, subscription, or pay-per-transaction, as well as total cost are one of the first criteria on CPOs’ checklist. Keep pace with advancing technology.

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