Procurement Express

DECEMBER 24, 2024

The way businesses handle purchasing is evolving. And at the heart of this transformation is the purchase order management system. Submitting purchase order documents the old-fashioned way isnt just inefficient. What is Purchase Order Management? How Does Purchase Order Management Work?

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

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. Pain-Point: Purchasing compliance and collaboration. Solution: Automate end-to-end processes.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Strategic Sourcing Success: Best Practices and Key Strategies Of course, there are many definition s of source-to-pay but put simply, strategic sourcing is a data-driven approach to securing the best value for your organization from its strategic suppliers. How Has Strategic Sourcing Evolved?

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

What Is Strategic Sourcing? A Complete Guide Strategic sourcing is a data-driven approach to securing the best value for your organization from its strategic suppliers. It is called strategic because it replaces traditional ad hoc approaches to sourcing, which were almost entirely focused on cost savings, item by item.

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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.

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Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

This meant that implementing one of the full end-to-end spend management suites was not feasible from a cost and change management perspective. The most significant impact of implementing a spend analytics solution was providing the visibility and details behind the dollars spent on various Indirect spend categories.

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Spend Matters

JUNE 3, 2025

Evaluating mitigation options , including: Advanced purchasing or inventory building to front-run tariffs. Supplier diversification across geographies to reduce dependency on high-risk sources. This makes visibility the cornerstone of any viable tariff management strategy. Contract rebalancing to shift tariff liability.

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Procurement Tactics

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The SRM aims to ensure buying from reliable suppliers, bring end-to-end visibility of supplier collaboration workflow, and improve the resilience of the supply chain. . Many companies benefit from the software as it offers improved visibility into the supply chain and enables cost traceability for enhanced budget management. .

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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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Spend Matters

MAY 13, 2025

Inadequate cash flow visibility Finance teams often lack real-time insight into procurement expenditures, supplier contracts and upcoming financial obligations, making it difficult to forecast cash flow accurately. Limited visibility into procurements impact on cash flow.

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

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. Pain-Point: Purchasing compliance and collaboration. Solution: Automate end-to-end processes.

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TYA Suite

APRIL 13, 2025

When your business is small, using spreadsheets or sticky notes to track purchases might seem easy. You might face delays in approvals, end up placing duplicate orders, or be surprised by unexpected costs. It saves time, reduces mistakes, and gives you a clear view of all purchases, helping you make better decisions.

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Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

For example, many reports show that the adoption of e-sourcing by best-in-class companies has stagnated at 60% – 70% since 2007. Sourcing alone involves the many and often manual processes for RFxs, like RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, etc. However, adoption (by teams, by stakeholders, by suppliers) is not a reality for most organizations.

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 1, 2025

Unlike end-to-end Source-to-Pay (S2P) platforms (e.g., sourcing, supplier management, invoicing). Unlike end-to-end Source-to-Pay (S2P) platforms (e.g., sourcing, supplier management, invoicing). Below, Ill explain how this works and its impact. ESG tracking, dynamic discounting).

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Procurement Insights

MARCH 25, 2025

ANSWER #1 AdaptOne could provide significant value to Byrne Dairy , a food and beverage company, by optimizing and digitizing its procurement operations particularly in supplier management , compliance tracking , and procurement workflow visibility. Here’s how: 1.

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Procurement Tactics

JUNE 28, 2023

Purchase Orders Purchase orders are where the monitoring of the creation and approval of purchase orders comes in. Delivery and Logistics The status of goods and services purchased, such as their delivery timelines, transportation times, or receipt is monitored. The key elements are typically: 1.

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Strategic Sourceror

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

For these reasons, many high-end supply chain organizations are investing their money into visibility solutions to get a better handle on their supply chains. Why is visibility so important? Reduced costs Ultimately, visibility boils down into long-term operational efficiency. Brought to you by the StrategicSourceror.

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Procurement Tactics

DECEMBER 7, 2022

To simplify, it refers to monetary transactions between trading partners for purchasing, manufacturing, and selling goods and services. . The buyer can also source capital from banks or other financial providers at a lower cost or interest. . When this happens, it results in more visibility throughout the physical supply chain.

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ivalua

MAY 15, 2022

Currently, they’re seeing exceptional success in the purchase requisition, purchase order, and invoicing. To address their gaps, Amrest is building an end-to-end procurement process that covers all of their businesses and each unique challenge these operations face. They’re also ramping up usage in contract management.

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ivalua

MAY 15, 2022

Currently, they’re seeing exceptional success in the purchase requisition, purchase order, and invoicing. To address their gaps, Amrest is building an end-to-end procurement process that covers all of their businesses and each unique challenge these operations face. They’re also ramping up usage in contract management.

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Procurement Insights

JANUARY 19, 2025

Reference : SAP R/3 Oracle Financials : Overview : Oracle’s suite of financial applications included procurement capabilities, enabling organizations to manage purchasing activities within a broader financial management context. Significance : JDA’s tools were instrumental in enhancing procurement planning and execution.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 29, 2019

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. Government agencies have to facilitate transparency and openness while never losing sight of why that visibility is needed.

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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.

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Procurement Insights

MARCH 27, 2025

AdaptOne could provide significant value to Byrne Dairy , a food and beverage company, by optimizing and digitizing its procurement operations particularly in supplier management , compliance tracking , and procurement workflow visibility. Here’s how: 1. We aim to improve supplier onboarding, ensure regulatory compliance (e.g.,

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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. SaaS management and buying tools such, as Spendflo, address the lack of buyer visibility.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 24, 2025

Demand latency & the bullwhip effect Over the past six years, we have witnessed a sharp increase in demand latency , defined as the time lag between customer purchase behavior (at the point of sale) and the corresponding signal received by those responsible for replenishment or production. Our thinking is still siloed.

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Una

AUGUST 30, 2022

Strategic sourcing experts are using machine learning to categorize and manage spend, AI to better predict demand, and act upon alerts such as contract expiry/renewals. How to Optimize Your Spend with a Strategic Sourcing Process. Do you have questions about group purchasing? Digital procurement game-changers. Get in Touch.

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TYA Suite

MAY 13, 2025

Production slows down, orders get delayed, and customer satisfaction dropsall because someone missed a routine purchase. Operational procurement refers to the process of purchasing the everyday goods and services a business needs to function. Imagine a company that suddenly runs out of packaging materials.

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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.

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ivalua

JANUARY 27, 2021

3 Top Digital Transformation Blockers: Although 86% of AP professionals served by Hackett Group say digital transformation of the Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) process is of “critical” or “major” importance, few have been successful in making it happen. They follow an end-to-end channel strategy with nearly all spend covered by contract or POs.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Many large organizations implement a Procure to Pay platform with the aim to deliver efficiency, visibility, simplicity, and compliance. Procurement as end-to-end process owner . while optimizing the needs for efficiency, simplicity, visibility, and compliance. But there are two issues in practice.

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 2, 2025

I picked Chevron to prepare the following assessment based on the company’s interest in my recent LinkedIn post and the corresponding poll in the Purchasing & Global Supply Chain Professionals (PGSCP) group. Limited in ESG or strategic sourcing but supports operational agility.

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Supply Chain Opz

MARCH 6, 2015

However, complex supplier relationships, unreliable sources of material supply, and ever-increasing customer expectations greatly add to the expectations to select the best suppliers and conduct their operations more efficiently. One of these trends, in addition to inventory keeping, is dual/multi-sourcing.

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Procurement Insights

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The Dawn of Integrated Source-to-Pay Suites The release of Gartner’s first integrated Source-to-Pay (S2P) Magic Quadrant marks a pivotal moment in procurement technology. Fragmented workflows, scattered supplier information, and lack of full source-to-payment traceability are no longer acceptable.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

AUGUST 12, 2024

Altana is the world’s first Value Chain Management System – a unified, comprehensive approach that goes far beyond supply chain risk management, with unprecedented visibility, contextualized netrt across business areas, and a collaborative network with end-to-end workflows to get jobs done. 52.14] The future for Altana. “An

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Jaggaer

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The Essential Guide to Source to Pay, Source to Contract, and Procure to Pay Whether youre new to the world of procurement and supply chain management, or a seasoned veteran; whether you work in a major manufacturing industry, a university, or a medium-sized clinical research organization, you may find procurement jargon rather confusing.

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Pipefy

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

A company’s procurement department is driven by various processes and teams, including purchasing and accounts payable. One of the tactical processes leveraged to realize strategic goals is the source-to-pay process. Build better workflows with the Definitive Guide to Workflow Management Download now What is the source-to-pay process?

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