TYA Suite

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Procurement management software simplifies the vendor selection process by offering tools to evaluate and compare vendor performance based on specific criteria such as price, quality, reliability, and compliance. It’s important to choose software that aligns with the company’s procurement goals and integrates well with existing systems.

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Procurement Insights

JUNE 14, 2025

Example: Simulate a port strike’s impact on global logistics, calculating cost/time implications for 10,000+ shipment routes. Adaptive Orchestration (Hansen’s Agent-Based Models) Function: Model how human agents (procurement teams, suppliers) would respond to disruptions, incorporating behavioral incentives and irrationalities.

Supply Chain Optimization 52

Supply Chain Optimization Supply Chain Efficiency Procurement Inventory 52

Arkestro

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Arkestro’s unique approach enables procurement teams to deliver competitive quote outcomes without adding cycle time. Businesses using Arkestro see an average savings of 16% in the first 60 days, unlocking value across every transaction, from big, complex quotes for logistics portfolios to simple spot buys for valves.

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ivalua

MAY 10, 2025

AI, automation, and generative tools are redefining efficiency, allowing procurement teams to move from reactive to proactive decision-making. Scalability, integration, and flexibility are critical when choosing a platform, ensuring long-term value and the ability to adapt as procurement needs evolve.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

The Role of Agentic AI in Supply Chains Supply chains are dynamic and complex, requiring continuous decision-making across multiple functions, from procurement and inventory management to logistics and demand forecasting. Assists with supplier performance assessment, risk management, and logistics optimization.

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Jaggaer

DECEMBER 5, 2024

What This Means for Procurement: Procurement teams need tools that provide real-time tracking and end-to-end transparency across the supply chain. While companies have robust visibility over their inventory and warehousing (99%), this drops to a stark 20% when it comes to their deeper supplier networks.

Supply Chain Efficiency 52

Supply Chain Efficiency Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Optimization Supply chain 52

ivalua

JUNE 12, 2025

Despite investments in tools and data, most procurement teams struggle to scale their efforts beyond one-off reports or limited categories. This fragmentation leads to inconsistencies that undermine trust and force procurement teams to chase data instead of analyzing it. The culprit?

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ivalua

JULY 1, 2025

Strengthen Data Visibility Across Sourcing and Contracting Procurement teams need consistent access to pricing and performance history, contract terms, and supplier risk profiles, not just at the negotiation stage but throughout the procurement lifecycle. Examples include IT, logistics, and critical raw materials.

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Procurement Insights

JULY 27, 2025

Above you will find the Hansen Fit Score Semantic Stakeholder Overlay , visually mapping how aligned different stakeholder groups are with key procurement semantic categories such as Supplier Onboarding , Scorecarding , Compliance , and Intake/Orchestration. Key Insights: Procurement Teams and ProcureTech vendors (e.g.,

e2e 52

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ivalua

JULY 1, 2025

Strengthen Data Visibility Across Sourcing and Contracting Procurement teams need consistent access to pricing and performance history, contract terms, and supplier risk profiles, not just at the negotiation stage but throughout the procurement lifecycle. Examples include IT, logistics, and critical raw materials.

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TYA Suite

JUNE 12, 2025

The procurement team can evaluate suppliers based on past performance, pricing, delivery timelines, and compliance status. The orchestration process may also support automated supplier shortlisting and RFQ ( A critical part of the Procurement Orchestration Process is routing through a pre-defined approval hierarchy.

Real-time Visibility 40

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ivalua

MAY 29, 2025

SCM is focused on efficiency, throughput, and resilience across a much wider operational footprint and requires coordination between manufacturing, logistics and supply chain, and demand planning teams to ensure timely fulfillment and quality assurance.

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ivalua

JUNE 24, 2025

If your procurement team is juggling multiple ERP systems, you’re likely spending more time chasing data than driving strategy. All of which diminishes procurement’s impact across your organization. Now, let’s examine the differences between traditional ERP systems unfit for modern procurement organizations.

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Arkestro

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The Baltimore bridge collapse , geopolitical instability , and even recent IT outages have impacted a whole range of industries, from airlines to banking to logistics. For procurement teams, this adds even more complexity to already complex supply chains. Many people talked about how they fell into procurement.

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TYA Suite

JUNE 22, 2025

It transforms raw procurement data into meaningful insights that support both short-term improvements and long-term strategic goals. Procurement analytics is the process of gathering, examining, and interpreting information about a business's purchasing operations. KPIs monitor procurement performance and analytics' effects.

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Procurement Real-time Visibility Supply Chain Efficiency supply chain software solutions 40

HICX

JUNE 9, 2025

Through machine learning , AI uncovers patterns that assist in cost control, logistics planning, and supplier performance assessment. In supply chain operations, AI delivers end-to-end visibility and agility by integrating data from logistics, inventory, production, and external sources into predictive models and real-time dashboards.

Suppliers 40

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 24, 2025

Vendor Performance Reviews Made Visual Procurement teams routinely evaluate vendors based on metrics like delivery timeliness, cost efficiency, quality ratings, and compliance. By using workflow diagrams, swimlane charts, and SOP templates , teams can demystify logistics workflows and create reusable communication tools that scale.

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 14, 2025

Adaptive and Efficient Procurement Practices Hansen’s model enables organizations to simulate various procurement scenarios with unprecedented detail, fostering optimization in decision-making and resource allocation. Influence on the Procurement Industry 1. customs delays).

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Procurement Software

JULY 6, 2025

.” What procurement sees as value creation, finance might dismiss as merely doing your job. When procurement can demonstrate how higher costs in one area drive greater revenue or margin improvements elsewhere, we transition from cost-cutters to value creators. Sometimes the right decision is to spend more money, not less.

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TYA Suite

JUNE 2, 2025

is when a single department, usually the procurement team, manages all purchasing activities for the entire organization. It also gives procurement teams a structured request to work with, enabling them to prioritize and plan sourcing activities effectively.

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Procurement Insights

MAY 23, 2025

Arkestros Predictive Procurement Platform leverages early AI principles akin to Jon Hansens RAM model in several key ways, blending decentralized decision-making, agent-like simulations, and seamless integration with legacy systems to drive efficiency. suppliers, procurement teams) to simulate interactions and optimize workflows.

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Supply Chain Dive

JUNE 23, 2025

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 8, 2025

Example During a port strike, agents reroute shipments via alternative suppliers/logistics partners. Handling Multi-Stakeholder Complexity Factor Agent-Based Model (Metaprise) Equation-Based Intake & Orchestration Interoperability Agents represent suppliers, buyers, and logistics providers, collaborating across ecosystems.

Supply Chain Optimization 81

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Skill Dynamics

APRIL 24, 2025

The procurement team is responsible for ensuring that the inputs to a business (whether goods or services) are of the right quality, delivered on time, and aligned with strategic goals. It includes procurement but also spans logistics, production, inventory management, and distribution.

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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. Multi-tier supplier collaboration involves building transparency with and beyond your first tier suppliers.

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Procurement Insights

MARCH 23, 2025

Quantitative Effect: McKinsey (2023) notes 10-20% improvement in on-time delivery rates with digital procurement tools. For instance, logistics savings (10% of $75M, prior automotive response) reflect optimized supplier schedules, lifting rates from 85% to 90-95%. Predictive AI (e.g., ORO Labs) anticipates delays, improving planning.

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Real-time Visibility Quality Supply Chain Efficiency Collaboration 52

Procurement Insights

JUNE 16, 2025

Predictive Contract Compliance & Renegotiation: Agents will monitor contract terms against actual performance and market conditions, proactively alerting procurement teams to potential non-compliance or identifying opportunities for early renegotiation based on changing market dynamics or supplier performance trends.

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TYA Suite

MAY 13, 2025

How it works: Instead of maintaining a large in-house team for activities like logistics, IT support, or customer service, you outsource to specialists. A good can also lead to collaborative efforts to reduce costs, such as jointly finding ways to improve logistics, reduce packaging, or optimize product specifications.

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Procurement Insights

JULY 26, 2025

Here is an excerpt from a recent email I received from Staphany Lapierre regarding an upcoming webinar: Twelve years ago, we set out to help procurement teams gain access to supplier data they could trust. Data with integrity, that is structured in a way that could power systems and decision-making across the enterprise.

Collaboration 52

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 24, 2025

Procurement teams may use one platform, while logistics depends on another, and finance runs an entirely separate system. Companies that embed sustainability into their logistics and procurement platforms build stronger brands and avoid future penalties. This ensures that profit and planet remain aligned.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 16, 2025

Many procurement teams are being asked to deliver value beyond savings alone , strengthening supply chain resilience, reducing compliance risk, and advancing ESG and sustainability goals, at greater speed and without headcount increases. On the demand side, there is pressure to do more with less.

Procurement 52

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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.

Real-time Visibility 52

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TYA Suite

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Each participant in the procurement process—whether they are suppliers, buyers, or logistics providers—has access to this shared ledger. This automation reduces paperwork and accelerates the transaction process, allowing procurement teams to focus on strategic planning rather than administrative tasks.

Supply Chain Efficiency 40

Supply Chain Efficiency Procurement Real-time Visibility Contract 40

Procurement Insights

MAY 16, 2025

Stakeholder Mapping & Discovery Identify all agents in the system : Internal : Procurement teams, finance, IT, end-users (e.g., External : Suppliers, logistics partners (e.g., procurement teams analyzing dynamic flux trends). DNDs service department technicians). UPS), regulators (e.g., customs), SMEs.

Ethics 52

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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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Jaggaer

MAY 16, 2025

From Order Fulfillment to Strategic Value Creation Partner This realization is relatively new and comes with a fundamental shift in how the role of procurement is understood. Looking back just 30 years, procurement was mainly seen as an ordering department. But the procurement transformation journey is far from over.

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 9, 2025

Example : During a port strike, agents reroute shipments via alternative logistics partners without manual intervention, minimizing downtime. Agent-Based Solution : Agents represent suppliers, buyers, and logistics providers, sharing data and negotiating terms autonomously. tariffs, ESG compliance) without manual oversight.

Supply Chain Efficiency 52

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