ivalua

JULY 15, 2025

A critical but often overlooked step in managing spend, enforcing policy, and gaining visibility across the procurement process, creating a purchase requisition is the first step in the process. Key Takeaways Purchase requisitions are essential for helping organizations align spend with budgets, policies, and strategic goals.

Purchasing

Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Complete Source to Pay cycle and Strategic Sourcing Guide An optimized Source-to-Pay (S2P) process helps businesses enhance procurement efficiency, reduce costs, and improve supplier collaboration. What is Source-to-Pay? A well-executed S2P strategy reduces costs, increases visibility, and ensures compliance.

Strategic sourcing

ivalua

MAY 10, 2025

This guide breaks down the key procurement technologies in use today and the trends reshaping the future, such as AI-driven sourcing, predictive risk management, and deeper integration across the supply chain. Your procurement technology platform should help unify data and processes across tiers to avoid disruptions.

Supply Chain Efficiency

ivalua

JUNE 12, 2025

You know there are opportunities hidden in the numbers; the challenge is surfacing them in time to act. This blog offers a clear, practical overview of what spend analysis is, how it supports strategic sourcing, and why it matters for both direct and indirect procurement.

supply chain budgeting

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?

Strategic sourcing

ivalua

MAY 21, 2025

Enterprise procurement teams face growing pressure to deliver strategic value – managing supplier risk, ensuring compliance, and supporting sustainability – all without sacrificing speed or control. Key Takeaways Legacy procurement processes limit scale, speed, and visibility, making it harder to manage risk, compliance, and costs.

Real-time Visibility

Spend Matters

MAY 1, 2025

Heres where e-procurement processes often break down: Fragmented catalog and supplier management: Inconsistent supplier onboarding and unstructured catalogs result in pricing discrepancies and procurement delays. Approval workflow bottlenecks: Manual approvals cause delays, increasing cycle times and reducing procurement efficiency.

Real-time Visibility

ivalua

JUNE 23, 2025

Key Takeaways S2C platforms optimize procurement efficiency, reduce costs and risk, streamline supplier relationships, and improve contract compliance with automation and real-time data visibility. Key goals accomplished with the right S2C solution include: Generating significant cost savings through better spend management.

Contract

ivalua

JULY 3, 2025

Direct and indirect procurement are two fundamental approaches in supply chain management, each serving distinct functions within an organization. Both focus on improving efficiency and reducing costs but differ in their strategic approach and impact on the core business operations. What Is Direct Procurement and How Does It Work?

supply chain budgeting

Spend Matters

OCTOBER 31, 2024

We believe these companies deserve greater visibility, especially in a market which is increasingly consolidating and diluting buyer choices. To potential buyers — True ValueHub can save category managers and buyers significant time and money by identifying new opportunities based on a deep analysis of costs and drivers.

Real-time Visibility

ivalua

JUNE 5, 2025

Procurement and purchasing are often used interchangeably, but they serve distinct roles within any successful organization.While both involve acquiring goods and services, their workflows, objectives, and impact on enterprise risk management differ significantly. What is Procurement? What Does Procurement and Purchasing Mean for Enterprises?

Purchasing

Spend Matters

APRIL 10, 2025

The days of relying solely on traditional processes to manage suppliers, contracts and spend are quickly fading. AI is the game-changer that allows procurement professionals to escape the cycle of transactional work and focus on what really moves the needle: strategic sourcing, supplier collaboration, and advanced analytics.

Procurement

Spend Matters

MAY 27, 2025

Technology is a powerful enabler of finance-procurement collaboration, bridging gaps in spend visibility, cost control and data integration. Without the right tools, procurements contributions to financial strategy can remain disconnected from budgeting, forecasting and risk management.

Real-time Visibility

ivalua

JUNE 24, 2025

If your procurement team is juggling multiple ERP systems, you’re likely spending more time chasing data than driving strategy. Disconnected supplier records, inconsistent processes, and limited visibility can impair efficiency and open the door to shadow spend.

Procurement

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 19, 2025

Can you reduce lead times without compromising quality? Innovation is exciting, but it often comes with long lead times. Effective lead time management is essential to avoid operational disruptions. It also requires adjusting supplier relationships to accommodate increased demand and managing a more complex inventory.

Supply Chain Efficiency

Let's Talk Supply Chain

MARCH 2, 2025

In this fast-paced economic landscape, the importance of strategic supplier relationship management cannot be overstated. Join ‍us as we delve into the world of Supplier Relationship Management, unlocking the secrets to success in the face ‍of tariff uncertainty.

Supplier relationship management

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.

Procurement

Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The most recent Hackett Group Report highlights key priorities reshaping procurement in 2025, including technology adoption, the rise of Generative AI, and managing emerging risks. However, simply cutting costs isnt a sustainable strategy CPOs must move beyond tactical price reductions and embrace strategic cost management.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

Spend Matters

MAY 13, 2025

Its increasingly evident: GenAI is no longer a future concept; its already reshaping operations in real time. Traditional procurement teams continue to grapple with familiar, persistent challenges, such as manual data entry, siloed systems, outdated tools and limited visibility into spend categories or supplier performance.

Real-time Visibility

SCMDOJO

MARCH 24, 2025

By using PPV, managers can identify inefficiencies in cost-saving strategies by detecting cost overruns and underruns, allowing them to take corrective actions. During the planning phase, managers do not have an exact estimate of the costs they will incur for purchasing. It helps determine the accuracy of supplier pricing.

Price

Procurement Insights

JANUARY 3, 2025

Key metrics were tied to cost reduction and spend under management. Minimal Strategic Involvement : Procurement was often siloed, with limited involvement in broader corporate strategies. Collaboration with finance was transactional rather than strategic. Analytics and insights from procurement data were minimal.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

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.

Collaboration

TYA Suite

JUNE 12, 2025

From managing global supplier networks to ensuring regulatory compliance and cost efficiency, the modern procurement landscape is more complex than ever. It offers a smarter, more integrated approach to managing the entire procurement lifecycle, bringing structure, visibility, and agility to every stage of the process.

Real-time Visibility

Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Supplier Collaboration vs. Supplier Relationship Management What good is having the best suppliers if you can’t communicate well enough to leverage their products and skills? The primary goals of SRM are to foster hand-in-glove supplier relationships, manage risk, and optimize the value chain.

Collaboration

Planergy

MAY 8, 2025

Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. 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. What's PLANERGY? How to report and analyze indirect spend to identify savings opportunities.

Strategy

Procurement Express

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Procurement managers are pros when it comes to negotiating deals down to the penny, working closely with suppliers to secure terms that place them at a strategic advantage. 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.

Spend management

Procurement Software

JUNE 29, 2025

By the time these issues reach your desk in Procurement, they’ve typically bounced around your organisation with nobody taking ownership. Because of this, you’ll increase compliance over time through not making them follow complex processes. Picture this: You’re deep in a value-added task when your phone rings.

Real-time Visibility

Procurement Insights

JULY 2, 2025

(A PI Q&A) , A reader asked the following question: Aside from the basics of spend analysis and eliminating redundancy, I’m curious to hear of others’ experiences in dealing with mergers/acquisitions and how the cultural elements were addressed in terms of promoting the use of preferred vendors and the adoption of expense management policy.

Supply Chain Optimization

TYA Suite

MAY 13, 2025

While it may not seem as strategic or high-profile as long-term sourcing deals, operational procurement is essential. It ensures that every team has the right resources at the right time, without delays or extra costs. Operational procurement management plays a key role in ensuring that companies can adapt quickly.

Procurement

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. What is Source-to-Pay (S2P)?

Sourcing

Finale Inventory

JULY 18, 2025

Discover how inventory planning software and improved lead time management can transform these challenges into competitive advantages. Meanwhile, tier-2 supplier failures create cascading disruptions that are often detected too late, highlighting the need for multi-tier visibility.

supply chain software solutions

Procurement Insights

JULY 1, 2025

Fit Score Link : This translates into high Fit Score alignment in areas like cross-functional collaboration, tech interoperability, and strategic sourcing visibility. Fit Score Link : Agent-based logic contributes to evaluating how flexible and decentralized a platform is—critical for change management and adoption scoring.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

Procurement Insights

APRIL 2, 2025

AdaptOne Overview: A supplier management platform focused on diversity, risk, and compliance, often integrated with S2P suites like Coupa or SAP Ariba. Risk Mitigation: Real-time supplier risk scoring (e.g., Chevron Fit: Strong for cost management and tech adoption, with $5M-$15M savings potential.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

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.

Purchasing

Procurement Insights

APRIL 3, 2025

Global Reach, Real Impact Participants and speakers come from over 50 countries. Thought Leadership Consistently pushes the conversation forward from autonomous sourcing to orchestration platforms. Thought Leadership Consistently pushes the conversation forward from autonomous sourcing to orchestration platforms.

Real-time Visibility

Procurement Insights

JANUARY 19, 2025

However, a few pioneering solutions began to emerge, laying the groundwork for future advancements: American Management Systems (AMS) Procurement Desktop-Defense (PD) : Overview : AMS developed PD as part of the U.S. Significance : GEAC’s systems were among the early adopters of integrating procurement with financial management.

supply chain software solutions

Procurement Insights

APRIL 1, 2025

Unlike end-to-end Source-to-Pay (S2P) platforms (e.g., sourcing, supplier management, invoicing). AdaptOne for supplier onboarding, GEP for strategic sourcing) rather than purchasing a comprehensive S2P suite with unused features (e.g., Below, Ill explain how this works and its impact.

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