ivalua

MAY 16, 2025

Implementing procurement software best practices begins with understanding the full scope of the Source-to-Pay (S2P) process – the end-to-end workflow that includes supplier management, sourcing, contract lifecycle management (CLM), purchasing, invoicing, payments and spend analytics. Find Out More What Is Procurement Software?

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

What is Source to Pay (S2P)? Yet in the case of source to pay, it is wholly justified. That said, many organizations, including large enterprises, may not think in terms of source to pay as an end-to-end process, if they think about it at all. Yet there are good reasons to do so.

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ivalua

MAY 30, 2025

AI is reshaping the way organizations source, manage suppliers, and drive value today. AI agents offer a smarter, faster way to manage sourcing, risk, and spend across the entire procurement lifecycle. For example, agentic AI can analyze supplier data, evaluate contracts, manage purchase orders, or recommend sourcing strategies.

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ivalua

MAY 30, 2025

AI is reshaping the way organizations source, manage suppliers, and drive value today. AI agents offer a smarter, faster way to manage sourcing, risk, and spend across the entire procurement lifecycle. For example, agentic AI can analyze supplier data, evaluate contracts, manage purchase orders, or recommend sourcing strategies.

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TYA Suite

JUNE 2, 2025

From raw materials for manufacturing to office supplies or software subscriptions, these purchases keep the business moving. But purchasing is more than just placing orders, it's a structured process that ensures the right items are bought, from the right sources, at the right price, and at the right time.

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ivalua

JUNE 12, 2025

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. When done right, spend analysis enables cost savings, supplier optimization, risk reduction, and more strategic sourcing decisions.

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Future Purchasing

APRIL 1, 2025

From our research, it is clear that many organisations still see category management as simply another term for strategic sourcing. However, we believe that category management and strategic sourcing focus on different aspects and have distinct goals. Strategic sourcing is focused on price reduction. specification management).

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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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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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Spend Matters

MAY 1, 2025

To ensure automation delivers maximum value, procurement teams must first streamline their processes, enforce governance and standardize purchasing behaviors. Integrate procurement with budgeting and contract compliance: Ensure purchases are validated against financial plans and existing contract terms in real-time.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 8, 2025

This Spend Matters Vendor Analysis provides an overview of Zip and its solution for intake, orchestration and source to pay (S2P). As procurement becomes increasingly strategic and digital, intake and orchestration processes require intricate coordination across various departments, tools and data sources.

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Spend Matters

JUNE 24, 2025

Behind every chatbot interface or AI-guided shopping experience, procurement still must: Enable compliant purchasing. Generate accurate purchase orders (POs). Maintain clean, governed procurement catalogs Reliable catalogs are the cornerstone of strategic purchasing only when they are accurate, current and policy-aligned.

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ivalua

JULY 1, 2025

Segmentation enables differentiated supplier management strategies , such as focusing risk mitigation efforts on sole-source vendors or negotiating long-term value with strategic suppliers. Centralizing data enables better sourcing decisions and improves collaboration across procurement, legal, and business other units.

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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

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. What Is Procurement Technology? Here are some of the most important tools teams are already using.

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Procurement Templates

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Here’s a detailed guide to enhance procurement capabilities across various domains: Strategic Sourcing and Supplier Management Actionable Steps: Analyze Spend Data: Use spend analysis tools to identify areas where costs can be reduced or efficiencies improved. Resources: Online courses on strategic sourcing (e.g.,

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ivalua

JULY 1, 2025

Segmentation enables differentiated supplier management strategies , such as focusing risk mitigation efforts on sole-source vendors or negotiating long-term value with strategic suppliers. Centralizing data enables better sourcing decisions and improves collaboration across procurement, legal, and business other units.

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Spend Matters

JULY 1, 2025

Half (49.5%) of small business owners reported that the business is their primary income source, and 40.6% But now, artificial intelligence (AI) offers SMBs a way to streamline purchasing, make smarter decisions and compete more effectively — without massive investments. The result?

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Spend Matters

MAY 14, 2025

The move addresses a long-standing gap in many procurement technology offerings: helping teams define and manage procurement strategies, rather than just executing sourcing events. Supply disruptions , inflation, geopolitical tensions and regulatory demands are forcing companies to revisit sourcing decisions more often.

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Spend Matters

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Customers want to quickly adjust sourcing strategies and build agility into their supply chains. How customers justify procuretech investment to stakeholders Cost savings and efficiency: Direct savings and operational efficiency metrics resonate strongly with financial stakeholders.

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Spend Matters

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Tariff management is a strategic subset of direct materials management and sourcing that involves navigating and optimizing the complex costs and regulatory implications of importing materials and goods across borders. Tariffs essentially taxes imposed on imports and exports directly impact product cost structures.

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ivalua

MAY 29, 2025

At a high level, procurement focuses on sourcing the goods and services an organization needs, while supply chain management oversees the broader flow of those goods, from raw materials to end customers. Supply Chain Management (SCM) involves orchestrating a product’s or service’s entire lifecycle, from sourcing and production to delivery.

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ivalua

MAY 21, 2025

Digital procurement streamlines workflows and unifies data, enabling faster sourcing, better collaboration, and improved accuracy. Digital procurement is the use of digital technologies to enhance, automate, and optimize procurement processes across the entire source-to-pay (S2P) lifecycle.

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Procurement Insights

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Network Intelligence: Learns from market trends, supplier performance, and risk factors to optimize sourcing and supplier management. Centralized Procurement Request System: Employees submit purchase requests through a unified intake tool , which then routes them to the correct procurement solution (e.g.,

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 31, 2024

What is True ValueHub True ValueHub’s solution is an AI and cloud-based software that helps manufacturing companies achieve cost savings on purchased parts and assemblies in mechanical, electro-mechanical and electronics categories. Also, its approach could potentially change how the traditional sourcing process is executed.

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Procurement Insights

JANUARY 3, 2025

20152020: Procurement Gains Strategic Recognition Emergence of Strategic Sourcing : CFOs began to recognize procurement’s role in driving long-term value through strategic sourcing, supplier relationships, and risk management. Analytics and insights from procurement data were minimal.

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Procurement Software

MARCH 16, 2025

By automating routine tasks, streamlining communication, and centralising information in one single source of truth, you create tangible quick wins. Dealing with all of these contracts, sourcing events and purchase requests simultaneously, without a digital solution, results in email overload.

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Spend Matters

JUNE 23, 2025

’ Several posts challenged the instinct to begin with a tech purchase. In Smarter, Faster, Still Human , guest contributor Iyyappan Chandramouleeswaran (VP – Delivery Lead, S2P Transformation at Standard Chartered) shared how GenAI is reshaping sourcing and supplier engagement — but with a human-centered design.

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Jaggaer

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In today’s dynamic market, procurement is far more than just a buying and purchasing center. Forward-thinking organizations have transformed the department into an untapped gold mine that creates value for the entire end-to-end manufacturing process—from design and sourcing to production and delivery.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The idea for True ValueHub was born out of the pain points our Founder, Gautam Pasari, experienced first-hand over the years working for various manufacturing companies while leading their strategic sourcing, category management and digital transformation functions. What is the road ahead for True ValueHub? “We

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Spend Matters

JUNE 17, 2025

Agents can scale knowledge, but they still need a source: you. From governed catalogs and guided intake to compliant purchase orders and structured supplier collaboration, the piece outlines nine essential capabilities that define functional maturity.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 19, 2025

Strategic sourcing, supplier collaboration, and bulk purchasing agreements can help optimize both cost efficiency and quality. Working with multiple suppliers across different regions reduces dependency on any single source, mitigating risks. Instead of focusing solely on unit prices, consider the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

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ivalua

MAY 2, 2025

This is why a unified procurement platform —one that centralizes and standardizes data across the Source-to-Pay (S2P) lifecycle—remains indispensable and is core to making the case for Agentic AI in procurement. This embedded compliance layer drastically reduces the risk of rogue spending or non-compliant sourcing activities.

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Spend Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2024

It ensures that organizations have the right materials sourced from the right suppliers at the right time and for the best cost, making tariff management a natural part of these processes. Direct materials management is essential for aligning demand, supply and product objectives throughout the product lifecycle.

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ivalua

JUNE 24, 2025

Key Takeaways Most ERPs aren’t designed for strategic procurement functions like sourcing, supplier collaboration, compliance tracking or collaborative transactions Multi-ERP environments create hidden inefficiencies, but unification helps solve them. Unified procurement drives real ROI and agility, along with improved compliance.

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Spend Matters

JULY 10, 2025

Agentic AI is transforming procurement — from intake and sourcing to risk management and P2P exception handling. This article explores real-world use cases across the source-to-pay lifecycle, showing how autonomous agents can execute tasks, orchestrate decisions and learn from feedback.

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Spend Matters

DECEMBER 17, 2024

For those who do not have robust strategic sourcing to start with, the process efficiency, particularly for order-to-invoice to get the right price, will resonate most (i.e.: On the procurement side, the interest is in the Purchase Request coding for accounting and spend categorization. 2- and 3-way matching).

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