Spend Matters

MAY 8, 2023

Categories: Conferences , Spend Management Tags: PRO The question of how to manage direct materials can yield polarized answers and requires deeper evaluation than simply evaluating a few narrow use cases. Quality collaboration to manage the direct-materials quality control processes from design to execution.

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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 any case, organizations need to pull indirect spending out of the shadows and into the open. What Happens When Indirect Spend Isnt Managed?

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Spend Matters

JUNE 2, 2025

Tracking performance over time is key to measuring the business value the collaboration is delivers. However, procurement plays a critical role in reflecting cost-saving initiatives, supplier contracts and spend management efforts in financial statements and budget planning.

Sustainability 69

Sustainability supply chain budgeting Supply Chain Efficiency Real-time Visibility 69

ivalua

JUNE 29, 2021

Enabling rapid, cost-effective and transparent supplier payments anywhere in the world. Redwood City, CA, June 30, 2021 – Ivalua, a global leader in Cloud Spend Management solutions, announces an extension of its source-to-pay platform with a new payments solution to digitize and streamline global supplier payments.

Supply Chain Efficiency 130

Supply Chain Efficiency Suppliers Sourcing Real-time Visibility 130

Planergy

MAY 8, 2025

Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. How to report and analyze indirect spend to identify savings opportunities.

Strategy 52

Strategy Real-time Visibility Procurement Agile and Lean Supply Chain 52

Una

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Amplify Your Business Spend Management Strategies with a GPO. Una leverages over $100 billion in buying power to negotiate best-price contracts with hundreds of the nation’s top suppliers. Una leverages over $100 billion in buying power to negotiate best-price contracts with hundreds of the nation’s top suppliers.

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Spend management Management Purchasing Real-time Visibility 97

Una

AUGUST 17, 2022

A comprehensive guide designed to tame tail spend in a way that leads to reduced risk and increased cost savings. Taming Tail Spend. This comprehensive guide will go over tail spend in procurement and provide resources for how to implement an effective tail spend management strategy. What is tail spend?

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Real-time Visibility Spend management Procurement team Purchasing 98

Jaggaer

MARCH 24, 2025

Impact on Procurement: Gen AI leverages vast datasets to generate actionable insights, helping procurement teams predict future trends, such as market shifts, supplier performance, and demand fluctuations. Impact on Procurement: Spend analytics give CPOs visibility into spending patterns, supplier performance, and inefficiencies.

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Procurement Supply Chain Optimization Real-time Visibility supply chain budgeting 52

Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Spend Matters has been speaking with procurement practitioners and solution providers to get a wide view of how procurement and digital transformation is happening in the real world. And in the real workplace, thats where those decisions come from rather than procurement itself. Her first piece of advice would be: Dont.

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Procurement Real-time Visibility Change management Data 77

ivalua

JUNE 10, 2021

Employees can search across internally hosted supplier catalogs, Amazon Business and other supplier sites to see and compare the results side by side on a single screen. With real-time pricing and inventory information to ensure that the items selected are available. All without leaving Ivalua.

Collaboration 130

Collaboration Real-time Visibility Eprocurement Spend management 130

ivalua

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Lifted from their latest webinar, Jean-Baptiste Anne from Amazon Business and Vishal Patel from Ivalua offer insights into tail spend management programs and the ROI these programs can generate for procurement teams. . Lack of control or visibility into what is being spent and with which suppliers. Who purchased it.

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Buyers Real-time Visibility Purchasing Spend management 130

ivalua

JULY 16, 2020

A lack of digital maturity and a focus on supplier cost and quality are also limiting green practices. 16th July 2020, London – Research from Ivalua, a leading provider of spend management cloud solutions, has shown that six-in-ten (60%) UK businesses have decreased their investment in sustainability initiatives due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sustainability 130

Sustainability Real-time Visibility supply chain budgeting Supply chain 130

ivalua

JUNE 10, 2021

Employees can search across internally hosted supplier catalogs, Amazon Business and other supplier sites to see and compare the results side by side on a single screen. With real-time pricing and inventory information to ensure that the items selected are available. All without leaving Ivalua.

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Collaboration Real-time Visibility Eprocurement Spend management 130

Procurement Express

MARCH 14, 2025

Benefits of using purchasing software Managing purchase orders manuallyor relying solely on QuickBookscan lead to approval bottlenecks, overspending, and a lack of real-time visibility into company spending. No one has time to manually match invoices to purchase orders and receipts.

Real-time Visibility 52

Real-time Visibility Purchase orders Procurement Budget 52

ivalua

JUNE 10, 2021

Paris, June 10, 2021 – Ivalua, a global leader in Cloud Spend Management solutions , announced a new capability to provide employees access to Amazon Business directly and seamlessly from within the Ivalua platform, going beyond the traditional PunchOut. Real time pricing and inventory ensures items selected are available.

Real-time Visibility 130

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The Procuretech Podcast

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Managing people-to-people relationships, whether with stakeholders or suppliers, through email chains and Excel sheets isn't particularly effective. Stakeholder and Supplier Collaboration Without Emails and Excel. So, what's in it for the stakeholder or the supplier to use a digital tool?

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Planergy

MARCH 11, 2025

Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. How AP can improve relationships with your key suppliers. How better management in AP can give you better flexibility for cash flow management.

Real-time Visibility 52

Real-time Visibility Purchase orders Purchasing Export 52

Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The Power of Source-to-Pay Digital Transformation To put it briefly, source-to-pay refers to the entire process that starts with finding, negotiating with, and contracting the suppliers of materials, goods and services, and culminates in the final payment for those items. These begin with enhanced visibility.

Supply Chain Efficiency 52

Supply Chain Efficiency Sourcing e2e Real-time Visibility 52

Procurement Insights

APRIL 12, 2025

ProcureTech Solution Providers and Agentic AI Stances Agentic AI in procurement involves AI agents handling tasks like sourcing, contract management, and supplier coordination with minimal human oversight, often integrated into platforms like SAP or Coupa. It automates supplier performance tracking and order fulfillment.

Real-time Visibility 52

Real-time Visibility Ethics Contract Suppliers 52

ivalua

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Ivalua Spend Management Insights [ivory-search] Procurement Rising: The Silent Inflation Tax on Manufacturers February 27, 2023 | | Manufacturing by Doug Keeley Last year, the Consumer Price Index was the highest it has been in four decades, making inflation one of the most concerning macroeconomic factors facing the business world today.

Real-time Visibility 130

Real-time Visibility Procurement Agile and Lean Supply Chain supply chain budgeting 130

Procurement Express

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

If your finance team is drowning in manual work just to get a clear picture of company spend, its not a people problem. The right financial reporting software gives you real-time visibility into where money is going, automates tedious finance tasks, and helps you make smarter decisions faster. Its a software problem.

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 5, 2025

Below is a ranking of the top 10 ProcureTech should-cost solution providersGEP, Zycus, Ivalua, SAP Ariba, Coupa Software, Jaggaer, Keelvar, Lytica, ProPurchaser, and Archletacross three criteria: length of time in business, company size, and top reason for dealing with each one. market share (Apps Run The World, 2023) lead.

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ivalua

JANUARY 24, 2022

Data is central to successful digital transformation to relay real-time information and greater visibility into operations and resource allocation. Data builds the bridge between your own internal supply chain visibility and the information you provide to your stakeholders. Tomorrow the requirement will be something else.

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Data Real-time Visibility Procurement Supply Chain Efficiency 130

Planergy

APRIL 9, 2025

Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. How AP can improve relationships with your key suppliers. How better management in AP can give you better flexibility for cash flow management.

Real-time Visibility 52

Real-time Visibility Risk Data Suppliers 52

Planergy

MAY 25, 2023

How AP can improve relationships with your key suppliers. How better management in AP can give you better flexibility for cash flow management. Proper spend management also includes tracking and controlling company-wide spending, including procurement costs.

Spend management 52

Spend management Management Purchase orders Budget 52

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Loss of sales and market share are the most visible and measurable impacts. Under pressure to quickly identify new sources of supply, due diligence has–at times been reduced, thereby increasing the likelihood of quality issues, unknowingly supporting forced labor, or exposing organizations to fraud.

Risk management 130

Risk management Supply Chain Efficiency Supply Chain Optimization Risk 130

ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

Similar to how CRM manages everything around the customer, an S2P platform manages everything around the supplier. ​ It is a crucial process for organizations that are looking to streamline their procurement activities, better manage spend and suppliers and increase operational efficiency.

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Sourcing Real-time Visibility e2e supply chain software solutions 130

TYA Suite

JANUARY 27, 2025

The real estate industry, characterized by intricate processes and substantial investments, constantly seeks ways to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and ensure timely project completion. From sourcing construction materials to hiring contractors, a well-organized is essential for timely project completion and cost control.

Real-time Visibility 40

Real-time Visibility Management Procurement supply chain budgeting 40

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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Strategic sourcing Strategic sourcing Sourcing supply chain software solutions 52

Una

OCTOBER 17, 2023

EPISODE 137 Using Visibility to Combat Supply Chain Abstraction with Frank Kenney By Kelly Barner | October 18, 2023 In the race to build global empires of data and digital systems, today’s businesses must not risk forgetting what all of those zeroes and ones mean.

supply chain budgeting 81

supply chain budgeting Real-time Visibility Supply Chain Efficiency Supply chain 81

ivalua

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

New Risk Center adds capabilities and integrations to extend existing leadership in enabling holistic management of supplier risk. The latest innovations extend the existing strength of Ivalua’s Supplier Management solution, which had already been recognized as a Leader by Forrester Research Inc.

Risk management 20

Risk management Risk Management Real-time Visibility 20

ivalua

MARCH 27, 2023

E-invoicing Mandate | France 2024 Ivalua Spend Management Insights [ivory-search] Wake Up AP, Before it’s Too Late! The first and most visible element of this change are the emergence of Government tax networks or Continuous Transaction Controls (CTC) systems. What are the implications?

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Procurement strategies Real-time Visibility Agile and Lean Supply Chain Networking 130

ivalua

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Redwood City, CA – Feb 24, 2021 – Ivalua , a global leader in Cloud Spend Management solutions , today announced the general availability of its new platform release 168. The release includes a broad set of innovations to help organizations better manage their spend and suppliers. Sourcing Innovations: .

Supply chain resilience 100

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Planergy

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. How AP can improve relationships with your key suppliers. How better management in AP can give you better flexibility for cash flow management.

Procurement 52

Procurement Supply Chain Efficiency supply chain budgeting Budget 52

TYA Suite

APRIL 13, 2025

Think of it as a roadmap that guides a purchase order through the right handsfrom the employee who needs the item to the manager who approves the budget, and finally to the finance team that processes the payment. By automating and standardizing these steps, businesses save time, reduce errors, and maintain control over spending.

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Purchase orders Purchasing Real-time Visibility Budget 40

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 40

Purchasing supply chain budgeting Supply Chain Efficiency Real-time Visibility 40

Planergy

MARCH 18, 2025

Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. How AP can improve relationships with your key suppliers. How better management in AP can give you better flexibility for cash flow management.

supply chain budgeting 52

supply chain budgeting supply chain software solutions Supply Chain Efficiency Supply chain 52