Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Each stage contributes to a more strategic approach to procurement: Spend management: Despite the title, source to pay cannot really start with sourcing. Category management: Whereas spend management aims to depict the entire landscape, category management fills in the detail for each major spend category.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 14, 2025

Adding to this complexity is tool fragmentation, where organizations struggle with multiple systems for different spend management tasks. For instance, many companies use separate point systems to manage employee expenses and purchases, creating adoption friction and data fragmentation.

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Procurement Insights

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

You require real-time supplier intelligence, automated sourcing, and cross-organization spend management. Use a Metaprise Model if: Your organization needs to collaborate across multiple businesses, suppliers, and procurement networks. You’re working in an industry with high supply chain complexity (e.g.,

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Procurement Insights

MAY 3, 2025

Spend Matters Launch Date: Early 2000s (estimated, ~2004) Overview: Founded by Jason Busch, Spend Matters is a leading procurement blog offering daily posts, research reports, and webinars on spend management, procurement technology, and best practices. It serves analysts, procurement leaders, and managers.

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Procurement Supply Chain Optimization Ethics supply chain software solutions 40

Jaggaer

MARCH 24, 2025

This data empowers procurement teams to negotiate better supplier terms, optimize purchasing decisions, and eliminate wasteful spending ensuring procurement supports broader organizational goals. By harnessing detailed spend data, CPOs can align procurement decisions with strategic goals, driving long-term savings and value.

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Procurement Software

JUNE 22, 2025

Tail Spend Management We’ve examined material and vendor master data—the final puzzle piece is tail spend management. Numerous solutions exist for various budgets and automation levels. Regardless of your size and requirements, you’ll likely find a suitable solution.

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ivalua

JUNE 5, 2025

While the terms procurement and purchasing are often used interchangeably, they address different aspects of an organization’s spend management. Procurement is the strategic, big-picture approach to sourcing and supplier relationship management, while purchasing is the tactical execution of those plans.

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Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

However, although Utz Brands enjoys a long and successful history, Ron understood that he had to be prudent and efficient with the dollars available to invest in technology because he did not have the budget that larger competitors have to spend.

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Spend Matters

JULY 15, 2025

When it comes from on high, the immediate fear is that management is thinking about cutting jobs, whereas applications developed by colleagues do not necessarily come with the impression of ill intent. Peers and stakeholders began to use the tool, and the amount of spend managed on the platform went from zero to millions. “I

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Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

ERPs will usually have some hidden functionality you can exploit, and you can make the most of the likes of ChatGPT and Excel for doing the basics of spend management, and then theres use of macros and plugins for what tech you do have.

Procurement 77

Procurement Real-time Visibility Change management Suppliers 77

ivalua

MAY 16, 2025

For a closer look at the impact of spend transparency, check out our blog on Business Spend Management. Automate and Optimize Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) Automation significantly enhances contract lifecycle management by reducing manual effort and accelerating key processes.

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Procurement Express

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Purchase control should be easy One sure way to control purchases and help your company achieve sustainable growth through efficient spend management is by introducing Procurementexpress.com Purchase Control Software to your projects.

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Procurement Software

JULY 6, 2025

Cost avoidance in procurement rarely gets the recognition it deserves from CFOs. Despite the industry’s shift toward a broader value-driven view of procurement excellence, most teams are still primarily measured on cost savings. Let’s face it: this is frustrating.

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Spend Matters

JULY 1, 2025

Acquisitions Coupa buys Cirtuo, adds category management to its spend management suite Coupa announced during its Inspire 2025 event that it has acquired Cirtuo, a provider of category management software. And they are testing the limits of procurement’s preparedness.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

JAGGAER characterizes the steps in this process as Spend Management, Category Management, Sourcing , and Contracts. These four steps constitute the upstream source-to-contract part of the process. Secondly come eProcurement, Supply Chain Collaboration, Invoicing, and Payments.

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Barkers Procurement

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Spend management technology can be instrumental in achieving this. Without this visibility, its impossible to maintain the resilience and agility needed to handle demand spikes. Procurement should do what it takes, therefore, to make visibility a priority.

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ivalua

JUNE 3, 2025

For more information on analyzing spend management, check out our Spend Analysis section. According to one interviewed business, it increased from 20% to 58% in the first year and is expected to exceed 80% by 2027, unlocking millions in cost reductions.

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TYA Suite

JUNE 22, 2025

It integrates procurement data across the supply chain and provides spend analysis, and contract compliance features. Coupa is a popular procurement and spend management platform known for its intuitive interface and strong analytics tools.

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TYA Suite

APRIL 13, 2025

Why Its More Than Just Paperwork A modernPurchase Order Approval Workflowisnt about adding red tapeits aboutsmarter spending. Managers can see pending requests, approved orders, and spending trends instantly, avoiding guesswork. Automated rules flag purchases that dont meet guidelines (e.g., No more lost emails or sticky notes.

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Planergy

MAY 8, 2025

Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. What's PLANERGY?

Strategy 52

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ivalua

MAY 29, 2025

Supply Chain Management: Procurement is responsible for identifying suppliers, negotiating contracts, and ensuring cost-effective, compliant purchases. It’s heavily tied to spend management, risk mitigation, and supplier performance.

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Spend Matters

MAY 27, 2025

Automated spend management AI-powered spend analytics automatically reconcile procurement cost data with financial reports, reducing the risk of mismatched data and inaccurate financial forecasting. Fraxion Spend management platform offering expense management, focusing on quick deployment, low cost and fast ROI.

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Real-time Visibility Procurement supply chain budgeting Supply Chain Optimization 103

Planergy

JANUARY 16, 2025

Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. What's PLANERGY? Download PDF Whats your goal today? To discover how we can help grow your business: Read our case studies, client success stories, and testimonials.

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 5, 2025

6 Coupa Software 2006 Founded in 2006, a relatively younger leader in spend management. 2 Coupa Software 3,000+ employees Publicly traded, $725M revenue (2023), a major player in business spend management. 2 Jaggaer 1995 Founded as SciQuest in 1995, rebranded to Jaggaer, just edging out SAP Ariba.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Core NPI , a longstanding and market-leading IT spend optimization service provider, has begun augmenting its traditional SaaS sourcing service offerings (including consulting and managed services) with its new SaaS intelligence tool, NPI Vantage Pro , an IT Procurement Platform to solve the challenges involved in IT procurement.

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ivalua

JUNE 12, 2025

What to Look for in Spend Analysis Software Choosing the right spend analysis software is critical to scaling your impact and delivering measurable value across procurement, finance, and operations.

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Barkers Procurement

MAY 7, 2025

By investing in and harnessing crucial spend management technology, procurement can stay well-informed and be ready to weather whatever comes its way. It’s crucial, then, that CPOs invest in digital tools to make supplier data more accessible. This will set up their teams to stay competitive, compliant and creative.

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Jaggaer

JUNE 24, 2025

Beginning this fall, JAI will offer the full orchestration of intelligent features by developing agent orchestrators to handle tasks like forecasting, spend management, cash flow management, contract management, and RFx automation, into a unified, conversational, and outcome-driven experience.

Procurement 52

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Procurement Express

MARCH 14, 2025

While it doesnt handle purchase orders or vendor procurement directly, Ramp is a powerful tool for businesses that need a modern approach to spend management with deep QuickBooks integration. Its ideal for finance teams that need to streamline vendor payments and cash flow management while keeping everything synced with QuickBooks.

Real-time Visibility 52

Real-time Visibility Procurement Purchase orders Budget 52

Spend Matters

MAY 19, 2025

A strong framework aligns procurement with financial strategy, embedding spend management, supplier insight and cost-saving initiatives into financial planning and decision making. Without this, procurements financial impact may go unmeasured, while finance may lack visibility into supplier costs and risks.

Collaboration 90

Collaboration Procurement Real-time Visibility Budget 90

Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

We normally now refer to the first step as spend management and we use spend analytics technology to aggregate and explore spend data. However, the source-to-pay technology that has been developed over the past 30 years allows us to tweak it somewhat, in terms of content as well as using contemporary terminology.

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Fraxion

MAY 8, 2025

Youre expected to manage cost pressures, lead digital transformation, support strategic decisions, and respond to shifting regulatory and talent demands while keeping the business financially strong. The role of a CFO is becoming more strategic than ever. As a finance leader in 2025, your role goes far beyond oversight.

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Spend Matters

MARCH 26, 2025

Companies with multiple locations and decentralized procurement processes are increasingly seeking automation, visibility and control over their spending and, consequently, are moving toward more holistic procurement solutions.

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