Procurement Express

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Understanding these categories is the first step toward better visibility, smarter procurement processes, and tighter budget control. When you’re comparing direct and indirect spend, half the battle comes down to managing changes in the supply chain. Create vendor and supplier expense management policies.

Spend management

Jaggaer

MARCH 24, 2025

Predictive AI, on the other hand, uses historical data to forecast potential disruptions, price changes, and supply chain risks. Impact on Procurement: Spend analytics give CPOs visibility into spending patterns, supplier performance, and inefficiencies. Ready for Long-Term Procurement Success?

Procurement

Procurement Software

JULY 6, 2025

Think of common indirect categories: IT infrastructure Facilities management Capex for machinery & equipment Property maintenance Fabricated spare parts Promotional goods All of these require skilled negotiation to avoid costs that would otherwise hit the company’s budget.

Procurement

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. In this way, the procurement function becomes a strategic business partner that not only contains costs but delivers true value and even helps to generate revenue.

Sourcing

Planergy

MARCH 18, 2025

Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. How better management in AP can give you better flexibility for cash flow management. But what happens if those supply chains are disrupted?

supply chain budgeting

Procurement Express

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Purchasing is about getting the right stuff at the right time from the right suppliers for a fair price without blowing up your budget or your supplier relationships. Throw in approvals, payment terms, shipping costs, sustainability concerns, and maybe a dash of I know a guy supplier loyalty, and suddenly its chaos.

Purchasing

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

Jaggaer

MAY 16, 2025

In many industries, procurement is responsible for managing significant budgets which means it holds a key lever for business performance. This means that, beyond cost savings, they can also influence the top line. Proper orchestration of supply chains enhances corporate resilience. Its actually quite obvious.

supply chain budgeting

Procurement Software

JUNE 22, 2025

This single data issue can be responsible for $ hundreds of thousands in unnecessary spending, especially in mid-sized companies where procurement typically is more tactical than strategic. The essential question: Who’s responsible for paying freight costs? Numerous solutions exist for various budgets and automation levels.

Data

Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

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

Supply Chain Efficiency

TYA Suite

JUNE 22, 2025

Procurement analytics platforms enable access for multiple users across departments, encouraging collaboration between procurement, finance, supply chain, and operations teams. Several types of analysis are applied: : Analyze your spending to find out how much, with whom, and on what.

Procurement

Planergy

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. How better management in AP can give you better flexibility for cash flow management. Though it makes budgeting a bit more complex , its often worth it.

Procurement

Spend Matters

JUNE 2, 2025

While traditional KPIs often emphasize cost savings or budget control, aligned organizations take a more strategic approach, tracking performance indicators that reflect the joint impact of finance and procurement on business outcomes. Track spend under management to determine how much organizational spend is strategically controlled.

Sustainability

Planergy

MARCH 19, 2025

Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. Managing these suppliers isnt just about making purchases; it ensures smooth operations, cost savings, and quality education. What is Supplier Management?

Suppliers

Supply Chain Digital

JUNE 16, 2025

Coupa Software & PwC explore how ‘Total Spend Management’ can help UK employers reduce costs in response to National Insurance increases from April

Spend management

TYA Suite

APRIL 13, 2025

You might face delays in approvals, end up placing duplicate orders, or be surprised by unexpected costs. Without a proper system, it becomes harder to track budgets, follow company rules, and manage suppliers. It saves time, reduces mistakes, and gives you a clear view of all purchases, helping you make better decisions.

Purchasing

TYA Suite

JULY 13, 2025

It’s time to align procurement and AP efforts not just for efficiency, but for smarter, more strategic spend management. Your disconnected spending processes are costing you Your procurement team is busy managing , working with vendors, and ensuring timely deliveries. The result? Why your AP team will thank you 1.

Real-time Visibility

Let's Talk Supply Chain

MARCH 5, 2025

Leveraging Reveels unique position in parcel spend management within the Supply Chain/Logistics ecosystem, Marc collaborates with adjacent solutions to provide comprehensive offerings for high-volume shippers. How do I shape where I need to go next year, knowing that supply chain is changing really quickly?

supply chain software solutions

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. This comprehensive solution streamlines procurement activities, improves and provides transparency across the entire supply chain.

Real-time Visibility

Procurement Express

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Some focus on cloud accounting and bookkeeping, while others specialize in forecasting, budgeting, purchasing, and compliance. The best virtual CFOs combine multiple tools to create a system that reduces manual work and improves financial visibility. Thats where a virtual CFO tool stack comes in handy. Consider scalability.

Real-time Visibility

Procurement Insights

JANUARY 8, 2025

Considering the above, the following high-level comparison between ConvergentIS and SAP Ariba demonstrates how the agent-based model will be the dominant force that drives procurement and supply chain automation in 2025 and beyond. Key Products: Ariba Network, Spend Analysis, Strategic Sourcing Suite, and Contract Management.

supply chain budgeting

Let's Talk Supply Chain

JUNE 18, 2025

Michael is passionate about Reveel’s mission to level the playing field and create transparency for parcel shippers and enjoys helping companies create optimized supply chains by transforming data into actionable intelligence. Jennifer is an innovative manager with over 20 years of supply chain and logistics experience.

Supply Chain Optimization

ivalua

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The majority of organizations consider supply chain transparency to be a top priority, however less than a third are satisfied with the level of visibility into their suppliers. Most organizations continue to suffer from severely limited visibility in the lower levels of their supply chains. About the research.

Supply Chain Efficiency

Planergy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. Using financial tools can help save time and resources while improving accuracy in the budgeting process. Why is Business Budgeting Important? Budgeting should be part of regular financial planning.

supply chain budgeting

ivalua

JULY 11, 2022

New release features AI-powered contract management, more seamless messaging and communications, supplier risk and performance enhancements and procure-to-pay efficiency . Redwood City, CA – 11 July, 2022 – Ivalua , a global leader in Cloud Spend Management solutions , announced the general availability of its new platform release 174.

Supply chain resilience

Spend Matters

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Categories: Analysis , Procurement Systems & Architecture , Spend Management , Supply Chain , Supply Chain Management , Trade Financing Tags: PRO This Spend Matters PRO Vendor Analysis gives an overview of Trax, a Transportation Spend Management (TSM) solution.

Spend management

NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

MARCH 16, 2023

Spend Management is a critical function within an organization, and it involves the strategic management of the company’s spending to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and enhance profitability. However, I also recognize that we need to balance cost savings with the need to invest in the future.

Spend management

Una

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Amplify Your Business Spend Management Strategies with a GPO. Any business, regardless of size, can take advantage of the “strength in numbers” concept and access pre-negotiated contracts with some of the nation’s top suppliers and vendors , saving big on their portion of spend. GPOs aren’t just about generating cost savings.

Spend management

Procurement Tactics

JANUARY 8, 2023

It can also help drive sustainability initiatives in your supply chain and procurement process. . The Closed Loop Spend Management. You may ask yourself, why is closed loop spend management being brought up? Allocate budgets that reflect potential social and environmental impacts and levers.

Sustainability

ivalua

JUNE 14, 2023

Ivalua Spend Management Insights [ivory-search] Get Ready for Success! Gartner, 4 Workstreams for Successful Implementation of Any Procurement Application Vishal Patel VP Product Marketing Vishal has spent the last 1​5​ years in various roles within the Procurement and Supply Chain technology market.

Procurement

ivalua

JULY 10, 2019

Best practice supply chain & procurement capabilities now available for rapid deployment to manufacturers. Redwood City, CA July 10, 2019 – Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, today announced the availability of a pre-packaged suite of solutions for manufacturers.

supply chain budgeting

ivalua

AUGUST 29, 2019

Purchasing (45%), invoicing (41%) and budget management (39%) are the most digitised processes to date. Full digital transformation remains a long way off for most Procurement and supply chain organisations. 67% of respondents say it is limiting their ability to gain insights into spend and supplier management. “The

Procurement

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

ivalua

MARCH 11, 2020

Ikea is a leader with plans to ensure a sustainable supply chain. Many changes can reduce costs or reduce risk at the same time as delivering improved CSR. Digitization of Procurement and supply chain is an area that is ripe for incrementalism. This is a shame not just for the social benefit.

supply chain budgeting

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

Procurement Tactics

JULY 2, 2023

Budget Control When it comes to maintaining budgetary control throughout the entire procurement process, job orders are crucial. Managers and businesses may be able to monitor their expenditures in comparison with the approved and allocated budget by indicating expected costs and financial parameters in a job order.

supply chain budgeting

ivalua

MARCH 17, 2021

Office of Management and Budget (OMB) estimates federal grants to states and local governments in FY2019 totaled nearly three quarters of a trillion dollars. To put that in perspective, the US GDP that year was just over $21 trillion and federal spend was $4.4 trillion, making grants roughly 17% of the total federal budget. .

Supply Chain Efficiency