Spend Matters

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In no order of preference, other than by the date they arrived in our inbox, today let’s hear from: Donna Wilczek, EVP Strategy and Innovation at Coupa , spend management suite provider and one of Spend Matters 50 Procurement Providers to Know. So, 2024 … are you ready for it? Coupa and our customers are ready.

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Spend Matters

JULY 10, 2024

Intake manage and orchestration During the second quarter of 2024, the Spend Matters team gave special attention to ‘ Intake and Orchestration Solutions ‘ The major highlights are described below. We then look ahead to what members can expect in the coming months.

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ivalua

JUNE 11, 2023

Ivalua Spend Management Insights [ivory-search] Navigating CSRD Regulation: What Procurement, Supply Chain, and Finance Leaders Need to Know June 12, 2023 | | Sustainability by Vishal Patel In an effort to drive sustainability and combat climate change, the European Union has introduced the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).

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Spend Matters

APRIL 4, 2024

Artificial intelligence in procurement During the first quarter of 2024, the Spend Matters team followed the theme of ‘ Artificial Intelligence in Procurement. Meet AI’ In the ‘ Meet AI ’ series, the Spend Matters analyst team explored the implementation of AI in various segments of the procurement process.

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 5, 2025

6 Coupa Software 2006 Founded in 2006, a relatively younger leader in spend management. Rank Provider Est. Size Reasoning 1 SAP Ariba 102,000+ (SAP total) SAPs global workforce (2024) and Aribas 25.4% 2 Coupa Software 3,000+ employees Publicly traded, $725M revenue (2023), a major player in business spend management.

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CPO Rising

JULY 31, 2024

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up series continues this week with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements.

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Spend Matters

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Travel and Expense management leveraging SAP Concur is an easy plug in for travel spend management and all spend flowing through expense reporting. SAP is also developing additional use cases in collaboration with customers with availability planned for the first half of 2024.”

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ivalua

OCTOBER 25, 2022

49% believe that global supply chains won’t fully recover to pre-Covid operational norms until 2024 or beyond. As external systemic shocks continue to impact value chains, nearly half of respondents (49%) believe that global supply chains won’t fully recover to pre-Covid operational norms until 2024 or beyond. About Ivalua. .

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 4, 2025

Network Member Question Aside from the basics of spend analysis and eliminating redundancy, Im curious to hear of others experiences in dealing with merger/acquisitions and how the cultural elements were addressed in terms of promoting the use of preferred vendors and the adoption of expense management policy.

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Pipefy

JANUARY 30, 2024

In the 2024 State of Procurement Data Report by Amazon Business, 95% of decision-makers surveyed acknowledge that there’s room for procurement optimization. Learn about six solutions that can be applied in 2024, why you should apply them, and how to get started. Contract and compliance management. Purchase orders.

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CPO Rising

AUGUST 14, 2024

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up series continues this week with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements.

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CPO Rising

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up Series continues this week with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Now we have entered a period of relative stability, spend management and cost reduction has moved back to the top spot, and ensuring supply continuity has moved from first down to second. These have changed over recent years as new challenges have emerged. Coping with inflationary price increases remains at number 3.

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Una

JUNE 19, 2024

EPISODE 170 Understanding Data and Risk in Decision Making with Blake Tablak By Kelly Barner | June 19, 2024 The volume of data available at our fingertips can sometimes create the illusion that any information is accessible, that decision making is improved, and that failure is avoidable.

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Art of Procurement

JULY 30, 2023

In 2023, The post [Pod] Halfway to 2024: An Art of Procurement Mid-Year Check In w/ Kelly Barner and Philip Ideson appeared first on Art of Procurement. It has become our tradition to write an annual letter that accompanies the first podcast of the year.

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CPO Rising

JULY 10, 2024

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up series continues this week with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements.

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CPO Rising

JUNE 19, 2024

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up series continues this week with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements.

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CPO Rising

MAY 8, 2024

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up series continues this week with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements.

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Spend Matters

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In eWorld dispatch 2 we covered the new procurement tech vendors exhibiting at eWorld and gave a run down of their key capabilities and plans, including Advanced spend management suite, PAID tail spend procurement automation, and Vendr SaaS buying platform. Read his recommendations in eWorld: first dispatch.

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CPO Rising

JANUARY 31, 2024

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up Series returns today with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements. Please drop […]

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CPO Rising

MAY 29, 2024

If you are a sourcing, procurement, or spend management solution provider and you are continually innovating the way that procurement and supply chain leaders and practitioners drive value, we’d love to hear from you. […]

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CPO Rising

MARCH 27, 2024

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up series continues this week with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements.

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CPO Rising

MARCH 13, 2024

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up series continues this week with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements.

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CPO Rising

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up series continues this week with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements.

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Planergy

JANUARY 21, 2025

Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. Example of a Bank Reconciliation Using the following information, were going to complete a bank reconciliation for ABC Company for December 2024. What's PLANERGY?

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Procurement Insights

DECEMBER 6, 2023

” Here is the first post on Zycus – “ Doing What Comes Naturally: Accessing Zycus Spend Management Innovation Through A Simplified and Practical User Interface (Zycus Inc. For 2024, I am going to be selecting a handful of what I believe are the service providers who warrant investigation beyond the map.

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Fraxion

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In 2024, financial leaders must demonstrate agility in response to changes marked by emerging technologies, evolving mandates, shifting talent markets, and the need for strategic cost management.

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Barkers Procurement

JULY 15, 2024

Barkers are pleased to announce its strategic partnership with Mandant Solutions , which will provide customers and prospective customers with a solution, the ERP Accelerator, to quickly and seamlessly integrate their systems with the best-in-class spend management software Coupa.

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Barkers Procurement

JULY 15, 2024

Barkers are pleased to announce its strategic partnership with Mandant Solutions , which will provide customers and prospective customers with a solution, the ERP Accelerator, to quickly and seamlessly integrate their systems with the best-in-class spend management software Coupa.

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Barkers Procurement

JULY 5, 2024

Barkers are pleased to announce its strategic partnership with Mandant Solutions , which will provide customers and prospective customers with to quickly and seamlessly integrate their systems with the best-in-class spend management software Coupa.

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Empowering CPO

AUGUST 20, 2024

By following this roadmap, organizations can systematically improve their procurement processes and maximize the benefits of their spend analysis efforts. The company was founded in 2011 and since then has executed multiple strategic sourcing projects and have achieved average savings of 10-12% so far.

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Spend Matters

JANUARY 5, 2024

Intake management PayEm specializes in intake and user-configurable workflow creation, enabling customers to capture spend at the point in which employees incur spend. While the solution addresses direct, indirect and services spend, most customers primarily use PayEm for indirect and services I2P and spend management.

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Procurement Express

JULY 15, 2024

Dublin, Ireland – [12 July 2024] – SRO Software Ltd, the leading provider of purchasing software solutions, is proud to announce the launch of Rubberstamp.io, a simplified and affordable purchase order management software designed specifically for small businesses. For more information about Rubberstamp.io, visit Rubberstamp.io.

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Arkestro

MARCH 27, 2024

But in 2024, the role has never been more important. After years of focusing on cost reduction, the majority of procurement leaders say they plan to spend more and increase workloads in 2024, meaning procurement buyers will have more power to influence change and optimize spend across the entire supply chain.

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Arkestro

AUGUST 29, 2024

In this article, we’ll discuss the modern definition of high-tech manufacturing and share key challenges the industry faces in 2024. Here are some of the top challenges of high-tech manufacturing in 2024. Managing these supplies can be time-consuming and complex, leading to inefficiencies and higher administrative costs.

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CPO Rising

APRIL 29, 2024

Last week the Ardent Partners analyst team attended Coupa Inspire at the fashionable Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. According to Coupa, this was the largest Inspire so far with about 3,000 attendees and 50 sponsors/partners in the exhibition hall (or the community village as Coupa calls it). This was my first Coupa Inspire […]

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Jaggaer

JULY 10, 2024

According to PwC’s 2024 Voice of the Consumer Survey , “while cost-of-living pressures weigh, some consumers say they are willing to spend 9.7% Best practices in five steps Managing the 80% challenge takes place in five steps in the upstream end of procurement (i.e., Spend management: It begins here in most organizations.

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