Spend Matters

JUNE 19, 2023

In this article, our analyst Nikhil Gaur looks at contract lifecycle management (CLM) platforms. What does a contract lifecycle management solution do? Top 5 Contract Lifecycle Management tech capabilities What’s the state of different procurement technologies in the market today and do they meet user demands?

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Procurement Express

MARCH 9, 2025

If your company relies on vendors, an efficient purchase order (PO) system is essential for keeping cash flow predictable and preventing budget surprises. It serves as a legally binding contract between your business and your vendors. If QuickBooks PO system is slowing you down, it may be time to level up. The good news?

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Jaggaer

MARCH 24, 2025

Together, they enable procurement teams to move from reactive to proactive, optimizing sourcing strategies, improving supplier negotiations, and ensuring more accurate, real-time decision-making. Impact on Procurement: Spend analytics give CPOs visibility into spending patterns, supplier performance, and inefficiencies.

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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. Not yet anyway!

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TYA Suite

OCTOBER 27, 2024

With automated systems, purchase orders can be generated based on predefined criteria, such as inventory levels or specific triggers, ensuring timely and accurate procurement. Real-time tracking and reporting capabilities allow organizations to monitor the status of purchase orders, deliveries, and payments.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Comprehensive Curriculum: MCIPS covers a broad spectrum of topics, from procurement principles and strategies to contract management, negotiation, and ethical considerations. Think of it as the gold standard for procurement professionals. It provides a holistic view of the procurement landscape.

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Procurement Express

DECEMBER 31, 2024

It integrates with cost accounting systems to track spending, ensures smoother workflows for accounts payable and accounts receivable, and provides real-time visibility into purchasing activities. By providing real-time insights, it helps businesses identify unnecessary spending and make informed decisions to optimize budgets.

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Planergy

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

While less visible, these procurement areas are crucial for maintaining a functional educational environment. Educational leaders use strategic procurement to negotiate favorable contracts, explore innovative solutions, and drive institutional efficiency. Though it makes budgeting a bit more complex , its often worth it.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It also has an impact on procurement teams as they are responsible for managing supplier relationships, identifying opportunities for cost savings, and ensuring that goods and services are delivered on time and within budget. This ensures contracts remain favorable and all stakeholders comply with negotiated terms.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

After the contract is signed, goods or services are delivered and payments are made. Without them, it will be more difficult to manage spending, control budgeting, vet your suppliers, and do what you need to do to get the most out of your procurement process. Spend Visibility. Real-time Spend Tracking.

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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.

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Procurement Insights

JANUARY 3, 2025

Here’s a breakdown of the shifts over this period: 2011: Procurement as a Tactical Function Primary Focus on Cost Savings : In 2011, CFOs largely viewed procurement as a cost-control function , tasked with negotiating contracts, reducing spend, and maintaining compliance with budgets.

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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.

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ivalua

AUGUST 17, 2021

A recent study by Forrester found that the single greatest factor in increasing a supplier’s willingness to collaborate with and share innovations with a customer was timeliness of and visibility into payments. It is not uncommon for organizations to spend time on supplier enablement without achieving a huge amount.

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TYA Suite

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Spend management software offers companies the tools to streamline financial operations, monitor expenses, and maintain control over their budgets. These tools automate the tracking of purchases, invoices, and payments, making it easier for companies to stay within budget while improving operational efficiency.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

e Procurement has been part of the technology footprint in many states for decades, to reduce cycle times, streamline processes, and collaborate with suppliers. . This includes gaining greater visibility into potential business through a transparent, competitive, and frictionless proces s, whether they are awarded a contract or not.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

eProcurement has been part of the technology footprint in many states for decades, to reduce cycle times, streamline processes, and collaborate with suppliers. . This includes gaining greater visibility into potential business through a transparent, competitive, and frictionless proces s, whether they are awarded a contract or not.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Lack of control or visibility into what is being spent and with which suppliers. Budgeting challenges as tail spend typically often not planned for . Once you have visibility into your tail spend, you can look at patterns. Non-compliance with internal policies and regulation, creating legal risks for the company. .

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ivalua

OCTOBER 1, 2020

A recent study by Forrester found that the single greatest factor in increasing a supplier’s willingness to collaborate with and share innovations with a customer was timeliness of and visibility into payments. Organizations cannot improve invoice match rates when there is no visibility into the root causes of match failures.

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Procurement Templates

JUNE 18, 2023

ChatGPT Inflation refers to the general increase in prices of goods and services in an economy over time, resulting in a decrease in the purchasing power of money. These indices track the average price changes of a basket of goods and services over time. What is inflation?

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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.

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Jaggaer

MARCH 6, 2025

Harnessing Advanced Technologies & Proving Benefit Modern procurement systems must integrate advanced technologies to streamline processes and enhance decision-making: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML): AI and ML are now indispensable for automating repetitive tasks, such as supplier evaluations and contract management.

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Planergy

MARCH 18, 2025

Common disruptions such as economic instability, vendor delays, natural disasters, and supply shortages uniquely challenge schools due to tight budgets and rigid schedules. Tools like PLANERGY enhance supply chain resilience by providing real-time tracking, data-driven insights, and streamlined communication with suppliers.

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Procurement Express

DECEMBER 31, 2024

In this article, we’ll go over a few ways to improve the process: education, gaining spend visibility , categorizing spend by supplier or department, etc. Understanding these categories is the first step toward better visibility, smarter procurement processes, and tighter budget control.

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Planergy

DECEMBER 25, 2023

How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. Thanks to AI and other tools, you can now make better decisions with real-time data. It is the driving force behind financial decision-making, providing essential insights that guide strategic planning and budgeting. Let’s delve into the details.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Serious issues related to key Government contracts had become headline stories across the UK media and this needed to stop. At the time, organisations were understandably keen to capture the benefits but, in many cases, they took leaps of blind faith and dot.com became dot.bomb. This is especially true in procurement!

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SCMDOJO

MAY 6, 2022

The growth of coding capabilities and accessible resources can help several firms consolidate data sources and create real-time visibility throughout the end-to-end supply chain using no-code development platforms. The benefits include cost savings and a quick turnaround time from development to implementation.

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Spend Matters

APRIL 4, 2024

The technology opens up a wealth of capabilities not previously possible for the procurement practitioner in terms of data availability, end-to-end visibility, cost, time and risk reduction, and ultimately the overall health of the third-party network. And those risk factors can change at any time; it’s a very dynamic landscape.

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Procurement Heads

JANUARY 30, 2023

Procurement is more about contract management and negotiating great commercials for your business. IT procurement provides a lot more visibility to senior stakeholders within the business. CIPS is valuable because it allows you to apply your theory to the real world. Negotiation is a hobby for me.

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TYA Suite

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

From reducing fraud to improving and automating contract management, blockchain is shaping the future of procurement in ways previously unimaginable. It also enables the use of smart contracts, which automatically complete tasks like payments when certain conditions are met. This level of visibility is invaluable for several reasons.

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Spend Matters

JUNE 19, 2023

budget compliance and inventory availability), enable effective spend, preferred supplier and category management. PO orchestration The ability to optimize ordering efficiency while supporting category needs and remaining compliant with budgets, contracts and accounting.

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Procurement Software

MAY 16, 2023

It may feel like P2P suites are the sole preserve of large enterprises with huge budgets. Above $1 billion businesses are typically a target of established, enterprise source-to-pay and source-to-contract suites. The module also includes features such as contract management, invoice processing, and payment processing.

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ivalua

AUGUST 5, 2020

Invoice to Pay sits at the end of a Procurement process that starts with a need, moves through selecting and contracting with a supplier and ends with delivery of goods or services. . This makes paying an invoice faster, simpler and on time.

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 8, 2024

Introduction to Contract Management Contract management is the process of systematically and efficiently managing contract creation, execution, and analysis to maximize operational and financial performance at an organization. Effective contract management provides numerous benefits for companies across industries.

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Procurement Software

JUNE 20, 2023

The contract management software market is hot right now. Organisations seem to have finally realised that they’ve suffered from having a “desk drawer” approach to contracts. Being able to manage your contracts in one place, author them, approve them and sign them is a massive productivity boost.

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Una

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

This guide to IT procurement is designed to help you navigate the often complex process of searching for and comparing different technology providers, negotiating contracts and pricing, and implementing the right IT tools to drive productivity and efficiency without sacrificing your organization’s bottom line. Data Driven Decision Making.

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Spend Matters

JUNE 19, 2023

Why buy a Procure-to-Pay solution Integrated P2P solutions help procurement and finance by implementing sourced contracts to actually deliver value, reduce paper-based processes and improve operational efficiency and effectiveness. They reduce late payments, optimize working capital and minimize risk and non-compliance.

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