Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Larger organizations likely have matured and updated their tech environment over many years with best-of-breed or suite solutions, so its easier for them to get the organization on board with an end-to-end digital transformation.

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Spend Matters

APRIL 5, 2023

Categories: Contract Management , Procurement Systems & Architecture , Solution Providers , Source-to-Contract Tags: PRO This Spend Matters PRO Vendor Analysis provides an overview of Spendflo and its solution for SaaS procurement and management. Read more. )

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Orsay (France), September 02, 2019 – Viparis has chosen e-Procurement software vendor Ivalua and Consulting firm CKS to optimize the management of supplier relations, source-to-contract (purchase orders, calls for tender and contracts), expense analysis and measurement of Procurement performance.

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Spend Matters

AUGUST 28, 2023

At the same time, the importance and criticality of services spend for organizations hasn’t shrunk (on the contrary …) nor the need to address typical challenges and hurdles inherent to complex service categories: inefficient processes, lack of control and low spend visibility. This content is for members only.

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ivalua

MAY 19, 2022

This allows for part-payments, quality or milestone-based contract terms, even payment on receipt to be visible to the supplier, finance, treasury, and the buyers. All this is transparent across the payment journey, to the buyer and supplier. There are several very visible areas of monetary savings.

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Supply Chain Efficiency Real-time Visibility e2e Buyers 130

ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

S2P is the end-to-end process that encompasses all the activities between an organization and its suppliers. Upstream covers all the strategic procurement activities such as spend analysis, sourcing, contract management and supplier management (which includes supplier information, risk and performance management).

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Spend Matters

JULY 10, 2023

The complexity of S2P with its use of multiple systems to address each aspect it covers, manual processes, data quality issues and process variations can make managing the end-to-end process difficult. Organizations need to invest in technologies that improve visibility and control over the entire S2P process.

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Market analysis e2e Contract management Spend management 98

ivalua

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Enormous, complex, global enterprises use procurement technology to manage their spend, suppliers, contracts and bids every day without seeming to run into the same stumbling blocks as the public sector, which operates on a smaller and more localized basis.

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Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Even if logistics teams are more responsible for operational fulfillment, procurement still has a massive impact on it in terms of the initial design of the supply network (Design For Supply) and in the contracting of conditions (prices, Incoterm, MOQ, etc.). Read more. )

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Spend Matters

JUNE 21, 2024

Intake and orchestration (I&O) solutions can transform initial customer requests and subsequent interactions for just about any business into streamlined, end-to-end, secure and transparent engagements. To understand their proposition read our Buyers Guide To Intake and Orchestration solutions.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The result is improved business processes and the agility that makes you nimble—whatever comes. Strategies for Building Resilient Supply Chains Recurring disturbances in recent years have highlighted the need for manufacturers and contract manufacturers to build resilience into their supply chains. Performance and stability can waver.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

It is a process that creates efficiencies across all spend categories, minimizes supply chain risks through improved supplier selection and awards, while giving visibility into pricing and forecasting. We also now break down the negotiation stage into sourcing and final negotiation of contracts. How Has Strategic Sourcing Evolved?

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Spend Matters

JUNE 24, 2024

Yet buyers agonize over purchasing a car — with good reason. Orchestration : Beyond the technical aspects, how does the system handle data harmonization, task handover and visibility, and automation? Just as all car buyers are different, no two companies are exactly alike. Selecting a software vendor is a bit like buying a car.

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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

AUGUST 30, 2022

Strategic sourcing experts are using machine learning to categorize and manage spend, AI to better predict demand, and act upon alerts such as contract expiry/renewals. IT Procurement | Stranger Things Keeping IT Buyers Up at Night. Digital procurement game-changers. Related Posts. How to Procure Cloud Services for Business Use.

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Jaggaer

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The Essential Guide to Source to Pay, Source to Contract, and Procure to Pay Whether youre new to the world of procurement and supply chain management, or a seasoned veteran; whether you work in a major manufacturing industry, a university, or a medium-sized clinical research organization, you may find procurement jargon rather confusing.

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The Procuretech Podcast

APRIL 12, 2022

My guest today is Giles Thompson, Chief Growth Officer of London-based contract process automation tool Avvoka. Whereas in reality, the vast majority of contracts don't need to go to Legal for the green light or for very straightforward, commercially driven amendments. How to simplify and self-serve legal advice to buyers.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2023

We believe these companies deserve greater visibility, especially in a market which is increasingly consolidating and diluting buyer choices. There was still a lack of functionality, particularly in contract management. So we are delighted to introduce you to our Future 5 as we capture their voices. What is dSilo?

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 9, 2025

Strategic Fit: Amex aimed to build an end-to-end B2B platform (Anna Marrs, Amex), enhancing its supplier-side offerings beyond card issuance. Supplier Focus: Ramps supplier management is buyer-centric (e.g., It automates procure-to-pay processes, reducing manual friction (PYMNTS, 2023). PO syncing, bill pay). manufacturing).

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 24, 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. All too often, Invoice-to-Pay is seen as an isolated process, sitting on its own at the end of a procurement journey.

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Procurement Insights

MAY 27, 2024

(In the test case, a major public sector organization realized a 23% cost of goods savings annually over a period of several years while simultaneously reducing the number of buyers required to manage the contract to 3 from an original 23. Delivery performance and product quality also improved dramatically.)” ” 30

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Procurement Software

MAY 16, 2023

Above $1 billion businesses are typically a target of established, enterprise source-to-pay and source-to-contract suites. Onventis Onventis provides a Procure-to-Pay module for buyers that streamlines the procurement process from purchasing to payment. This is not sponsored content No provider has paid us to be part of this list.

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Zycus Cognitive Procurement

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The Source-to-Pay(S2P) process begins with identifying and evaluating relevant suppliers, contracting with those suppliers, placing orders, monitoring the supply of the ordered products and services, authorization, and the final release of payment. A Source-to-Pay cycle is a holistic approach that covers end-to-end procurement lifecycle.

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Pipefy

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This includes: Sourcing Solicitation Issuing payments Supplier management Vetting new suppliers Negotiating terms Setting up contracts Example of the S2P process ( click here to enlarge ) Source-to-pay is similar to procure-to-pay (P2P), but it differs slightly. They also make it easy for buyers to compare suppliers and negotiate.

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Pipefy

JANUARY 31, 2023

Procurement risks occur wherever visibility and control are limited. In addition to time and resources wasted through inefficient workflows, mistakes, and duplicate data entry, an unoptimized P2P process can cost the business in terms of late payment penalties, missed discount opportunities, and its reputation as a reliable buyer.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Your goal might be to transition from purely traditional buyer-supplier business arrangements, fine-tune strong supplier relationships that yield average results, or something in between. These may also emerge during contract negotiations and any supplier development programs, resulting in more favorable terms with more reliable suppliers.

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Collaboration Supply Chain Efficiency Suppliers Agile and Lean Supply Chain 52

Spend Matters

JUNE 19, 2023

Data Modeling The ability to build more sophisticated analyses on cost drivers, demand, contracts, working capital, risk, supply chain and overall procurement performance while maintaining data that is flexible and rich enough to fully support this type of spend analytics. We have seen top performers who take MDM capabilities a step further.

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Procurement Software

APRIL 4, 2023

Supplier evaluation and selection Once the suppliers have applied to quote/tender, the buyer must examine the responses and identify a shortlist of potential suppliers. Purchase order As well as negotiating the best price for the goods or services, the buyer must review the terms and conditions.

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HICX

MAY 12, 2023

In his words, “If we don’t have visibility of it, we don’t know where to go at it.” Analytics, on the other hand, done correctly, can provide this visibility. Buyers, he says, are spending a lot of time trying to get materials to their factories. We do not need an end-to-end solution.

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Pipefy

JANUARY 30, 2024

6 procurement technologies to improve your business Transform analog, manual, and paper-ridden processes with end-to-end digitization and automation to improve security, visibility, and control with these six procurement technologies. Contract and compliance management. Purchase orders. Invoice approvals.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Attijariwafa Bank has successfully implemented a source-to-contract solution with the JAGGAER ONE platform. The procurement team consists of 40 buyers, around half of them based in the bank’s Casablanca headquarters. Having visibility over spend data has provided a basis for achieving savings.

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Procurement Software

MARCH 5, 2024

Raindrop has also been recognised as a cloud-enabled procurement focused Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) application. It promises to assist with improving buyer and supplier collaboration. It aims to achieve this by creating a singular, efficient network that connects enterprises and surplus buyers with equipment vendors.

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Pipefy

JUNE 14, 2023

Visibility into procurement categories and effective management of categories fosters benefits like greater risk management and less costly supplier redundancies. Spend analytics creates the visibility procurement teams need to complete a spend analysis. ignoring the importance of data quality, 2. focusing solely on cost reduction, 3.

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Pipefy

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

This process grants transparency and visibility into purchase orders and approvals to a sometimes surprising degree. These tools are classified according to the procurement functions they perform, including contract management, informing, ordering, sourcing, and tendering. What are e-procurement tools?

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Procurement Software

MAY 14, 2024

Enhanced Efficiency and Visibility: By adopting process orchestration tools and platforms, businesses gain real-time insights and control over their procurement activities, facilitating quicker decision-making and improved risk management. Role of Technology Technology plays a pivotal role in refining the procurement intake process.

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Procurement Software

JULY 4, 2023

Ultimately, digital procurement enables organisations to enhance the overall procurement experience, as well as increase efficiencies and transform their end-to-end procurement function. RPA will over time take away a lot of the need for operational buyers and purchase admin roles. What is procurement tech?

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Procurement Software

MARCH 7, 2023

Improvements to end-to-end supply chain efficiency. Contracts are usually not covered by S2P technology platforms. Contracts are usually not covered by S2P technology platforms. We’ll cover what’s the difference between S2P and S2C (Source-to-Contract) in an upcoming article. What is the difference P2P and S2P?

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