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

Software procurement is complex, and buyers are often ill informed about considerations specific to buying SaaS, such as contract terms, licenses, pricing and technical expertise. SaaS management and buying tools such, as Spendflo, address the lack of buyer visibility. Read more. )

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

The Ivalua suite will enable Viparis to: Accelerate the digitization of Procurement operations, Control visibility of the Procurement activity with both internal customers and suppliers, Facilitate tracking of performance and manage supplier risk with a centralized, unified tool.

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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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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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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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Supply Chain Opz

MARCH 6, 2015

The biggest implication of this new imposition on procurement process is that now procurement managers have to deliver suppliers that are cost conscious and timely in their operations but at the same time can adapt to the changing demands of end customers. Skill gaps will continue to be a challenge for companies.

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Procurement Tactics

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Most of this software is designed to provide visibility into corporate spending, create ways in making the contract process efficient, and lower administrative costs. As an end-to-end contract management platform, it offers templates and a template editor to create contracts. Juro offers a free plan with great functionality.

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ivalua

APRIL 6, 2021

Contract lifecycle management is the management of a company’s end-to-end contracting process with its suppliers, customers and other third parties. If you think about it, a contract is the only document that formalizes a relationship between a buyer and a supplier. An Overview of Contract Lifecycle Management.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

For example, when a customer orders an item through your online shop, you must ship it to the buyer within a specific time frame to avoid cancellation. Enable End-To-End Order Visibility. Order visibility is tracking the number of items inside a warehouse. Maximize Storage Capacity.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 24, 2024

We believe these companies deserve greater visibility, especially in a market which is increasingly consolidating and diluting buyer choices. To potential buyers — COVALYZE can save category managers and buyers significant time and money, as it takes away many of the manual processes historically required of these roles.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MARCH 16, 2020

A surge in demand to ship the flood of crude oil unleashed by Saudi Arabia and its OPEC peers is sending freight rates surging and forcing buyers to seek out space on smaller tankers after the largest ones have been booked out, shipping sources said. The best illustration prompted by the current situation comes from a Reuters report today.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

It’s a space where there’s communication and visibility… And if we can really align everyone, from the supplier to the buyer, it could unlock great efficiencies throughout the entire supply chain.” 30.07] Why adopting a single operating platform for end-to-end logistics is crucial for risk identification and mitigation. .”

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Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

To potential buyers — Everstream Analytics is able to monitor and map n-tier suppliers, providing an in-depth look into its customers' risk. The company achieves this by using an advanced Al paired with real-world, in-the-moment perspectives from a proprietary network of partners that deliver insights down to the bill of material level.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The answer to the question posed above is that the public sector’s stakeholders – the general public and/or their constituents – have a different ‘right to service’ expectation than distributed buyers or budget owners in a corporation. Jurisdictions and agencies have unique needs that must be met by the technology they implement. .

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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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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Purchase orders would be written out by hand and mailed or faxed to suppliers with buyers calling suppliers on the phone to tell them about their needs as well as the inevitable changes in demand. Visibility to where goods were was largely limited to updates that came over the phone.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Value chain : Transparency in operations and across multiple supplier tiers gives you visibility into potential gaps in supply continuity. Information sharing through supplier collaboration supports effective inventory management and enables you to plan proactively while identifying risks such as shortages and delays.

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ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

S2P is the end-to-end process that encompasses all the activities between an organization and its suppliers. The contracts govern the relationship between the buyer and supplier, an essential process to inform Procure-to-Pay. Also included: supplier improvement plans, innovation plans and overall supplier collaboration.

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Una

AUGUST 30, 2022

Doing so will enhance visibility, slash maverick purchasing , enable spend analytics, improve demand forecasting, and enable accurate tracking of procurement KPIs (ultimately helping you prove the value of procurement to the wider business). Subscribe to Unaversity. IT Procurement | Stranger Things Keeping IT Buyers Up at Night.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

JUNE 5, 2023

Logward is a logistics technology company offering supply chain management as a service, delivering end-to-end visibility as well as control over freight shipments through cloud based solutions. 31.33] An overview of Logward’s Transport Solutions, and the visibility it provides. Check out our other podcasts HERE.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

MAY 14, 2023

Flexport is building the platform for global logistics, empowering buyers, sellers and their logistics partners with the technology and services to grow and innovate. The last 6 months… has shown two things: that our infrastructure in the US is over-taxed, and that visibility is not where it needs to be, when that system is taxed.”

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

AUGUST 12, 2024

Altana is the world’s first Value Chain Management System – a unified, comprehensive approach that goes far beyond supply chain risk management, with unprecedented visibility, contextualized netrt across business areas, and a collaborative network with end-to-end workflows to get jobs done. 52.14] The future for Altana. “An

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Spend Matters

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

We believe these companies deserve greater visibility, especially in a market which is increasingly consolidating and diluting buyer choices. Sudhir Bhojwani: “We aim to be the procurement front-end for companies. ORO is purpose-built to automate end-to-end workflows so they can do just that.

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The Network Effect

JANUARY 8, 2015

With orchestration, an LSP is afforded the visibility, monitoring, and operational insights required to ensure client service levels are maintained no matter who is performing actual supply chain tasks. Now, there’s been a lot of talk in recent years about “orchestration” to the point that the concept has become over-hyped.

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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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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 26, 2023

We believe these companies deserve greater visibility, especially in a market which is increasingly consolidating and diluting buyer choices. So, if you automate this end-to-end process, and in each step of the process you have a 20% chance of misinterpretation, at the end it’s either approximately right or precisely wrong.”

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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. AP teams need to embrace digital data and think end-to-end. What is Invoice-to-Pay? How does Invoice to Pay Work?

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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. Streamlining the onboarding process through digitalization can therefore deliver huge benefits.

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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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IBM Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

Marketing use cases with IBM Watson Assistant IBM Watson Assistant is an enterprise conversational AI platform designed to build intelligent chatbots or virtual agents that can automate buyer processes, promote lead generation, and drive e-commerce with personalized customer self-service support.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

To mitigate the issues of the end-to-end supply chain and cope with customer expectations, organizations are constantly focusing on reducing the delivery lead time. Apart from some highly advanced e-commerce warehouse management systems, most of the eCommerce end-to-end supply chain is driven by humans.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

End to End Supply Chain Visibility and the Internet of Things (IoT). The Supply Chain is central to having the complete visibility required to run any company. Raw Materials, Buyers, Planners, Product Data Management, Commodity Managers, Freight and Logistics, Distributors, Suppliers, Systems (eg.

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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. It is our goal to create end-to-end intelligent and autonomous execution across the procurement process through our patented technology. Today please get to know dSilo.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

AUGUST 21, 2023

With over $8 billion of product sourced, nearly 1 million RFQ’s and over 50,000 buyers and suppliers involved, they are the world’s largest manufacturing marketplace. We invested almost $100 million in fully digitizing our end-to-end operations and building software.”

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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. Getting strategic about supplier collaboration positions you to succeed today and overcome tomorrow’s unexpected challenges.

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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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