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. Clearly documenting obligations of each party is essential.

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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 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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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The process creates efficiencies across all spend categories, minimizes supply chain risks through improved supplier selection and awards, while giving visibility into pricing and forecasting. That means negotiating a medium to long-term contract to support security of supply and having a contingency plan in place in the event of problems.

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ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

Similar to how CRM manages everything around the customer, an S2P platform manages everything around the supplier. ​ The Source-to-Pay process itself is quite broad but it covers most if not all the aspects of a procurement organization, at least from a process and technology perspective.

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ivalua

JUNE 11, 2019

At some point, there was a need for this, a solicitation process to select a supplier, a competitive bidding process, a contract negotiation, transactions and so on. Reduction of Risk: Enable better risk and compliance management by enabling proactive mitigation and real-time monitoring with vendors.

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World of Procurement blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

Over Christmas, I started thinking about the top Contract Management trends for 2022. One general observation I have of us Contract Managers is that there is a fantastic opportunity to become more closely aligned with our Legal colleagues. Additionally, there is a significant focus on certainty within contracts.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

For example, blockchain-backed contract management, when combined with automation, creates efficiencies and offers a high level of security. In addition to enhanced decision-making, flexibility and visibility, analytics engines paired with AI can help manage supplier risk. Try out cognitive intelligence free for 30-days.

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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. Negotiation with suppliers implies direct human interactions: face-to-face, by phone or email etc. How Has Strategic Sourcing Evolved?

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Jaggaer

JULY 7, 2020

Over time, this engagement has expanded globally and is still focused on one of the most testing categories of sourcing and contract management within procurement: transport and logistics. In 2019 the company decided to embark on a project to implement global dashboards for sourcing and contracting events.

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 20, 2024

A dedicated CLM platform provides the automation, control, and analytics procurement teams need to maximize the value of contracts while minimizing risk. With the right CLM solution in place, procurement can achieve end-to-end visibility into the contracting process, reduce cycle times, and eliminate inefficient manual tasks.

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Jaggaer

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Or alternatively, as senior managers we only see the end results of procurement as figures on a spreadsheet or a financial statement, with little awareness of how they are arrived at and how they can be improved. To understand whats really going on we need, first, to step back and get a holistic view of the end-to-end process.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 4, 2024

And while enterprise resource planning (ERP) integrates and manages all aspects of a business, BPM focuses on its individual functions—optimizing the organization’s existing, repeatable processes end-to-end. BPM can also provide real-time visibility into claim status and performance metrics.

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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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Pipefy

JANUARY 30, 2024

From procure-to-pay software to spend management and analysis tools, procurement technologies are disrupting the status quo and bringing efficiency to teams like never before. Contract management Contract management tools help control fragmented data and workflows that make it difficult or impossible to manage contracts.

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Empowering CPO

JULY 16, 2023

This is where managed procurement services come into the picture. Managed procurement services can be defined as an external service that helps streamline a company’s acquisition processes, offering an end-to-end solution that takes into account all aspects of procurement – from sourcing to payment.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Tasks such as vendor selection criteria, contract management and compliance initiatives should be clearly defined. Additional procurement software includes spend analytics tools and supplier relationship management (SRM) software. This is a good time to review current processes and adjust them to suit the new approach.

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Procurement Software

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The company offers a simple and competitively priced contract management solution. These centralise all your company’s contract documents, giving you a top-down view of the entire contract portfolio. Workfellow offers a next-generation end-to-end visibility into workflows, systems usage, and tasks.

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The Procuretech Podcast

APRIL 12, 2022

He tells the story of how in his short time dealing with procurement professionals, he often found himself offering the same advice and amending the exact same clauses each time he was asked to get involved in a contract negotiation process. Dealing with supplier generated (third party paper) contracts.

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Procurement Software

JULY 18, 2023

We also touch on a few more niche solutions for SMEs, for example project management software, supplier intake, accounts payable automation, “build-a-bot”, as well as a negotiation planning guidance tool. It gives you full visibility of your spend data, all in one place. Contract Management 9.

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Procurement Software

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Feature highlights include: Easy to use five-category classifications, best in class enterprise taxonomy, the ability to gain insights from trend analysis and organisation behaviours, 100% spend visibility and proprietary machine learning algorithms designed to deliver accuracy. M&A) The solution gives you full spend visibility.

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 10, 2024

Monitoring supplier relationships : AI can track supplier performance metrics, analyze contract terms for risks, and identify opportunities to improve supplier relationships. Enhancing contract management : Natural language processing enables AI to extract key data from contracts.

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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. Blockchain can be used across various industries, including both finance and end-to-end supply chain management.

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Procurement Software

MARCH 5, 2024

Lavenir AI LavenirAI is a conversational AI-powered procurement negotiation training platform. Designed by procurement specialists, for procurement professionals, LavenirAI was developed to raise the bar for procurement negotiation. FRDM FRDM is a software company specialising in supply chain risk management.

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Pipefy

JUNE 15, 2023

This end-to-end system’s built-in collaboration and data analysis tools eliminate process friction commonly created by manual or disjointed workflows. This dashboard shows progress bars for each task, resulting in 360-degree visibility over procurement that organizations can use to identify bottlenecks that are impacting efficiency.

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Empowering CPO

JULY 16, 2023

This is where managed procurement services come into the picture. Managed procurement services can be defined as an external service that helps streamline a company’s acquisition processes, offering an end-to-end solution that takes into account all aspects of procurement – from sourcing to payment.

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Empowering CPO

JUNE 25, 2023

It’s a strategic function that requires careful planning, selection, and negotiation to ensure that businesses get the best value for their money. It’s a delicate balancing act, where businesses must juggle quality, cost, supplier relationships, and risk management, all while keeping an eye on their bottom line.

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Pipefy

JANUARY 5, 2023

Other motives for automating procurement include solving for high error rates, reducing manual work, and adding visibility to the different workflows and processes that fall under the procurement process umbrella. Enhancing visibility and control. Enhancing visibility and control. Managing procurement is a complex undertaking.

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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

JANUARY 23, 2024

If you’re a consultancy, an investor, or a solution provider and need to do deeper analysis of the market, we also offer subscriptions to our back end database , with all data points searchable. Inhubber Inhubber is a contract management and digital signature platform powered by blockchain and AI.

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Pipefy

JANUARY 31, 2023

This complexity creates headaches for procurement teams and fuels an error-prone and resource-consuming approval loop that obstructs visibility into the approval process. The report also found that of the top five biggest day-to-day pain points experienced by buyers, 29% reported complex approval processes.

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