Procurement Insights

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Why is seeing a demo of a platform important? If all the buttons work as expected and light A goes on when you use switch A instead of light B , the demo is technically considered a success because the tech is doing what the solution provider said it would. The answer would seem obvious – but it isn’t.

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Procurement Insights

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Many vendors are beginning to recognize this and ask us for our input to improve their presentations, offers, and demos. . – To make a decision and defend it to top management, we as procurement professionals need clear, compelling evidence of value. – I also recommend using an Agile Procurement Approach for selecting suppliers.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The post Strategic Payments On-Demand Demo appeared first on Ivalua.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The post Source-to-Pay (S2P) Demo appeared first on Ivalua.

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Procurement Insights

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The following is a comment shared by Duncan Jones about Wednesday’s post Why Is It So Hard To See An Actual Demo Of A ProcureTech Solution? I still have more homework to do regarding this last point – including seeing the demo. However, I am comfortable with their foundation and would like to share this excerpt with you.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Demo Breakout. Watch this on-demand demo to learn how Ivalua’s Supplier Management solution offers: A simple and effective supplier registration and on-boarding process. The post AMER 2021 Day 2 Demo 1 appeared first on Ivalua. Effectively Managing Supplier Information, Risk & Performance.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Demo Breakout. The post AMER 2021 Day 2 Demo Two appeared first on Ivalua. Creating Lasting Value Across Your Source-to-Contract Process. The source-to-contract process is where Procurement identifies and creates value for their organization. Join this session to learn more about: Running efficient sourcing projects and RFXs.

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ivalua

JUNE 18, 2020

The post Ivalua Demo Days appeared first on Ivalua.

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Procurement Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

Okay, it’s Saturday, I am on just my second cup of coffee, and I couldn’t resist sharing the following: But Seriously, how many practitioners do a pre-demo discovery call to determine whether seeing a demo is even warranted? The following is the first excerpt from my one-hour video pre-demo interview with Promena.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Demo Breakout. The post AMER 2021 Day 2 Demo Three appeared first on Ivalua. The Benefits of Embedding Accounts Payable within the Source-to-Pay journey. Days payable outstanding (DPO) is one of the key financial measurements used to identify the health of an organization.

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Procurement Insights

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Please let me know what is your objective for the demo. I am not as familiar with Yantracks or Flexis – Network One; however, they did promise a demo but never got back to me or, in fact, other analysts. Free insight and advice – I hope to see a demo soon. I want to learn more. Solution Provider: @Jon W.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The post Supplier Management Demo appeared first on Ivalua.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The post Direct Materials Supply Chain Collaboration Demo appeared first on Ivalua.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The post Source-to-Contract (S2C) Demo appeared first on Ivalua.

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Procurement Insights

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The critical elements of my assessment include the solution providers’ approach to demos. I am dividing the frontend functional solutions from the AI operating system providers – the two categories of solution providers emerging after the 2025 shake-up. AdaptOne is one of the five.

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Procurement Insights

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

” – Procurement Insights An Example of A Frontend Functional Solution Provider Last month, I posted the article Globality Demo > The Road to the ProcureTech Cup: Episode 25-06 , where I provided a fair assessment. The utilization of AI isn’t mentioned until later in the demo.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Do you know why everyone hates technology solution product demos? The Collaborator recently asked members of the UltraShipTMS product demo delivery team about how they’ve driven successful product demos for their Transportation Management System and related logistics software solutions. “So

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Procurement Insights

OCTOBER 13, 2024

One example is the recent demo I was asked to see for the Forestreet platform. When I announced at the beginning of the video that I would be recording the demo and explained why, here was the response: “Cool. ” That is all I will write, so let’s go straight to the demo. Yeah, of course.

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Procurement Insights

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Here are a few empirical observations regarding ProcureTech solution providers and AI, GenAI, AgenticAI, and AIAIoh: 90% of solution providers’ demos start with a reference to AI Most – not all, mind you, but most emails I receive have AI somewhere in the headline or subject field.

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Procurement Insights

OCTOBER 27, 2024

NOTE: Substitute the words “stone tools” with “GenAI Demos.” I could nor resist ending the great weekend discussions with the following post. ” 30

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Procurement Insights

OCTOBER 13, 2024

.” – Joel Collin-Demers, LinkedIn Comment (October 12th, 2024) The above admonishment I received from a young procurement colleague for my review of the Globality demo suggesting that I had somehow subjected the provider to public flogging, which would cause other solution providers to go into hiding, caught me off guard.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 9, 2023

Control towers provide a dynamic, graphic visualization of orders, shipments, inventory and assets across the supply chain, for a single, trusted view shared by all parties in real time.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The post Procure to Pay (P2P) Demo appeared first on Ivalua.

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Procurement Insights

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Here we go – tell me what you think: Analyst: The goal of the demos is to generate high level awareness. Not to cover 100% of their functionality nor put them on trial… If you want to get in touch with them afterwards to do a detailed analysis starting with the PT demo as a baseline, I encourage it.

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Procurement Templates

DECEMBER 27, 2022

System Demo- scenarios. Proposed Team CVs. Professional Capabilities & Experience: Comparable Solutions. Professional Capabilities & Experience: Function / Sector. Auditing, Security & Quality Assurance Standards. Cultural Fit. The post Tenders IT System appeared first on Procurement Templates.

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Procurement Insights

AUGUST 1, 2024

Conduct the “Demo Test.” ” Ask for a demo and then ask the person doing the demo how their solution actually and practically addresses YOUR specific challenges, not the general industry challenges. Note: If you can’t arrange a demo or get a PowerPoint presentation in its place, proceed with caution.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Breakout C Demo Key Feature 2. Breakout B Demo Key Feature 1. Breakout A S2C Demo. Customer Keynote #2. Ivalua Keynote. Innovation Showcase. Networking time in Lobby. Networking Time in Lobby. Celebrity Keynote. P2P User Group. Upstream Roadmap.

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Supply Chain Brain

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Shareholders were rattled after it emerged that a video demo of Google’s rival to the Microsoft-backed ChatGPT chatbot contained a flawed response to a question.

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ContractSafe

MAY 5, 2023

Go head-to-head with your colleagues; the first to complete the Contract Management tasks in our demo account wins! (A Stop by Booth #248 to put ContractSafe to the test. To show you just how quick and easy ContractSafe is, we made it a race. A prize, we mean.)

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ivalua

JANUARY 28, 2021

Demo Breakout: Effectively Managing Supplier Information, Risk & Performance. Demo Breakout: Creating Lasting Value Across Your Source-to-Contract Process. Demo Breakout: The benefits of embedding Accounts Payable within the Source-to-Pay journey. Demo Breakout: Creating Lasting Value Across Your Source-to-Contract Process.

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Procurement Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

I saw a terrific demo session yesterday hosted by Joël Collin-Demers and Gabe Perez. By the way, you have to start tuning into the weekly Road to the ProcureTech Cup series which airs every Friday at 12:00 Noon ET. The solution provider – Focal Point, was represented by Matthew Buckingham and Zach Bolt.

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Procurement Insights

JULY 27, 2024

Add to the equation the bit of a shake-up you told me about at (provider name withheld)—by the way, I just saw their demo or PowerPoint because there wasn’t any tech to demo. Crazy that (provider name withheld) still can’t provide a demo. The gap between the earlier AI hype and the promised results is widening.

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Supply Chain Trend

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Join for the discussion, a demo, a poll, a Q&A, some learning and some fun! Only when you think decision back, you can orchestrate the whole data to action process, digitize it and then augment or automate decisions. If you only think data forward, you can’t operationalize decisions at scale. You can sign up here. Hope you can join.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Given the evolving market and the emergence of new technologies, we discover and take demos with new types of provider all the time. Solutions around ESG, risk, intake & orchestration come to mind.

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Procurement Insights

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

EDITOR’S NOTE: Here is a comment regarding yesterday’s post asking why companies aren’t giving demos. Many providers are reluctant to give demos despite multiple requests. If you haven’t already, read that post before reading today’s post. “I love the Jon W. Hansen takes!

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Arkestro

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Thank you for joining us at NASCES in Phoenix Whether you joined us at the Plug and Play Innovation Dinner or stopped by our booth at the event venue, we wanted to share with you some additional assets to help continue the conversation.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Each year, the Spend Matters analysts spend months whittling down the hundreds of procurement solutions they have seen and demoed over the year into these three lists.

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