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The AI Advantage: Unlocking New Value for Procurement Teams

World of Procurement blog

The Promise of AI for Procurement Teams Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform and revolutionize procurement processes. One of the biggest challenges in procurement has been gaining visibility into exactly where money is being spent across the organization.

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Zivio: Vendor Analysis, 2023 Update — Services sourcing solution overview, competitors, tech selection tips, analyst summary

Spend Matters

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.

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4 smart technologies modernizing sourcing strategy

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Learn more about IBM Food Trust Advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) Analytics engines and their “big data brains” provide real-time sourcing flexibility and visibility to enhance order management and inventory systems. How is sourcing strategy different than procurement strategy?

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10 CLM Platforms to Take Your Procurement Game to the Next Level

World of Procurement blog

Contract lifecycle management (CLM) software has become an invaluable tool for procurement teams looking to optimize their contracting processes. A dedicated CLM platform provides the automation, control, and analytics procurement teams need to maximize the value of contracts while minimizing risk.

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Intake and Orchestration in procurement: How do the solution providers define its role? – Focal Point

Spend Matters

Our first practitioner-focused viewpoint came from Sören Petsch, head of procurement at end-to-end e-commerce solution Rithum — How intake cuts to the point. Instead of suggesting a ‘start-from-scratch’ strategy, it acts as a bridge, bringing together data from disparate procurement tools for clearer insights.

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Making the business case for Intake and Orchestration tools

Spend Matters

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. So if it’s Finance, I talk about budget, both budget visibility and spend visibility.

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Leveling up from tools to systems: A holistic approach to third-party management

Spend Matters

From siloed tools to unified process orchestration Isolated tools that originally helped companies organize and track operations gave way to automated procurement systems, which are now beginning to be nudged out by specialized third-party platforms that create a unified experience for internal and external stakeholders.