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LevaData: Vendor Analysis, 2020 update (Part 2) — Detailed Module Overview, SWOT, LevaData Competitors, Summary - [PRO Content]
December 22, 2020 | Michael Lamoureux and Eric Hiller
In Part 1 we re-introduced you to LevaData, a unique provider in the direct sourcing and procurement space that brings a distinctive mashup of analytics, should-cost modeling, constraint-based optimization, and risk insight to direct (bill-of-material based) sourcing — particularly in the electronics supply chain. It was, and still is, one of a small set of…
LevaData: Vendor Analysis, 2020 update (Part 1) — Direct Materials Solution Overview, Strengths/Weaknesses, Tech Selection Tips - [PRO Content]
December 21, 2020 | Michael Lamoureux and Eric Hiller
When Spend Matters covered LevaData three years ago, we noted that outside of core ERP and supply chain planning systems, the technology market for direct materials procurement and sourcing was almost too nascent to even be considered fragmented. And, we're sorry to say that not much has changed. The existing players are more mature, but…
Companies need to adopt spend agility to survive and thrive post-COVID
December 17, 2020 | Guest Contributor
Spend Matters welcomes this guest post on spend agility from Nikesh Parekh, the CEO of Suplari, a specialist in spend analytics and supplier management. Companies need to adopt spend agility — the ability for enterprises to rapidly assess, predict and change spend, investments and operations strategy in real time. That ability helps you create value…
Supply chain workplace safety improvements — results by region
December 1, 2020 | Nancy Clinton
Supply chain risk contractor management firm, Avetta, has examined 10 years’ worth of hundreds of thousands of safety data points from within its supply chain risk management platform of 87000 suppliers, and has produced a global report on safety incidents. It finds, using its own data as a benchmark, that overall firms using cloud-based supply…
SolutionMap Fall 2020 new vendors (Part 3) — Symfact, AvidXchange, ProcurePort, SourceDay, graphiteConnect
November 24, 2020 | Sally Ehrmann and JP Morris
On Oct. 1, Spend Matters launched the Fall 2020 update of its free-to-use SolutionMap, which evaluates procurement technology solutions on their technical capabilities and how customers rate them. Twelve new vendors participated in the latest release, which has grown to evaluate 77 providers. Read our SolutionMap Fall 2020 launch post for more details, like how…
Ignite Procurement: Vendor Analysis (Part 2) — Detailed Look at Modules, SWOT, Ignite competitors, Commentary - [PRO Content]
November 19, 2020 | Michael Lamoureux
With the rise of Ignite Procurement, it seems like the Nordics are making a play to be one of the major hot spots in the increasingly global spend analysis marketplace. Finland gave us Sievo, Sweden gave us Effso Spendency, Denmark gave us Scanmarket (which started as an e-sourcing provider and which recently built a full-featured…
Ignite Procurement: Vendor Analysis (Part 1) — Solution Overview, Strengths/Weaknesses, Tech Selection Tips - [PRO Content]
November 18, 2020 | Michael Lamoureux
Ignite Procurement is an analytics start-up that we’ll examine in a two-part Spend Matters PRO Vendor Analysis, and it’s part of our deep dives on various analytics vendors this year. Analytics is becoming more necessary for procurement organizations to get a handle on their spend. More and more organizations are realizing this, but few organizations…
AnyData, making spend analytics accessible by anyone! (Or, ‘The mid-market analytics quandary’) - [PRO Content]
November 10, 2020 | Michael Lamoureux
Analytics is front and center in the minds of every executive and practice leader these days, especially since the need for efficiency and insight is again approaching a peak as businesses of all sizes struggle with the additional pressures brought on directly and indirectly by the global coronavirus pandemic. However, many organizations are still hesitant…
SolutionMap Fall 2020 new vendors (Part 2) — Corcentric Payables (COR360), Uppler and Medius (Wax Digital)
November 3, 2020 | Sally Ehrmann
On Oct. 1, Spend Matters launched the Fall 2020 update of its free-to-use SolutionMap, which evaluates procurement technology solutions on their technical capabilities and how customers rate them. Twelve new vendors participated in the latest release, which has grown to evaluate 77 providers. Read our SolutionMap Fall 2020 launch post for more details, like how…
SolutionMap Fall 2020 new vendors (Part 1) — Ignite Procurement, Kodiak Rating and Vortal
October 26, 2020 | Nancy Clinton
On Oct. 1, Spend Matters launched the Fall 2020 update of its free-to-use SolutionMap, which evaluates procurement technology solutions on their technical capabilities and how customers rate them. Twelve new vendors participated in the latest release, which has grown to evaluate 77 providers. Read our SolutionMap Fall 2020 launch post for more details, like how…
Fall 2020 Spend Analytics: Provider Scoring Summary
October 1, 2020 | Spend Matters Team
This SolutionMap analyzes a select group of spend analytics providers. It includes coverage of spend analytics capabilities that encourages subscribers to “peel the onion” beyond cleansing, classification, enrichment and reporting capabilities alone. It is part of our Fall 2020 SolutionMap report series, also featuring sourcing, supplier management contract management, e-procurement and invoice-to-pay providers.
Release note, SolutionMap Fall 2020: Sourcing, Spend and Procurement Analytics, Supplier Relationship Management & Risk, Contract Lifecycle Management and Strategic Procurement Technology (SPT) Suites
October 1, 2020 | Spend Matters Analyst Team
This Spend Matters SolutionMap Insider release note provides insight into the SolutionMap Fall 2020 release for the following five categories: Sourcing, Spend and Procurement Analytics, Supplier Relationship Management & Risk, Contract Lifecycle Management, and Strategic Procurement Technologies Suite. The note reviews the process we follow and highlights what has changed since the last release. This…

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