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Creactives: Vendor Analysis (Part 2) — Deep solution overview, SWOT, Creactives competitors, summary - [PRO Content]
April 6, 2021 | Michael Lamoureux
In this Spend Matters PRO article, we continue our introduction to Creactives, one of the most interesting players to hit the global procurement solutions scene in almost a decade. Unlike traditional solutions for material master data management (MMDM), Creactives uses advanced AI-based knowledge engineering technology for classification. And, unlike the majority of spend analytics technology…
Robobai: Vendor Analysis (Part 2) — Product deep dive, SWOT, Robobai competitors, analyst summary - [PRO Content]
March 17, 2021 | Michael Lamoureux
Spend Matters’ two-part PRO Vendor Analysis will shed light on Robobai’s capabilities and competitors. Part 2 will provide a deep dive on solution features, a company SWOT and an analyst summary. It’s not easy to KYS, or know your supplier. It’s more than a conversation, a historical transaction analysis, a few questionnaires or D&B financial…
Robobai: Vendor Analysis (Part 1) — Solution overview, strengths/weaknesses, tech selection tips - [PRO Content]
March 16, 2021 | Michael Lamoureux
Robobai, a relatively new entrant to the source-to-contract arena, realized the best way to do supplier risk, or know-your-supplier (KYS), is to build an analytics-backed supplier management platform that could track and analyze spend, performance, commitments (contracts) and risk. So the Australian firm built an analytics-backed KYS platform that could also support the creation and…
What the Jason Alexander hoodie ad teaches us about the past and future of spend analytics capabilities - [PRO Content]
February 10, 2021 | Michael Lamoureux and Jason Busch
One of our favorite Super Bowl advertisements this year was the Jason Alexander “hoodie” — a totally hilarious plug for Tide. Any true “Seinfeld” fan knows that you’re usually laughing at George Costanza, not with him, but somehow you feel sorry for the guy, at least part of the time, which is precisely why this…
Accounts Payables Automation update (Part 3) — Providers in the market and SolutionMap insights - [PRO Content]
January 25, 2021 | Xavier Olivera
For Spend Matters’ re-evaluation of the AP automation sector’s technology developments, Part 3 of this PRO analyst series will focus on the providers in the market — discussing their value propositions, showing charts of their functionality in key areas and linking to more of our Vendor Analysis reviews and other coverage of the vendors. Part…
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…

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'Sell me this procure-to-pay solution' : Thierry Jaffry said : I truly agree with Mark's analysis. And I would add a couple of things from the SI point of view: mo...