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Payable Strategies for the Long Tail Suppliers — Stage 4: Selection Process and Key Issues to Address - [PRO Content]
March 29, 2021 | David Gustin
If the mandate from your C-suite is to find a solution to pay all suppliers early, rest assured that this process comes with a range of options. But before you begin to evaluate options, every company has a baseline of existing solutions, technology, processes and procurement agreements that form the basis of the evaluation. In…
Payable Strategies for the Long Tail Suppliers — Stage 5: Getting to a Decision - [PRO Content]
March 29, 2021 | David Gustin
Now it is time to get to a payable strategies decision. In this five-part Spend Matters PRO series, we have provided a way to help companies address how to approach paying suppliers early given a company’s current baseline and legacy situations. The mandate was simple. The mandate was clear. Find a way to offer ALL…
Payable Strategies for the Long Tail Suppliers — Stage 3: Addressing Operational Challenges Early - [PRO Content]
March 23, 2021 | David Gustin
In this Spend Matters PRO series, you have been tasked with a mandate from your CFO to find a way to offer early pay finance to ALL suppliers and create a “win/win” with your supply base. The previous two parts of the series looked at how to assess your current situation, the spend funnel and…
Payable Strategies for the Long Tail Suppliers — Stage 2: Understanding Addressable Spend & Early Pay Options - [PRO Content]
March 22, 2021 | David Gustin
In this five-part Spend Matters PRO series, we will explore how businesses can approach paying suppliers early given the business’s current baseline and legacy situation. Today, we focus on understanding addressable spend and the various early pay options. For this series, here are the five stages for tackling your payables strategy: Stage 1 — Assessing Your…
Payable Strategies for the Long Tail Suppliers — Stage 1: Assessing Your Current Situation - [PRO Content]
March 18, 2021 | David Gustin
In this five-part Spend Matters PRO series, we will help companies address how to approach paying suppliers early given your current baseline and legacy situation. If you’ve been tasked with a mandate from your CFO to find a way to offer early pay finance to all (or a vast majority) of suppliers and create a…
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…
An update on Mastercard Track Business Payment Service & B2B Payments - [PRO Content]
December 10, 2020 | David Gustin
“We see every single invoice rendered by a supplier sent to a buyer as an opportunity for a better outcome for both buyer and supplier. That is a foundational principle.” — James Anderson, Executive Vice President, Commercial Products, Mastercard When I first heard of Mastercard Track Business Payment Service a few years ago, it caught…
Workday Strategic Sourcing (formerly Scout RFP): Vendor Analysis, Part 2 — Deep Dive on 7 Modules, SWOT, Competitors in E-Sourcing, Commentary - [PRO Content]
December 7, 2020 | Magnus Bergfors
Scout RFP entered an already crowded e-sourcing market back in 2013 with a singular focus on ease-of-use, not unlike that of Coupa in the P2P space some years earlier. This focus, combined with rapid development of additional features and adjacent capabilities in project management, supplier management and contract management led to Scout RFP being acquired…
TransferMate — Solution overview of cross-border payments capabilities - [PRO Content]
September 30, 2020 | David Gustin
This Spend Matters PRO brief looks at the TransferMate solution and how the payments provider handles cross-border transactions. More and more, companies are engaged on a cross-border basis as marketplace sellers — to pay freelancers, to handle global SaaS subscriptions or just to make payments not only to vendors but in support of contractors, one-off…
Beyond Spend Influence: Enabling Procurement’s Emerging Roles in Business Transformation (Part 3) — Digitally Enabled Engagement, Outcomes, Demand and Spend - [PRO Content]
September 22, 2020 | Pierre Mitchell
In the first installment of this Spend Matters PRO series, we kicked off our analysis of how progressive organizations are influencing spend and stakeholders at a deeper level beyond traditional sourcing influence. In Part 2, we discussed how progressive procurement organizations were improving their influence through coherent communication and alignment of procurement “services” to various…
Beyond Spend Influence: Enabling Procurement’s Emerging Roles in Business Transformation (Part 2) — Empathy, Alignment, Mission, Brand and Procurement Service Delivery - [PRO Content]
September 3, 2020 | Pierre Mitchell
In the first installment of this Spend Matters PRO series, we kicked off our analysis of how progressive organizations are influencing spend and stakeholders at a deeper level beyond traditional sourcing influence. In this next edition, we’ll dive into some strategies for deeper and more meaningful engagement with stakeholders, and some examples from some progressive…
Taulia: Vendor Analysis (Part 2) — Strengths and Weaknesses - [PRO Content]
May 27, 2020 | Xavier Olivera
Taulia is known for its working capital solutions, which include both of its early payment programs: self-funded and funded by third parties. But as mentioned in Part 1 of this Spend Matters PRO Vendor Analysis, Taulia’s platform also offers e-invoicing and AP automation solutions. In Part 2, we'll give our insight into the strengths and…

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A History of Purchasing: From “Materials Men” to Today (Part 2: 1950s - Present) : Diana said : Purchasing and Supply Chain Management are impacting company health supply, risk control, inventory,...

Finding Procurement’s Place in the Organizational Hierarchy : Macs Nsirim said : i honestly agree with this write up. i currently work as a procurement officer in an organization ...

Afternoon Coffee: PRO Unlimited launches DaaS solution; Covid pandemic highlights the need for US manufacturing; Chick-fil-A supply chain woes : John Peyton said : Thank you. Sounds like there’s more horsepower behind it than I thought then. Interesting....

Afternoon Coffee: PRO Unlimited launches DaaS solution; Covid pandemic highlights the need for US manufacturing; Chick-fil-A supply chain woes : JP Morris said : Hi John, Spend Matters asked PRO Unlimited about this, and it said its latest data-as-a-service pla...

Afternoon Coffee: PRO Unlimited launches DaaS solution; Covid pandemic highlights the need for US manufacturing; Chick-fil-A supply chain woes : John Peyton said : I’ve never used Pro Unlimited but other similar providers in their space who I have used provided my...