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Customize your internal payment processing needs with ‘Pay by Invoice’ at Amazon Business - [Sponsored Article]
June 18, 2019 | Yogita Mathur, Amazon Business
No two businesses are alike. Each one has their own goals, internal policies and procedures. At Amazon Business we obsess around the differences in our customers, and how we can best support their internal procurement, reconciliation and payment teams to streamline their procure-to-pay processes. To do this, Amazon Business is helping innovate on behalf of…
Beginner’s Guide to the Procurement Cycle
May 3, 2019 | Guest Contributor
Spend Matters welcomes this guest post from Public Spend Forum, a sister site of ours. Procurement isn’t a household topic, but it is a ubiquitous process in the business world, nonetheless. Let’s break down the concept to make it more accessible. At first glance, procurement might seem daunting to the unfamiliar; the behind-the-scenes process can…
CRO-to-CRO Video Series: Episode 3 Peels Back the Digital Procurement Platform Onion
April 29, 2019 | Taras Berezowsky and Carina Kuhl
So you’ve decided your procurement function needs to “go digital” with its software solution needs. But where to begin? How do you buy this stuff? “You start with having your business challenges in mind,” says Michel Janssen, one half of the "CRO-to-CRO" discussion pairing we've been spotlighting with a series of videos over the last…
Why Well-Run Hospitals Need Tailored Technology to Care for Patients, Business
April 22, 2019 | JP Morris
As one of the nation’s largest nonprofit health systems, BJC HealthCare needs to provide consistent, high-quality patient care across all of its hospitals while maintaining operational efficiency. When the St. Louis, Missouri-based healthcare provider began its search to upgrade how it supplies its facilities, it found the healthcare marketplace provider Prodigo Solutions, which knows what hospitals…
Coupa to Buy Exari, Boosting CLM in Its Business Spend Management Suite
April 16, 2019 | JP Morris
Coupa Software is buying Exari to gain its best-of-breed contract lifecycle management (CLM) offering, Coupa announced Tuesday morning. Coupa, a San Francisco-area suite provider of business spend management (BSM), said in a news release that the transaction for Boston-based Exari is expected to close in its second fiscal quarter. In a disclosure to investors, it…
ISM 2019 Houston Conference: Highlights and Musings (Part 1)
April 16, 2019 | Pierre Mitchell
A small Spend Matters team descended on ISM 2019 conference this year in Houston (next year is in Boston, where I live!) and I wanted to share some thoughts on the event and a few of the great sessions there.
Live ISM 2019 Dispatch: Building a High-Performance Procurement Team Focused on Value Creation
April 10, 2019 | Carina Kuhl
ISM 2019 featured some excellent procurement advancement and transformation case studies, such as “The Challenges of a New CPO” covered in an earlier dispatch. They are tales of aligning people, process and technology to create business value. Since getting the people side right was consistently mentioned as the most crucial — and fickle — element…
7 Half-Truths Purchase-to-Pay Providers Are Telling You - [Sponsored Article]
April 9, 2019 | Jeff Meredith, Basware
I spend a lot of time in product demos, discussing product features and functionality with the analyst community, digging into technology, and harassing our pre-sales team. I’ve gained a wealth of knowledge about purchase-to-pay software – more than you probably want – but what I’ve also learned is that there are some slippery providers out there. They…
For Procurement Problems in Government Contracting, Try These Outsider Tips
April 5, 2019 | JP Morris
Government contracting is known as a detail-oriented process that relies on plans and procedures, but Public Spend Forum is offering tips to help companies with procurement problems so they can improve the process where they can. And that involves changing your mindset, being flexible and ensuring that you have talented people. The tips come from…
The Killer Procurement Technology Application: Stupid Simple
April 1, 2019 | Jason Busch
Like a lot of my colleagues on the analyst team at Azul Partners, I’m prone to overcomplicate things rather than take the easy way out. Big, hairy, audacious concepts (and technologies) fascinate me far more than what I’ve come to call the “Stupid Simple” ones. But it is this latter group that has far greater…
Q1 2019 SolutionMap Source-to-Pay Release Notes
March 26, 2019 | Spend Matters Analyst Team
This Spend Matters SolutionMap Insider release note provides insight into the Q1 2019 SolutionMap release for Source-to-Pay, reviewing the process that we followed for this quarter’s release. The providers in the Q1 2019 Source-to-Pay SolutionMap include Coupa, Determine, GEP, Ivalua, SAP Ariba, SynerTrade and Zycus. All of these providers were required to participate in SolutionMap…
Govtech in 2019: These 8 Public Sector Start-ups Already Making a Difference
January 25, 2019 | JP Morris
Public Spend Forum (PSF), one of our sister sites, has taken a look at civic tech companies whose solutions “hold great promise for improving the way we live, work and engage within the public sector.” These emerging government technology contractors are featured in this PSF outlook for the year ahead, and the solutions focus on…

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