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The B2B payments universe is exploding — what it means for procurement
September 3, 2020 | Sally Ehrmann
B2B payments are a $1 trillion opportunity. How can procurement professionals best use the vendors and services within the space to help organizations?
Previse: Vendor Analysis — Company Background and Solution Overview - [PRO Content]
April 17, 2020 | David Gustin
Many new models of non-bank lending have emerged over the last few years that rely on funding buyer-approved invoices with third-party money. Some models have generated respectable volume, but they still pale compared with total B2B transactions. The problem is that B2B lending is fuzzy, given how difficult it is to assess risk for all…
Procurement Leaders moves its event to the fall as a coronavirus precaution
March 6, 2020 | Jason Busch
As concerns grow about the coronavirus outbreak, Procurement Leaders decided today to postpone this month’s event in Miami until the fall. The decision, no doubt not an easy one, follows similar changes in plans by a number of technology vendors in the last 72 hours, including Basware, EcoVadis, Ivalua, Oracle and SAP Ariba.
Wait a minute, is Pete Buttigieg a former procurement consultant?!?
December 12, 2019 | Pierre Mitchell
This week, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, disclosed client details from his previous job as a management consultant at McKinsey (the firm obtained permission from these clients to release "Mayor Pete" from his NDAs). One of those clients was insurance provider Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. The 2007 job looked…
20 Questions for E-invoicing and Procurement Network and Platform Selection (Part 2) - [Plus + Content]
October 25, 2019 | Jason Busch
Editor's note: This Spend Matters Plus brief is a refresh of our 2013 series on supplier network selection, which originally ran on Spend Matters PRO. In the first installment of this series, OB10/Tungsten, Ariba/SAP, and GXS: 20 Questions On Supplier Network Selection, we gave some context around the right organizational questions that procurement, accounts payable…
How to Use SolutionMap Buying Personas
September 17, 2019 | Spend Matters Team
The needs of each procurement organization — as well as procurement-solution providers’ organizations — are too nuanced for “one size fits all”-style rankings and recommendations from other industry intelligence firms and experts. That’s why Spend Matters ranks procurement and supply chain software providers through the prism of buying personas. With the Q3 2019 SolutionMap released…
Procurement Leaders is acquired by World 50
July 31, 2019 | JP Morris
Procurement Leaders — an organization known for its executive conferences, membership and research in the procurement sector — has announced its acquisition by World 50, an executive membership organization. Procurement Leaders CEO Nandini Basuthakur, announced the news Wednesday, saying: “We will continue to offer our unique suite of insights, applications and connections that accelerate global…
Coupa expands AWS relationship, beefs up its business spend management
June 25, 2019 | JP Morris
Coupa made two announcements Tuesday morning: It’s expanding its relationship with Amazon Web Services to help enterprises with technology spend, and it bolstered its business spend management (BSM) with several new developments.
Where’s the Beef? A Lesson for Sourcing, Procurement
June 21, 2019 | Michael Lamoureux
This post asking “Where’s the Beef?” isn’t about the beef supply chain, or the purity of the beef that you source, but yet another post about the pitch. We’re latching onto Wendy’s classic catchphrase because its message is easy to remember and one that you should never, ever forget! Especially when you are being sold…
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…

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Incremental to exponential: 5 overlooked benefits of procurement automation : Michael Shaw said : Good summary. Great points, Alan....

Modernizing the healthcare supply chain in the coronavirus era : Jam Saeed Ahmed said : yes, investments in advanced manufacturing capabilities make it easier to build products in the Unit...

'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...

What Really Drives Valuation For Technology Companies These Days? : Pranav Trivedi said : Interesting read indeed !...

'Sell me this procure-to-pay solution' : Jason Busch said : To be revisited! I've been involved in far too boring stuff of late, but I too look forward to the r...