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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.
Healthcare Supply Chain Has Its Own Needs, Challenges: An Insider’s View
April 29, 2019 | JP Morris
With companies like Amazon and Walmart trying to break into the healthcare supply chain sector, it’s curious why they haven’t made great strides. It turns out that what works in many supply chains doesn’t automatically translate to the healthcare provider supply chain. Mike DeLuca, executive vice president of operations at Prodigo Solutions, learned that lesson…
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…
Learn the Best Practices for Integrating Your E-procurement System with Amazon Business - [Sponsored Article]
March 19, 2019 | Oloyede Olumide, Amazon Business
To automate your procure-to-pay processes, your business will need to integrate your e-procurement systems with the online catalogs of your contracted suppliers. Amazon Business launched in 2015 with a vision to give businesses a simple, personalized and transparent online B2B experience. An extension of this vision was to simplify the integration for businesses connecting their…
Using Technology to Create a More User-Friendly Procurement Experience - [Sponsored Article]
March 12, 2019 | Simon Whatson, Efficio
Procurement departments often cite a lack of engagement from the wider business as a key reason for why they can’t add more value to their organizations. Stakeholders progress workstreams and discussions with suppliers without involving procurement, goes the argument. This is certainly true in many cases, but why do non-procurement colleagues choose to take this…
WPS Management (Wescale): Vendor Analysis (Part 1) — Background and Solution Overview - [PRO Content]
March 11, 2019 | Xavier Olivera
Wescale is the broader “procurement umbrella” and new open business integration platform of WPS Management, a provider that traces its roots to 1997 with the creation of Wallmedien AG, one of the first e-procurement solutions for the SAP environment in Europe. We’re sorry if this sounds confusing (it is). But what matters is that since…
Achieving a Personalized Buying Experience for Businesses - [Sponsored Article]
January 29, 2019 | Doug Cerny, Amazon Business and Srikanth Avadhanam, Amazon Business
Today’s technology enables fine-grained customization and personalization. When applied correctly, personalization can lead to a better customer experience and higher sales or engagement. If applied poorly, it can detract from the user experience, causing frustration and possibly missed sales. In this article, we’ll walk through some of the personalization that can be enabled when using…
AI in Procurement Tomorrow (Part 3): Category Wizards Will Save Time, Add Strategic Muscle - [PRO Content]
November 28, 2018 | Michael Lamoureux
In this series, Spend Matters delves into the status of artificial intelligence, with a focus on how AI can improve the sourcing and procuring process. Today the technology is really “assisted intelligence,” which was detailed in our precursor series: AI in Procurement Today, Part 1 and Part 2). The technology of tomorrow promises the “augmented…
So You Want to Build a B2B Marketplace: 8 Business Scenarios & Case Examples (Part 1) - [PRO Content]
November 13, 2018 | Jason Busch
Just what is a B2B marketplace? Ask someone like the “gray hairs” on the Spend Matters team who were advisers to first generation industry-based exchanges during the .com era (1999-2001) and they’d likely tell you it was a great theoretical concept to bring buyers and suppliers together in support of procurement and supply chain processes…
Coupa-Aquiire Deal Highlights Key Change: Marketplace E-Procurement Models Aren’t One-Size-Fits-All Anymore
October 25, 2018 | Tom Finn
Spend Matters’ recent coverage of Coupa’s purchase of Aquiire details Coupa’s acquisition rationale and the general wisdom of its decision — but the deal also calls attention to a useful context that evaluators of “Amazon-like” e-procurement systems would be well served to understand. As these systems are tailored for different industries, they should be evaluated…
Amazon Business Prime Updated: Analysis and Procurement Recommendations (October 2018 Update) - [PRO Content]
October 23, 2018 | Xavier Olivera, Jason Busch and Pierre Mitchell
Earlier today, Amazon announced a host of enhancements to its Amazon Business Prime offering. To help procurement organizations understand the implications of these added capabilities, this Spend Matters PRO research brief provides an overview and analysis of the new solution components and offers recommendations to procurement organizations already using or considering Amazon Business. The emphasis…
‘Just Coupa It’: By Buying Aquiire, Coupa Targets Google-like Search and the End of Punch-Outs - [PRO Content]
October 16, 2018 | Nick Heinzmann and Pierre Mitchell
Coupa announced its latest acquisition Monday with its purchase of Aquiire, a provider of e-procurement and procure-to-pay software. The deal brings to Coupa’s business spend management suite — which now includes support for e-procurement, P2P, source-to-pay, travel and expense management, and services procurement — many of the latest features for front-end shopping and catalog management,…

Procurement Leaders moves its event to the fall as a coronavirus precaution : Loqualist said : Tough times for business. Entreprises have to be strong. Where can we find the exact new dates for t...

AI will shift our industry even more than the internet did 20 years ago. Here’s why. : Peter Smith said : "AI will shift our industry even more than the internet did 20 years ago" Nope. Don't think s...

The state of dynamic discounting in B2B payments : David Gustin said : Yes, because they do not offer an einvoicing or AP automation software. They are more a Treasury to...

The state of dynamic discounting in B2B payments : Robert Solomon said : Hasn't C2FO made an entire business based on taking gain share from dynamic discounting?...

5 Tips and Considerations for Your Next Spend Analysis RFP : Puneet Jain said : What is a typical spend threshold when a company should go for an RFP for sourcing indirect purchase...