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Coronavirus affects the world of work — How can businesses cope with the COVID-19 outbreak? (Part 1) - [PRO Content]
March 17, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
Note: This Spend Matters PRO brief about the coronavirus and issues related to the contingent workforce and services (CW/S) space has been unlocked from the paywall to inform all of our readers. Subsequent briefs in this series may be for PRO subscribers only. Among all of the coronavirus outbreak’s severe, extraordinary effects on people and…
Updated — CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE: Consider These Procurement Technology Solutions to Get You Through the COVID-19 Pandemic (Introduction) - [PRO Content]
March 13, 2020 | Spend Matters Analyst Team
UPDATED Sunday, March 22: Spend Matters analysts have updated this PRO Coronavirus Response piece to include two additional categories and related providers, in addition to our five original categories. All of our recommended vendors are now listed in each category. Last week, this post was unlocked from behind the paywall so all Spend Matters readers…
Elevated Resources: Vendor Analysis (Solution Overview, SWOT, Selection Checklist, Commentary) - [PRO Content]
February 24, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
This Spend Matters PRO Vendor Introduction offers a candid take on Elevated Resources and its capabilities that help mid-size companies with their contingent workforce programs. The brief includes an overview of the company and its solution offerings, a solution evaluation, a SWOT analysis and, lastly, a selection checklist for companies that might consider the provider.…
Five Scenarios for VMS 2025: Scenario 2 — Procurement Rules - [PRO Content]
February 19, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
This is “Scenario 2” of the Spend Matters PRO series in which we consider five scenarios for VMS in 2025. These scenarios represent exploratory thinking (not predictions) on our part. And they are not necessarily meant to be mutually exclusive (in fact, multiple scenarios will probably co-exist in 2025). In any case, they are intended…
What’s going on at SAP Ariba (sorry, I mean SAP Intelligent Spend Group)? - [PRO Content]
February 13, 2020 | Magnus Bergfors
SAP Ariba (and before that Ariba on its own) has been the dominant vendor in the source-to-pay market for almost two decades. And it was arguably the first S2P vendor, after its acquisition of Freemarkets in 2004 (depending a bit on how you define S2P!) Since then, other vendors have constantly compared themselves to Ariba…
Category Analytics and Intelligence Providers: Defining and Exploring a Nascent Market for Procurement Solutions (Part 3 — Labor/Services and Transportation) - [PRO Content]
February 12, 2020 | Spend Matters Analyst Team
Accurate intelligence and benchmarks on goods and services are essential to effective sourcing, yet few procurement organizations have comprehensive coverage for all data sources across all categories that they manage. So to help practitioners get a better lay of the category intelligence and analytics landscape, Spend Matters has begun a market scan of technology, data/benchmarking…
HCM Strategies: Vendor Analysis — Solution Overview, SWOT, Tech Selection Tips - [PRO Content]
February 5, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
This Spend Matters PRO Vendor Introduction offers a candid take on HCM Strategies and its capabilities — features that help companies establish market-based salary/pay-rate and contingent labor rate benchmarks and gain related insights into the market and their own business patterns. The company provides services within the U.S. today but is targeting the UK for…
2020 Procurement Predicaments and Predictions — Part 1 (Series Wrap-Up) - [PRO Content]
January 30, 2020 | Pierre Mitchell
As the first month in 2020 is drawing to a close, the holiday season is a distant memory and sleeves are being rolled up in earnest. As such, we’ll wrap up the Spend Matters analysts’ 2020 procurement predictions series for PRO subscribers as we look forward to this new year and new decade. We’ll first…
2020 & Direct Sourcing of Workforce/Services: What to Know - [PRO Content]
January 27, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
Direct sourcing of workforce/services (DSW/S) has been one of the most consistent, rising trends in the evolving contingent workforce/services (CW/S) procurement space in recent years. To a limited extent, the sourcing of contingent workers with little or no involvement of third party intermediaries has been practiced by most organizations for decades. But more recently, it…
2020 Predictions for Services Procurement: Scenarios and Black Swans - [PRO Content]
January 13, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
As discussed in “2020 Problems in Services Procurement — No Light at the End of the Tunnel,” services constitutes the largest and perhaps most poorly managed non-payroll spend category. It covers an expansive set of sub-categories, from temporary staffing to other forms of directly sourced contingent workforce to a multitude of contracted B2B services (consulting,…
Coupa buys Yapta: A look at the T&E deal and provider capabilities - [PRO Content]
January 8, 2020 | Andrew Karpie, Magnus Bergfors and Spend Matters Analyst Team
This week, Coupa, a provider of business spend management solutions, announced its acquisition of Yapta, a solution provider that enables businesses to automatically monitor and re-book air and hotel reservations when prices drop. Yapta also provides category specific spend analytics and intelligence. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. While likely not a large…
PeopleTicker: Vendor Analysis — Solution Overview, SWOT, Tech Selection Tips - [PRO Content]
January 8, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
This Spend Matters PRO Vendor Introduction offers a candid take on PeopleTicker and its capabilities — features that help companies establish market-based salary/pay-rate and contingent labor rate benchmarks and gain related insights into the market and their own business patterns. The brief includes an overview of PeopleTicker and its solution offerings, a summary solution evaluation,…

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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...