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The Vendorful customer experience: What Makes It Great (Sourcing SolutionMap analysis) - [PRO Content]
June 8, 2021 | Spend Matters Analyst Team
Ever since the creation of the first e-sourcing solutions, this headline technology area has been plagued by an Achilles’ heel — end-user adoption. Despite the benefits they could provide, e-sourcing tools have historically struggled to be usable, especially by non-power users, thus obscuring their full potential ROI. The latest generation of e-sourcing providers, however, has…
Transparency-One: Vendor Analysis, 2021 update — Supply chain visibility and responsible sourcing solution overview, strengths/weaknesses, competitors, tech selection tips - [PRO Content]
May 27, 2021 | Nick Heinzmann
Prior to the Covid pandemic, supply chain visibility might have been considered either a growing interest or merely a “nice to have” level of data. In today’s world, however, that mindset has completely flipped. Organizations that have not already begun exploring the deeper tiers of their supply chain and assessing their resilience soon will be,…
Spring 2021 Strategic Procurement Technologies (Sourcing, Analytics, CLM and SRM): Provider Scoring Summary - [PRO Content]
April 20, 2021 | Spend Matters Team
This Spring 2021 SolutionMap analyzes a select group of strategic procurement technology suite providers (inclusive of spend analytics, sourcing, supplier management and contract lifecycle management).
GEP: What Makes It Great (Sourcing SolutionMap Fall 2020 analysis) - [PRO Content]
April 8, 2021 | Spend Matters Team
GEP is a source-to-pay (S2P) suite provider that also offers managed services, including full BPO and transformation services. The combination of these individual capabilities from a single provider, especially as they become increasingly synergistic, makes GEP a true standout in the procurement technology space. The SolutionMap Fall 2020 release reinforces this position, putting GEP in…
Synertrade: What Makes It Great (Sourcing SolutionMap Analysis) - [PRO Content]
November 25, 2019 | Spend Matters Team
Direct materials sourcing is the elephant in the procurement technology suite room. While many source-to-pay solutions offer strong functionality in support of sourcing processes, only a handful truly support all of the requirements to enable the complexities of direct materials sourcing (e.g., sourcing optimization, bill of materials-based sourcing, commodity management). Among this select group, Synertrade…
Workday and Scout RFP: Customer Recommendations - [PRO Content]
November 12, 2019 | Pierre Mitchell and Jason Busch
This Spend Matters PRO research brief provides analysis in support of Workday and Scout RFP customers following last week’s news that Workday is acquiring the sourcing provider. Previous coverage of the transaction with content aimed at CEOs, strategy / corporate development leaders and investors can be found on Spend Matters Nexus (see Part 1, Part…
Allocation: What Makes It Great (Sourcing SolutionMap Analysis) - [PRO Content]
November 11, 2019 | Spend Matters Team
Direct materials procurement technology has always been a bit of a blind spot for North American manufacturers. Many such businesses are already using indirect materials-centric and services-centric applications (e.g., procure-to-pay, vendor management systems), but few also have specialized direct materials-centric procurement tools as a part of their solution belt. A host of factors, however, is…
Online Platform RigUp Raises $300 Million: Maybe Not Just Another Unicorn? - [PRO Content]
October 28, 2019 | Andrew Karpie
Online marketplaces for connecting workers and businesses have been around since the early-to-mid 2000s. But it has only been in the past eight years that larger organizations have begun to take notice of them (more, perhaps, as curiosities than as full-fledged, digitally enabled suppliers of workers and services). The reality is that few, if any,…
Wax Digital: What Makes It Great (Sourcing SolutionMap Analysis) - [PRO Content]
October 21, 2019 | Spend Matters Team
While plenty of vendors like to wax poetic about how complete or end-to-end their procurement solutions are, few of these ballads stand up to critical scrutiny. Many vendors that tout their “unified platform” often cannot deploy their solutions with as seamless of a module integration as initially claimed. This is not the case with Wax…
Ivalua: Vendor Analysis (Part 4) — Product Strengths - [PRO Content]
August 12, 2019 | Michael Lamoureux, Xavier Olivera, Pierre Mitchell, Andrew Karpie, Nick Heinzmann and Jason Busch
Anything Ivalua still lacks in global brand and market awareness along with sales/marketing infrastructure and prowess, it makes up for by delivering a source-to-pay platform designed to emphasize functional depth, suite-based capabilities and industry-specific enablement scenarios in the private and public sector. Ivalua delivers a no-compromise set of capabilities and an underlying platform that is…
Ivalua: Vendor Analysis (Part 1) — Background - [PRO Content]
July 29, 2019 | Michael Lamoureux, Xavier Olivera, Pierre Mitchell, Andrew Karpie, Nick Heinzmann and Jason Busch
A lot has changed since Spend Matters’ last full snapshot on Ivalua in December 2016, when we said (with apologies to the late comic) that Ivalua was the Rodney Dangerfield of procurement suites in terms of not getting any respect. At the time, we clearly noted that “if we add up the differentiated combination of…
2019 M&A and Investment Dynamics For Procurement Technology and Solutions: Segmenting the Market (Part 1) - [PRO Content]
June 10, 2019 | Jason Busch
Private equity — and other — buyout and M&A interest in the procurement solutions market is at an all-time high. We define procurement solutions as technologies and services that target a range of areas that include: — Core procurement (i.e., source-to-pay, procure-to-pay, etc.) — Direct procurement — Services procurement — Contract management (that goes beyond…

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Procurement technology analyst Bertrand Maltaverne joins Spend Matters from Ivalua : Bertrand Maltaverne said : Thanks Jenny, super happy and excited to be joining the team!...

Procurement technology analyst Bertrand Maltaverne joins Spend Matters from Ivalua : Jenny Draper said : So excited to be working with Bertrand; and he's on a European time zone!! Great opinions and analys...

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....