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Creactives: Vendor Analysis (Part 1) — Solution overview, strengths/weaknesses, tech selection tips - [PRO Content]
April 6, 2021 | Michael Lamoureux
In this two-part Spend Matters PRO series, we will overview Creactives' unique technologies and capabilities that make it a vendor that every global multinational sourcing direct materials should be considering as part of their overall source-to-pay and/or supply chain technology arsenal. While there are a large number of traditional solutions for material master data management…
What the Jason Alexander hoodie ad teaches us about the past and future of spend analytics capabilities - [PRO Content]
February 10, 2021 | Michael Lamoureux and Jason Busch
One of our favorite Super Bowl advertisements this year was the Jason Alexander “hoodie” — a totally hilarious plug for Tide. Any true “Seinfeld” fan knows that you’re usually laughing at George Costanza, not with him, but somehow you feel sorry for the guy, at least part of the time, which is precisely why this…
Beyond Spend Influence: Enabling Procurement’s Emerging Roles in Business Transformation (Part 8) — Beyond Continuous Improvement - [PRO Content]
December 2, 2020 | Pierre Mitchell
This is the last of our multi-part Spend Matters PRO series on transformation, focusing not just on digital procurement transformation, but also a broader supply-aware transformation of the value chain and the business (i.e., spend management and supply management improve business management). In the previous installment, we covered: How procurement can use an empathetic, but…
Ignite Procurement: Vendor Analysis (Part 1) — Solution Overview, Strengths/Weaknesses, Tech Selection Tips - [PRO Content]
November 18, 2020 | Michael Lamoureux
Ignite Procurement is an analytics start-up that we’ll examine in a two-part Spend Matters PRO Vendor Analysis, and it’s part of our deep dives on various analytics vendors this year. Analytics is becoming more necessary for procurement organizations to get a handle on their spend. More and more organizations are realizing this, but few organizations…
Beyond Spend Influence: Enabling Procurement’s Emerging Roles in Business Transformation (Part 3) — Digitally Enabled Engagement, Outcomes, Demand and Spend - [PRO Content]
September 22, 2020 | Pierre Mitchell
In the first installment of this Spend Matters PRO series, we kicked off our analysis of how progressive organizations are influencing spend and stakeholders at a deeper level beyond traditional sourcing influence. In Part 2, we discussed how progressive procurement organizations were improving their influence through coherent communication and alignment of procurement “services” to various…
Beyond Spend Influence: Enabling Procurement’s Emerging Roles in Business Transformation (Part 2) — Empathy, Alignment, Mission, Brand and Procurement Service Delivery - [PRO Content]
September 3, 2020 | Pierre Mitchell
In the first installment of this Spend Matters PRO series, we kicked off our analysis of how progressive organizations are influencing spend and stakeholders at a deeper level beyond traditional sourcing influence. In this next edition, we’ll dive into some strategies for deeper and more meaningful engagement with stakeholders, and some examples from some progressive…
Spendata: Rewriting Spend Analysis from the Ground Up - [PRO Content]
July 16, 2020 | Michael Lamoureux
Two years ago, we introduced you to Spendata (in our PRO Vendor Analysis Part 1 and Part 2 series) as one of the newest entrants to the spend analysis space, founded by some of the oldest veterans in the market. They've been designing and building analytics solutions for over two decades, and have already defined…
aPriori: Product Cost Management tool spotlight (Part 2) — Use Cases, Depth of Solution, ROI, Summary Analysis - [PRO Content]
June 9, 2020 | Eric Hiller
Part 2 of this Spend Matters PRO series will look at an array of use cases for aPriori’s capabilities in product cost management. It also will include profiles of who should use the solution, the depth and breadth of the solution, how quickly aPriori can return value, and a summary analysis. For full disclosure, I…
Rosslyn Data Technologies: Vendor Analysis (Part 2) — Strengths and Weaknesses - [PRO Content]
April 8, 2020 | Michael Lamoureux
In Part 1 of the Spend Matters PRO Vendor Snapshot series, we detailed the history and solution capabilities of Rosslyn Data Technologies, one of the more distinctive spend analytics vendors in the procurement space. A granddaddy of the sector, it was one of the first self-serve vendors, first cloud vendors and first public providers in…
Rosslyn Data Technologies: Vendor Analysis (Part 1) — Background, Solution Overview, Selection Checklist - [PRO Content]
April 7, 2020 | Michael Lamoureux
In this three-part Spend Matters PRO Vendor Snapshot, you'll see that Rosslyn Data Technologies is a granddaddy in the best-of-breed spend analytics space. With all of the acquisitions, re-brandings, mergers, re-platformings and a recent name change from Rosslyn Analytics, there are few standalone best-of-breed providers left in the space that have been around for over…
AppZen: Vendor Analysis — Strengths/Weaknesses, Company SWOT, Competitors, Selection Checklist - [PRO Content]
March 18, 2020 | Nick Heinzmann
The term “audit” usually implies a reactive activity. When something goes wrong, a business conducts an audit to find out what happened, then corrects its procedures to prevent the error from recurring. This approach is, of course, not ideal. Rather than spend time and energy retroactively correcting a problem, taking a proactive, preventative approach to…
CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE: Sievo — find the risks hiding in your data, prioritize and take action - [PRO Content]
March 16, 2020 | Michael Lamoureux
In our response to the coronavirus outbreak, this Spend Matters PRO series is continuing its mission to examine selected technology providers that professionals in procurement, finance and supply chain organizations should consider to reduce, and even mitigate, coronavirus supply risk — and then recover as fast as possible when sanity returns to the world. The…

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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...