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Tradeshift: Vendor Analysis Update (Part 1) — Background and Solution Overview - [PRO Content]
November 19, 2019 | Xavier Olivera
Tradeshift is a cloud platform that connects buyers and suppliers with the goal of digitizing supply chain relationships, processes and information, while also enabling everyday procure-to-pay activities. Its capabilities span the buying of goods and services through to financing and payment — and significant capability in between, especially in the invoice-to-pay area. In addition to providing…
Tealbook: Vendor Analysis (Part 1) — Background and Solution Overview - [PRO Content]
May 7, 2019 | Nick Heinzmann, Michael Lamoureux and Pierre Mitchell
Procurement organizations today talk a big game about automating transactional processes so that they can focus on upstream value creation opportunities. The thinking goes like this: The biggest opportunities for procurement are not in squeezing diminishing savings out of the usual vendors year after year but in identifying and contracting with the most innovative suppliers…
AI in Supplier Management: Today (Part 1) - [PRO Content]
April 22, 2019 | Michael Lamoureux
With this brief we begin the next installment of our series on the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to various source-to-pay technologies. Previous entries focused on AI in procurement (Today, Part 1 and Part 2; Tomorrow, Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3; and The Day After Tomorrow), AI in sourcing (Today; Tomorrow, Part 1…
Supplier Management: Dozens of Markets in One (Market Introduction) - [PRO Content]
December 17, 2018 | Jason Busch
The supplier management technology and services market is one of the broadest, most complex and mysterious to those who try to make sense of it — and take advantage of the many solutions that it offers. Spend Matters tracks well over 100 providers in this market, and they fall into more than a dozen individual…
AdaptOne: Vendor Analysis (Part 3) — Summary and Competitive Analysis - [PRO Content]
November 6, 2018 | Michael Lamoureux and Jason Busch
The supplier management technology market is among the most fragmented of those in the procurement technology landscape. It comprises multiple segments (and sub-segments), and Spend Matters now tracks approximately 50 providers that compete within niche segments of it. One of these providers is AdaptOne, a vendor specializing in supplier information management that perfectly matches Spend…
AdaptOne: Vendor Analysis (Part 2) — Product Strengths and Weaknesses - [PRO Content]
September 24, 2018 | Michael Lamoureux and Jason Busch
As a standalone component of procurement, supplier management is not new. Nor is the technology to enable it. But most procurement organizations still only have sourcing or e-procurement technology (at best) with capabilities that offer targeted supplier support for larger vendors. From a supplier management standpoint, the majority of firms still pay little attention to…
Program Management: The Missing Link in Procurement Technology Modules and Suites (Part 7 — SRM Technology Components) - [PRO Content]
August 16, 2018 | Michael Lamoureux and Pierre Mitchell
This series has explored the various aspects of a modern strategic procurement system that enables both enterprise-level programs and procurement-led programs and processes. We’ve explored in gory detail the elements for strong analytics, user experiences and agile architectures. The series began with strategic sourcing to illustrate that properly supported category management can be a pretty…
APEX Analytix: Vendor Analysis (Part 3) — Summary and Competitive Analysis - [PRO Content]
August 13, 2018 | Michael Lamoureux and Jason Busch
APEX Analytix is far more than just a recovery audit and spend analysis software provider. It’s also a specialist in supplier management. This third and final installment of our Vendor Snapshot covering APEX Analytix’s supplier management solution provides a SWOT analysis of the company along with a competitive segmentation analysis and comparison. It also offers…
APEX Analytix: Vendor Analysis (Part 2) — Product Strengths and Weaknesses - [PRO Content]
August 8, 2018 | Michael Lamoureux and Jason Busch
Better known for its broader portfolio of recovery audit, overpayment and self-audit software, APEX Analytix also offers a specialized supplier management solution. APEX provides unique, out-of-the-box capabilities that support core supplier information management (SIM), validation and financial controls, as well as working capital optimization solutions. In addition, its supplier management solution delivers the broader configurability,…
Program Management: The Missing Link in Procurement Technology Modules and Suites (Part 6 — An Introduction to SRM Programs) - [PRO Content]
August 6, 2018 | Michael Lamoureux and Pierre Mitchell
In our last set of posts, we addressed the basic requirements for any organization that wants to stand up a modern application to support sourcing programs that not only have a great user experience but are also backed by deep analytics. We went from basic program management requirements all the way to those that might…
Building the Business Case for Managing Suppliers With Technology: 7 ROI Levers (Part 1 — Active Supplier Management) - [PRO Content]
July 24, 2018 | Jason Busch
The return on investment (ROI) for supplier management does not have to be nebulous. With limited effort, procurement organizations can build a compelling business case for supplier management either as a component of broader source-to-pay implementations or on a standalone basis, as well as to develop specific KPIs to measure overall program savings and ongoing…
Building the Business Case for Managing Suppliers with Technology: 7 ROI Levers (Introduction) - [PRO Content]
July 18, 2018 | Jason Busch
If Rodney Dangerfield had ever worked in procurement, he would have been in charge of supplier management. While supplier management does get some respect, the late Dangerfield certainly would have agreed it does not get the respect it deserves. Part of the challenge in garnering respect for supplier management is that it touches on so…

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