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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…
Hiperos (Opus): What Makes it Great (Supplier Management SolutionMap Analysis) - [PRO Content]
August 24, 2018 | Spend Matters Analyst Team
Hiperos (an Opus Company) is one of the most widely used third-party management solutions in the market today, albeit with a focus primarily on services and indirect suppliers. It is also the highest-performing vendor on a functional basis for the Turn-Key persona in the Q2 2018 Supplier Management SolutionMap, as well as a customer favorite…
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…

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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....

Afternoon Coffee: PRO Unlimited launches DaaS solution; Covid pandemic highlights the need for US manufacturing; Chick-fil-A supply chain woes : JP Morris said : Hi John, Spend Matters asked PRO Unlimited about this, and it said its latest data-as-a-service pla...

Afternoon Coffee: PRO Unlimited launches DaaS solution; Covid pandemic highlights the need for US manufacturing; Chick-fil-A supply chain woes : John Peyton said : I’ve never used Pro Unlimited but other similar providers in their space who I have used provided my...