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The Kodiak Rating customer experience: What Makes It Great (Supplier Relationship Management SolutionMap analysis) - [PRO Content]
June 16, 2021 | Spend Matters Analyst Team
The market for supplier management is one of the most fragmented, with a variety of approaches to solving complex issues. Indeed, the fragmented nature of this market is related to the broad and complex array of problems to be tackled when managing suppliers, and the rise of SXM startups to address specific pain points has…
SupplHi: Vendor Analysis — Background, solution overview, roadmap, SupplHi competitors/market analysis, customer feedback, tech selection tips, analyst summary with strengths/weaknesses - [PRO Content]
June 14, 2021 | Michael Lamoureux and Nick Heinzmann
With the abundance of pure-play solutions for supplier discovery and supplier management that have hit the global marketplace in recent years, one would think that the supplier management market had seen it all. But SupplHi is a new entrant into the space that has found a way to take what may seem like a missed…
The graphiteConnect Customer Experience: What Makes It Great (Supplier Relationship Management SolutionMap Analysis) - [PRO Content]
May 6, 2021 | Spend Matters Analyst Team
The supplier relationship management (SXM) market has no shortage of impressive solutions. But within the number of different offerings, the graphiteConnect solution is one that has created a fresh approach to gathering and maintaining supplier data. The graphiteConnect approach is to build an open network for supplier management. It promotes “many to many” data sharing…
Bid Ops: Vendor Analysis, 2021 — Solution overview, strengths/weaknesses, SWOT, Bid Ops competitors, tech-selection tips - [PRO Content]
April 26, 2021 | Michael Lamoureux
Despite the merger and acquisition frenzy in the procurement technology market of the past few years, the upstream source-to-contract (S2C) market continues to remain crowded. For organizations evaluating a sourcing solution, not only can they choose from 10 source-to-pay (S2P) players, they also can select from multiple mini-suites (S2C) or dozens of other vendors in…
Spring 2021 Supplier Relationship Management and Risk (SRM): Provider Scoring Summary - [PRO Content]
April 20, 2021 | Spend Matters Team
This SolutionMap scoring summary analyzes a select group of supplier management (SXM) providers. It includes coverage of supplier information management (SIM), supplier master data management (MDM), supplier performance management and broader initiative management (e.g., risk, third-party management) capabilities. It is part of our Spring 2021 SolutionMap report series, also featuring spend analytics, sourcing, contract management,…
PaymentWorks: Vendor Analysis — Solution Overview for Supplier Information Management and Fraud Prevention, Roadmap, Customer Feedback, PaymentWorks Competitors, Analyst Insights - [PRO Content]
April 1, 2021 | Nick Heinzmann
This Spend Matters PRO Vendor Analysis provides an overview of PaymentWorks and its solution for supplier information management and fraud prevention. The largest source of cyber-crime in the US is, unfortunately, directly connected to proper procurement processes. According to the FBI, half of cyber-crime targets B2B payments, often via business email compromise (BEC), where fraudulent…
Ravacan: Vendor Analysis — Solution Overview for Mass Production Planning, Supplier Collaboration and Asset Management - [PRO Content]
January 18, 2021 | Nick Heinzmann
This Spend Matters PRO Vendor Analysis provides an overview of Ravacan and its solution covering direct materials and asset collaboration management. The notion that spreadsheets are archaic tools dying to be replaced by SaaS solutions is somewhat of a cliché in the enterprise software world. Yet the adoption of cloud-based alternatives for various business processes…
Prewave: Vendor Analysis — Solution & Platform Overview, Vision & Roadmap, Market Analysis and Analyst Assessment - [PRO Content]
January 12, 2021 | Pierre Mitchell
This Spend Matters PRO Vendor Analysis provides an overview of the supply intelligence provider Prewave, its solution, technology, value proposition and position in the marketplace. The COVID-19 pandemic has clearly highlighted the danger of losing visibility of upstream supply conditions. Many critical suppliers have been threatened by severe demand reductions and internal operational challenges (including…
Graphite Systems: Vendor Analysis (Part 3) — Detailed Overview of the graphiteConnect Solution - [PRO Content]
October 8, 2020 | Magnus Bergfors
Part 3 of this Spend Matters PRO Vendor Analysis focuses on Graphite Systems’ offering and gives a detailed overview of the graphiteConnect solution. The focus of its solution, graphiteConnect, has mainly been on SIM, but it has also expanded into SRM and supplier risk management. In Part 1, we discussed the company background and graphiteConnect’s…
Graphite Systems: Vendor Analysis (Part 2) — SWOT and Competitors for its graphiteConnect solution - [PRO Content]
October 7, 2020 | Magnus Bergfors
For Part 2 of this Spend Matters PRO Vendor Analysis series, we will look at graphiteConnect's competitors in the supplier management solution market and we'll offer a SWOT analysis on the vendor, Graphite Systems. The supplier management solution market is red hot, and there are new solutions popping up left, right and center. However, the…
Graphite Systems: Vendor Analysis (Part 1) — Background of Company & graphiteConnect Solution, Strengths/Weaknesses, Tech Selection Tips - [PRO Content]
October 6, 2020 | Magnus Bergfors
The first part of this Spend Matters PRO Vendor Analysis looks at Graphite Systems’ background, offers an overview of its graphiteConnect solution and details graphiteConnect’s strengths and weaknesses. But Graphite Systems is part of a larger story. Networks are nothing new in the procurement technology space. But the focus of most networks has so far…
Alibaba.com: Ecosystem marketplace designed for SMB (Overview & Analysis) - [PRO Content]
August 24, 2020 | David Gustin
Businessman Jack Ma had a vision to use technology to democratize global trade. Alibaba.com was born 21 years ago, and for the first 17 years, it was a way to source from China or find OEM companies, contractors, etc. Basically, it was a directory of Chinese OEM capability But the vision was always for Alibaba.com…

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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...

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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....