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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…
Procurement KPIs Series (Part 4) — Deep Diving into ‘Spend Under Management’ - [PRO Content]
July 27, 2020 | Pierre Mitchell
One of the goals of a business is to have as much spend (with a capital “S” for all expenditures: CapEx, OpEx and COGS) under management as possible. And that goal should be extended out to supplier spend, where procurement wants to have as much supplier spend influence as possible. That way you know what…
Procurement KPIs: The ‘Keys’ that Unlock the Value of Spend and Supply Management (Part 3) - [PRO Content]
May 7, 2020 | Pierre Mitchell
In the first two parts of this KPI series, we highlighted some of the foundational measurements for procurement pros and the problems of traditional procurement key performance indicators in terms of how they can be incomplete, misleading and even damaging to a value chain transformation. In fact, one of the easiest ways to assess an…
Kodiak Rating: Vendor Analysis (Solution Overview, Strengths/Weaknesses, Company SWOT, Selection Checklist, Analysis) - [PRO Content]
February 26, 2020 | Magnus Bergfors
As we’ve mentioned in previous research, the market for supplier management applications is fragmented with many types of solutions and approaches. At Spend Matters, we have defined five core supplier management capabilities: * Supplier information management (SIM) * Supplier performance management (SPM) * Supplier relationship management (SRM) * Supplier risk management (Supplier Risk) * Supplier…
The 5 Building Blocks of Supplier Management Capabilities - [PRO Content]
December 20, 2019 | Magnus Bergfors and Pierre Mitchell
As an analyst you want to define things, classify them and put them in buckets to be able to analyze and compare them. Often that works fairly well, and we can rate vendors and solutions against each other to find the best fit in any given situation. But in some areas this is more difficult,…
ConnXus Brings ‘Quick and Clean’ Supplier Data Cleansing to the Masses with SmartScrub: Vendor Analysis Update - [PRO Content]
July 1, 2019 | Nick Heinzmann
For the majority of procurement organizations today, obtaining and maintaining accurate supplier master data is a huge pain point. Most organizations still do not trust their vendor master as a single source of truth (or even have one!) — nor do they have the time or personnel to continuously validate and enrich supplier records to…
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…
After EcoVadis’ Sustain 2019: Company Update, Solution Overview and Technology Enhancements (Part 1) - [PRO Content]
March 14, 2019 | Spend Matters Analyst Team
This week, Spend Matters founder and analyst team member Jason Busch represented the Spend Matters team at the EcoVadis Sustain 2019 customer conference in Paris, where about 500 attendees gathered. EcoVadis, a sustainability/CSR solutions provider that combines ratings content (CSR focused) and a technology platform, is not so dissimilar from providers such as Avetta and…
Avetta and Browz to Merge: Facts, Figures, Solution & Market Overview (Part 1) - [PRO Content]
February 14, 2019 | Spend Matters Analyst Team
Avetta announced earlier today that it and Browz are merging. Together under the Avetta name, the two providers of supplier management and supply chain risk management will become one of the clear leaders in perhaps the most “under the radar” procurement solutions market. The general focus of these two providers is on supplier and contractor…

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