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Supplier Networks and the Source-to-Pay Process: Taulia Connect Dispatch
February 24, 2016 | Jason Busch
At Taulia Connect Tuesday, Hackett’s Amy Fong provided an overview of dozens of various Hackett Group metrics and benchmarks spanning procurement, accounts payable, treasury and related areas. Hackett is increasingly delving into certain aspects of technology as well in its survey work, including the usage of supplier networks to support the source-to-pay process.
Tradeshift Buy: Rethinking E-Procurement, Supplier Networks and P2P From the Ground Up - [PRO Content]
November 24, 2015 | Xavier Olivera
Tradeshift is becoming an increasingly important procure-to-pay (P2P) vendor to watch for procurement organizations and the broader purchasing and B2B ecosystem. The provider has piqued our curiosity with its foray into e-procurement. It stands out from the crowd, from both an architectural and technology perspective, for two key reasons: the recent launch of Tradeshift Buy,…
Spend Matters View: Realizing Accenture’s Future Supplier Network Vision (Part 1)
August 26, 2015 | Jason Busch
Building on my earlier post introducing supplier networks and platform-as-a-service (PaaS), which was inspired by some of the thinking in Accenture’s paper, Procurement’s Next Frontier – The Future Will Give Rise to an Organization of One, when considering supplier networks of tomorrow, I can think of dozens of future network-based applications that will supplement, augment…
How Supplier Network Systems Fit With E-Invoicing: The Role of P2P and E-Procurement
August 25, 2015 | Jason Busch
Separate from supplier networks, e-procurement and purchase-to-pay (P2P) systems enable a range of hard dollar cost reduction benefits by reducing off-contract purchases, lowering purchase volume in general, improving operating efficiency, increasing PO throughput per full-time equivalent and bringing greater spend under management and lower contract rates.   These systems do this by supporting a range…
Supplier Network 2014 Forecast: Customer Recommendations and Vendor Shortlists - [PRO Content]
February 24, 2014 | Jason Busch and Pierre Mitchell
One of the challenges of developing recommendations and shortlists for supplier network providers, as we pointed out in last Friday’s Spend Matters PRO brief titled Supplier Network Forecast: 2014 Market Growth, Analysis and Predictions, is trying to compare individual network and platform providers on an apples-to-apples basis. Indeed, many are beginning to provide application-like (and…
Procurement in Plain English: Supplier and Business Networks
December 13, 2013 | Jason Busch
Supplier networks help companies leverage existing and planned procurement, accounts payable, and ERP investments by bringing greater spend under management more quickly and in a sustainable manner. This is ideally done through connectivity approaches that enable suppliers to avoid having to duplicate efforts with multiple customers. Supplier networks often address core P2P requirements, including supplier…
Hubwoo: Transitioning Beyond the SAP Ecosystem - [Plus + Content]
June 20, 2013 | Pierre Mitchell
Hubwoo has been aggressively positioning itself as an alternative to the Ariba Business Network to existing SAP customers, and also going after different ecosystems (e.g., Microsoft). Today I’ll share a few of my thoughts on some of Hubwoo’s newer developments and how they stack up in the marketplace (especially compared to Ariba/SAP). Bottom line? Buyer…
SAP and Ariba Procurement Customers: Hints at a Directional Solution Focus and Recommendations to Take Advantage of Acquisition and Post-Merger Uncertainty - [Plus + Content]
May 25, 2012 | Jason Busch
For suppliers, there could be many benefits of such a model as well. These might include integrated working capital tools that cross customer and network bounds (imagine a combination of Taulia, which incidentally should be on the immediate shopping list for SAP/Ariba now, with built-in financing partners pre-integrated into the network and pre-approved, low-APR rates…

Disrupting the Source-to-Contract Cycle: Putting Contract Management at the Start of Sourcing : Niuma said : Excellent examination, I found your article very interesting....

A Simplified Approach to Indirect Spend Management : Dave said : The challenge is that in many cases, indirect spend can be lower than the equivalent direct spend. F...

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“Ariba Doesn’t Have Customers, It Has Prisoners” : Bryan Nobbe said : Hopefully I am not too late to the party. Two of my current customers are pushing the Ariba network...