Insider Core

Spend Matters at its best: researching, speculating, challenging, and illuminating around technology, trends, and ideas in the procurement and supply chain space. Core covers everything that falls outside of Insider member categories (and more).

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Core members get:

Research and opinion on evolving concepts like alt-suites, guided buying (intake management, orchestration) and generative AI
Coverage of vendors that don’t fall into traditional Insider categories like procurement services, Trade Finance/SCF, ESG/GRC, AI/Machine Learning in procurement
Best practices and how-to guides technology integration, (digital) transformation
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Core in the Content Hub

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CORE P2P S2P

Zip: Vendor Analysis — Intake and Orchestration, S2P solution overview, roadmap, competitors, user considerations, analyst summary 01/08/2025

CORE SRM

WNS Procurement, powered by The Smart Cube: Vendor Analysis — Risk, Category and Commodity Intelligence and AI Assistant solutions overview, competitors, user considerations, analyst summary 12/18/2024

AP/I2P CO2 CLM CORE EPRO P2P Risk S2C S2P SOURCING ANALYTICS SXM SRM VMS

Tariffs and Procurement (Part 3): Tech capabilities for proper tariff management 12/16/2024

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Going global with your external workforce program 11/20/2024

CORE

GenAI and chatbots — The fallacy of ‘No UI is the new UI’ — Part 2 11/14/2024

AP/I2P CO2 CLM CORE EPRO P2P Risk S2C S2P SOURCING ANALYTICS SXM SRM VMS

Autogmentation Part 5: A detailed examination of GenAI features in procurement tech 10/28/2024

AP/I2P CORE

Pivot: Vendor Analysis — Intake and orchestration solution overview, roadmap, competitors, user considerations, analyst summary 09/28/2024

CORE

NPI: Vendor Analysis — SaaS intelligence solution overview, roadmap, competitors, user considerations, analyst summary 09/25/2024

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Drawing the line between intake and orchestration 08/28/2024

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