Procurement Research

This landscape definition and overview report focuses on the capability and value of various types of solutions within the supply risk management market from a procurement perspective, new for 2018.

This landscape definition and overview report focuses on the capability and value of various types of solutions within the contingent workforce and services market from a procurement perspective.

In this briefing paper we take a look at how spend analytics, and smart and creative use of the source data, can help organisations answer some of those tricky, complex, or even embarrassing questions relating to procurement expenditure. We look at questions such as: How do I get to the bottom of tail spend? and How much corruption really goes on my organisation?

This report contains the inaugural Strategic Procurement Technologies (Sourcing, Analytics, CLM, and SRM) SolutionMap℠, a comparative analysis of SPT technology solution suite providers for Q4 2017.

This report contains the inaugural Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) SolutionMap℠, a comparative analysis of CLM technology solution providers for Q4 2017.

This report contains the inaugural Spend and Procurement Analytics SolutionMap℠, a comparative analysis of spend analytics technology solution providers for Q4 2017.

This report contains the inaugural Supplier Relationship Management and Risk (SRM) SolutionMap℠, a comparative analysis of SRM technology solution providers for Q4 2017.

This report contains the inaugural Sourcing SolutionMap℠, a comparative analysis of sourcing technology solution providers for Q4 2017.

This report contains the first update of the E-Procurement, Invoice-to-Pay and Procure-to-Pay SolutionMap℠, a comparative analysis of e-procurement, invoice-to-pay and procure-to-pay suite technology solution providers for Q4 2017.

Over the last 12 months, an increasing number of procurement organizations have come to Spend Matters asking how to solve their “tail spend problem.” The issue is simple to grasp — figuring out how to handle the 85%–90% of suppliers that constitute only 5%–10% of spend without consuming the majority of the procurement staff’s time — but far from easy to fix. To better understand the problem and determine the best solutions, we conducted a research study on how companies are addressing tail spend.