For the buyers and category managers out there, especially those of you deep in the weeds of buying and managing commodities, here’s a quick rundown of news and thoughts from particular commodity markets. MetalMiner, a sister site to Spend Matters, scours the landscape for what matters. This week:
This week’s SolutionMap Customer Insights report focuses on customer reviews for GEP, a suite provider of procurement technology. The applicable SolutionMap categories for this report are Source-to-Pay, Procure-to-Pay, and Strategic Procurement Technologies (SPT includes sourcing, analytics, CLM and SRM). SolutionMap Insider members can read about GEP in our latest report. In each Customer Insights report, we provide a one-page summary of details from the SolutionMap peer review process. It includes ratings on how well the vendor meets its customers' expectations, three key differentiators for the vendor and a list of quotes from customers about the vendor’s greatest strengths.
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For the buyers and category managers out there, especially those of you deep in the weeds of buying and managing commodities, here’s a quick rundown of news and thoughts from particular commodity markets. MetalMiner, a sister site of ours, scours the landscape for what matters. This week:
After about a year of testing, Uber has launched its Uber Works app that uses staffing agencies to help connect shift workers with businesses trying to fill jobs, according to a company blog post.
Spend Matters’ Research Director for labor and services procurement, Andrew Karpie, sees the Uber Works development as part of a longer trend.
“Over the past 10 years, the gig platform economy has emerged in the broader context of organizations using more contingent workers sourced from staffing agencies,” Karpie said. “It has not only created value for consumers and businesses, but has challenged and shaken up the status quo."
Bullhorn, a leading (and perhaps now the largest) provider of comprehensive software for staffing/recruiting agencies, announced this week it had acquired Erecruit, “a provider of applicant tracking and pay and bill solutions and a leader in candidate experience for the staffing and recruitment industry,” according to a press release. Bullhorn reports in the press release that it has more than 10,000 customers globally, while Erecruit reported on its website having 2,100 customers. Until now, Bullhorn and Erecruit — both based in Boston — had been rivals in the category.
This week’s SolutionMap Customer Insights report focuses on customer reviews for APEX Analytix, which provides software, data and services to manage suppliers, recover overpayments, and prevent fraud and payment errors. The applicable SolutionMap category for this report is Supplier Relationship Management & Risk.
SolutionMap Insider members can read about APEX Analytix in our latest report.
In each Customer Insights report, we provide a one-page summary from the SolutionMap peer review process. It includes ratings on how well the vendor meets user expectations, three key differentiators for the vendor and a list of quotes about the vendor’s greatest strengths.
For the buyers and category managers out there, especially those of you deep in the weeds of buying and managing commodities, here’s a quick rundown of news and thoughts from particular commodity markets. MetalMiner, a sister site of ours, scours the landscape for what matters. This week:
This week’s SolutionMap Customer Insights report focuses on customer reviews for Wax Digital, a UK-based suite provider that has a robust source-to-pay offering. The applicable SolutionMap categories for this report are E-Procurement, Sourcing, and Supplier Relationship Management & Risk.
SolutionMap Insider members can read about Wax Digital in our latest report.
In each Customer Insights report, we provide a one-page summary of insights from the SolutionMap peer review process. The report includes ratings on how well the vendor meets user expectations, three key differentiators for the vendor and a list of quotes about the vendor’s greatest strengths.
To highlight the most exciting procurement technology start-up companies in the world, Spend Matters is releasing its “Future 5” listing today in conjunction with the Digital Procurement World conference in Amsterdam.
The procurement technology analyst and media firm Spend Matters is well-known to recognize 100 procurement vendors in the industry each spring through its “50 Procurement Providers to Watch” and “50 Procurement Providers to Know” lists.
Given the speed with which many procurement technology start-ups move from early-stage to market contenders, the Spend Matters team decided to issue this mid-year Future 5 listing of exciting players.
As of Q3 2019, the CW/S SolutionMap category “Independent Contract Workers” will be renamed “Direct Sourcing of Workforce/Services” (DSW/S) to better represent the diversity of solutions that Spend Matters has covered to date and those we will cover in the future.
In addition to the name change, we have broadened the SolutionMap definition, in part, because the solution category has expanded beyond the concept of the original “freelancer management systems” (FMS) to include providers addressing a much broader range of use cases.
Check back in with Spend Matters tomorrow for the Q3 2019 SolutionMap release, which will include the latest rankings of Direct Sourcing of Workforce/Services solution providers.
For the buyers and category managers out there, especially those of you deep in the weeds of buying and managing commodities, here’s a quick rundown of news and thoughts from particular commodity markets. MetalMiner, a sister site of ours, scours the landscape for what matters. This week: