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The broader procurement technology market has always had a tenuous relationship with the direct procurement technology solutions. Old timers may remember SupplyWorks from the early 2000s, but it folded — and the SupplyWorks brand name now belongs to a janitorial/sanitation service provider (we won’t go down the easy joke paths on this one). More recently, DirectWorks, a perfectly decent solution for direct materials sourcing, also struggled until getting picked up by Ivalua.
部分挑战是直接采购不仅是花费的一部分，而且是一种过程的超集，因为它基本上被注入到更广泛的供应链中。这使得它可以从SCM应用程序，供应链网络，集成玩家和行业参与者等多种解决方案扇区寻址。
Source-to-pay application suites, for their part, are picking off some low-hanging fruit functionality here, but the broader requirements are spelled out well in our coverage of a distinct segment that may be forming for direct materials procurement solutions.
今天的制造商正在慢慢地看到ERP和MRP之外的扩大购买工具，如果您在您的整体解决方案策略/方法之前，我们的选择通常是件好事。许多人会很乐意探索这个新市场。
其中一个更新的选择是Sourceday，一个奥斯汀，基于德克萨斯州的供应商，直接与ERP和MRP系统集成，以自动化采购订单和供应商绩效的管理。通过在由遗留ERP或供应链应用程序的数据上提供更具可用和为采购的层，Sourceday承担了采购组织在管理直接材料支出中找到的许多问题。
结果是,采购可以节省时间,reduce errors and systematically manage supplier performance from a common cloud or mobile interface while still claiming the benefits that an ERP system can offer. There are obviously caveats to this statement — namely around integration — but we’ll touch on this later.
这款花费优先购案介绍提供了坦率的乐观，并提供了Sourceday及其能力。该简报包括Sourceday的概述，关于解决方案的讨论，SWOT分析以及可能考虑提供商的公司的选择要求检查表。