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The Direct Sourcing of Workers/Services (DSW/S) Solution Market Landscape- [PRO Content]
December 8, 2020 |Andrew Karpie

Spend Matters Contingent Workforce/Services SolutionMaps are made up of three maps covering the main enterprise software solutions used by organizations to manage contingent workforce and services (CW/S) procurement. These three maps represent purpose-built solutions for: Temporary Staffing (solutions known originally as VMS (vendor management system) has been the key enterprise technology for over 25 years)…
Market Dojo: Vendor Analysis 2020 Update (Part 3) — Competitors and Analyst Summary- [PRO Content]
August 6, 2020 |Magnus Bergfors

While the procurement technology market has changed in some ways, sourcing suites still compete in a fragmented global marketplace with everyone from large ERPs and full source-to-pay suites to well-funded startups to bootstrapped ventures. They are all competing for a growing pie, consisting of Global 2000 organizations often going to market for a second or…
Xeeva: Vendor Analysis (Part 2) — SWOT, Competitors & Market Overview, Tech Selection Tips- [PRO Content]
June 24, 2020 |Magnus BergforsandMichael Lamoureux

A competitive analysis on Xeeva is difficult because the source-to-pay provider doesn't just compete against the handful of players trying to bring machine learning and AI to the S2P space. It also takes on all of the traditional source-to-pay vendors who offer modern sourcing experiences, especially if they are augmented with market intelligence, best practices,…
‘E-Sourcing Execution’ Competitors: Defining the Market Landscape (Part 3) — Specialist Vendors- [PRO Content]
May 13, 2020 |Magnus Bergfors

It’s time to look at the “e-sourcing execution” vendors that compete with a smaller, specialized set of offerings. In Part 2 of this Spend Matters PRO series, we focused on the suite providers in this market because, as you’ll recall, there are two distinct sets of vendors that offer e-sourcing execution functionality, the S2P providers…
‘E-Sourcing Execution’ Competitors: Defining the Market Landscape (Part 2) — Suite Vendors- [PRO Content]
May 12, 2020 |Magnus Bergfors

There are two distinct sets of vendors that offer “e-sourcing execution” functionality, the S2P providers that also offer P2P suites and the more specialized sourcing suite vendors that don’t. The variety in the second group is bigger and varies from vendors that also sell contract management or supplier management on a standalone basis to vendors…
‘E-Sourcing Execution’ Competitors: Defining the Market Landscape (Part 1) — Introduction- [PRO Content]
May 11, 2020 |Magnus Bergfors

“E-sourcing” emerged as a term in the 1990s as Freemarket and others developed solutions to enable organizations to negotiate online. The problem now is that sourcing, and especially strategic sourcing, encompasses more than what the traditional e-sourcing solutions supported. We are therefore introducing the term “e-sourcing execution” solutions that in our opinion more accurately reflects…
What’s the Price: Expert product cost management vendor review — a PRO Collab brief- [PRO Content]
March 3, 2020 |Eric Hiller

Editor’s note: This vendor review of What's the Price is the first in our "PRO Collab" series. Spend Matters will be inviting our expert friends in the industry to collaborate with us and complement our PRO coverage of the procurement, finance and supply chain solution landscape. Eric Hiller, the most knowledgeable person we’ve ever met…
Category Analytics and Intelligence Providers: Defining and Exploring a Nascent Market for Procurement Solutions (Part 3 — Labor/Services and Transportation)- [PRO Content]
February 12, 2020 |Spend Matters Analyst Team

Accurate intelligence and benchmarks on goods and services are essential to effective sourcing, yet few procurement organizations have comprehensive coverage for all data sources across all categories that they manage. So to help practitioners get a better lay of the category intelligence and analytics landscape, Spend Matters has begun a market scan of technology, data/benchmarking…
Category Analytics and Intelligence Providers: Defining and Exploring a Nascent Market for Procurement Solutions (Part 2 — Direct Materials, Indirect Materials and Cross-Category Specialists)- [PRO Content]
February 11, 2020 |Spend Matters Analyst Team

Accurate intelligence and benchmarks on goods and services are essential to effective sourcing, yet few procurement organizations have comprehensive coverage for all data sources across all categories that they manage. So to help practitioners get a better lay of the category intelligence and analytics landscape, Spend Matters has begun a market scan of technology, data/benchmarking…
Category Analytics and Intelligence Providers: Defining and Exploring a Nascent Market for Procurement Solutions (Part 1 — Introduction)- [PRO Content]
February 10, 2020 |Spend Matters Analyst Team

If data is the new oil, then identifying the reservoirs and shale formations from which to extract prices, benchmarks and other pertinent purchasing information is a critical task for procurement and supply chain organizations. Why? Because the success of any sourcing effort depends on not just identifying the appropriate specifications and suppliers to satisfy a…
20 Tips to Maximize Private Equity, Investment and Strategic Buyer Outcomes (Part 9: Defining the ‘Post-Close’ Plan)- [PRO Content]
December 31, 2019 |Jason Busch

In this Spend Matters Nexus brief, we’ll look at our final tip (No. 20!) for sellers to get the most from a liquidity event when raising a large growth capital round or selling to private equity or strategic buyers. This tip, defining the “post-close” plan, may seem like a simple follow-on effort that you can…
What’s the Price: Vendor Analysis (Part 2 — Product Strengths and Weaknesses)- [PRO Content]
November 21, 2019 |Nick Heinzmann

In our last brief we introduced you to What’s the Price, a five-year-old Dutch vendor that offers should-cost modeling tools for supplier negotiations. Born out of the frustrations of two procurement professionals who wanted to get faster, more accurate price estimates to counteract supplier quotes, WTP makes smart use of publicly available big data to…

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Embracing innovative procurement solutions that transform sourcing and contracting:solidproessaid : Awesome blog with great information...thanks for sharing with us...

Demystifying the role of technology in supply chain finance: Blockchain:Nagina Sawhneysaid : Hi, insightful article. It would be interesting to know and follow how block chain enable supply cha...

Procurement recruitment — Why is the tech talent pool so shallow?:Peter Smithsaid : Great article - just picking up on one of the many goodpoints here, for many years it has amazed me ...

Procurement in 2030: More change coming than ever before:Dinesh Lakshmanansaid : While we discuss on procurement, the Indirect and Direct gap is been increasing consistently the yea...

Accenture buys Xoomworks — beefing up procurement services like integration, digital transformation:Pierre Mitchellsaid : I wouldn't worry too much Peter. Supply markets will almost always find a way to innovate, and ther...