Organizations today and in the future will have to gain more visibility into their supplier information. Data is coming from everywhere – spend, supplier contracts, and other third-party information – and it can overwhelm procurement departments. Part of building a third party risk management strategy (TPRM) includes gaining visibility into where the risk is coming from, and building a strategy to help mitigate it.
Considering the challenges facing modern business, CLM continues to increase in importance across the wider enterprise. Contract management technology may very well be the unsung hero of the procurement technology landscape. It has been steadily improving for two decades, from straight document storage, to metadata and redlining, to today’s full enterprise contract lifecycle management (CLM) solutions. […]
The challenges and solutions of effective TPRM. Organizations today and in the future will have to gain more visibility into their supplier information. Data is coming from everywhere – spend, supplier contracts, and other third-party information – and it can overwhelm procurement departments. Part of building a third party risk management strategy (TPRM) includes gaining […]
Optimizing source-to-contract means focusing on wider business needs. In Part 1 of this two-part blog we addressed the initial approach of S2C. Our viewpoint is, that while S2C is often focused on procurement as the primary users of the technology, decisions around adopting the components — such as sourcing, contract management and supplier management — […]
To be effective at source-to-contract (S2C), procurement organizations must be able to properly align data and processes with automation. Often referred to as upstream procurement, “source-to-contract” defines the approaches for how to connect the efforts related to spend analysis, sourcing, contract management and supplier management. At its most basic, these processes encompass all the pre-requisites […]
