What does it mean to have a ‘digital supply chain’? Here we look at some real-world examples in the areas of supplier management, field service, and MRO (Maintenance, Repair, and Operations).
Sourcing and Procurement
Solutions, practices, policies, processes related to sourcing and procurement.
SAP Concur: Consumerization at Work
SAP Concur’s products in Travel, Expense, and Invoice are good examples of how enterprise software is being ‘consumerized’ to encourage use by employees who have increasingly higher UX expectations.
Outcome-based Business Models for Enterprise Software
A few pioneering enterprise software solution providers offer pricing and business models based on achieving specific outcomes for their clients, rather than just charging for software.
Healthy Growth and Innovations Highlighted at Ariba Live
SAP Ariba is getting serious about managing direct materials spend, as well as innovating in areas such as machine learning, blockchain, integrating with other networks, and more. We explore these and other highlights from this year’s Ariba Live conference.
Concur’s Relentless Quest for the Perfect Trip
Highlights from Fusion, Concur’s annual conference, including Risk Messaging, Hipmunk’s travel bot (Hello Hipmunk), Concur’s SMB business, and more.
Tradeshift’s Disruptive Potential
Tradeshift certainly has no shortage of ambition and big ideas. They started off as an invoice and payables automation network, then a procure-to-pay solution, then an extensible buy-side platform for source-to-pay and more. Now they are rolling out a platform providing on-demand, combination machine learning/AI/human concierge skilled services–initially for T&E procurement, but immediately after that for a much broader set of BPO services and much more.
PrimeRevenue Partnership Delivers New Supply Chain Finance Capabilities for Ariba
Ariba’s recently announced partnership with PrimeRevenue provides customers with a multi-funder supply chain finance capability, integrated into the Ariba platform.
Concur-SAP Symbiosis
How Concur is both changing SAP and leveraging SAP’s strengths.
Reinvention at SAP Ariba
At SAP Ariba Live, we saw big changes in product architecture, innovation speed & focus, openness, UI/UX, agile development cadence, and more.
Digital Transaction Management for Procurement
Digital Transaction Management (DTM) has profound implications for procurement. Here are some key lessons learned during sessions on this at Dreamforce 2015 and DocuSign’s Procurement Advisory Council.
GT Nexus Bridges 2015
Insights and updates from the GT Nexus user conference.