Claritum

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Claritum’s top ten 2021 predictions for Procurement. B2B Marketplaces, where you can create your own networked members area within a public platform, will become more prevalent. To combat issues of trading during significant supply chain disruptions. Medium sized organisations will use procurement automation and buyer portals in the cloud, to address concerns of spend management, remote working and data security.

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Predictive Analytics Software Optimal Sourcing Predictive Analytics Procurement 41

Claritum

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Bath, UK (November 19, 2020) – Claritum, a provider of cloud-based spend management solutions, today announced that Claritum has attained accreditation to the Made in Britain organisation. “Claritum is proud to be UK owned and to develop all of our products in the UK,” said Prof. Richard Hillum, Executive Chairman at Claritum. “To get recognition of this and to be able to show this through this recognition was important to us.”.

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Claritum

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

How can you achieve procurement best practice in your organization? In this article we look at what we think are the 5 most important steps towards effective eProcurement. Image of the 5 Steps to best practice Visibility, Control, Efficiencies, Savings and Creating value. Read the article at claritum.com. Visibility. visibilityStep 1 is to get good spend visibility and understand what you are buying and how much you are spending across all your spend categories.

Optimal Sourcing 41

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Claritum

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Introduction. Grouped item fulfilment against a sales order is a common challenge across many sectors. With the need to link items together to form a kit or assembly. This may be a few items that need to be shipped together or it may be many individual components that form a complete assembly. However, often automation is ignored as being too expensive or complex for small and medium-sized organisations.

Groups 41

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Claritum

JULY 22, 2020

Introduction. “Vendor - neutral describes a state in which no one vendor can control the definition, revision or distribution of a specification.” Gartner. Allowing for broad compatibility and interchangeability of vendors and technology. Why Does it Matter? Avoid Vendor Lock-In. Relationships with vendors are important, however if this results in the vendor being specified, as opposed to the requirement, this is not a good result.

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Claritum

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Canon Business Services extends Claritum contract for an additional 3 years. Bath, UK (December 18th, 2019) – Claritum, a provider of cloud based spend management solutions, today announced that Canon Business Services has extended their contract with Claritum for a further 3 years. “Canon has been a Claritum customer since 2004 and their continued use of Claritum is a confirmation of our ability to deliver value to our customers over extended periods.” said Prof.

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Case Study Study Procurement Quality 32

Claritum

JANUARY 8, 2020

Introduction. This article looks at the use of business to business orchestrated. Marketplaces and online catalogues to mitigate the people factor of any. procurement process. People govern the success or failure of any. procurement process automation. By orchestrated, we mean that the process of establishing and. managing suppliers within the Marketplace is totally under the control. of the organisation’s Procurement team.

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Purchasing Skills Negotiating Skills Procurement Solutions Negotiate Pricing 32

Claritum

JANUARY 16, 2020

Bath, UK (January 16th, 2020) – Claritum, a provider of cloud based spend management solutions, today announced that Claritum has been recognised by Bath Life Awards as a rapidly growing company in the technology and innovation space. "It is fantastic news to gain recognition as a local growing company." said Prof. Richard Hillum, Executive Chairman at Claritum.

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Claritum

JANUARY 23, 2020

Bath, UK (Jan 22, 2020) – Claritum, a provider of cloud based spend management solutions, today announced further expansion in the team. “Paul is a key new hire to the Claritum team.” said Prof. Richard Hillum, Executive Chairman at Claritum. “Paul joining the Sales team to engage in managing our new business growth.”. Paul joins the Claritum Sales team.

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Claritum

JANUARY 29, 2020

5 steps for 2020 procurement dashboard vision. Why build procurement dashboards? If you spend a lot of your time analysing detailed data feeds and generating summary reports. Trying to make sense of the information you get from different sources such as excel spreadsheets, ERP systems, accounting software, databases and manual forms. Then you could benefit from building procurement dashboards.

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Analytics Software Analytics Procurement Just-in-Time 32

Claritum

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

1: Introduction. Sourcing of bespoke requirements needs to be managed effectively within an Organisation. Problems can arise when bespoke requirements are purchased directly by employees throughout the organisation or just “passed through” by overworked buyers who have no time to deal with the suppliers. This can result in products and services being purchased across the organisation with no consistency of supply, sustainability or quality.

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Claritum

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Bath, UK (Feb 11, 2020) – Claritum, a provider of cloud-based spend management solutions, is delighted to announce that, in line with the growth strategy, the company will be opening an office at the Warwick Science Park. This will be a central base for international sales teams and an additional Research and Development base, where we can work in the proximity of Warwick Universities AI and Data Science departments.

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Procurement Analytics Procurement Solutions Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Analytics Software 32

Claritum

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

when should I use it? And what challenges will I face? 1: Introduction. Project-based procurement occurs when there is a specific project activity and goal. This may be a project that repeats at regular intervals or it may be a one-off project. The project could include volume purchases, small purchase volumes, standard items, specification of unique one-off items and tailoring of items based on individual projects.

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Claritum

MARCH 3, 2020

Claritum processes its first transaction in Chinese. Bath, UK (March 3, 2020) – Claritum, a provider of cloud-based spend management solutions, today announced that the Claritum platform had processed the first of many transactions using a Chinese language (Mandarin) interface and Chinese Yuan as the currency. With the Claritum system being accessible worldwide, from the Cloud, we see many different languages being used to transact purchases.

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Claritum

MARCH 10, 2020

When should I use it? And what challenges will I face? Introduction. This is the third article in a series. The first two articles covering Bespoke Procurement and Project-based procurement. Category procurement is perhaps the most common break down for. Procurement teams and certainly is the most focused on in terms of. written articles. Often these articles are focused on specific. categories and their respective challenges.

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Claritum

APRIL 15, 2020

Bath, UK (April 15, 2020) – First 3 weeks of lockdown completed. The team at Claritum is functioning well from home. All Claritum systems have remained operational and our customers continue to process orders and supply the needs of their customers. Recent, Covid-19 related orders, processed by Claritum’s system have included identity cards for key workers, sanitisers, face masks, antiseptic wipes, nursing intensive care process documents, updated staff handbooks and posters/signs.

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Claritum

APRIL 24, 2020

Bath, UK (Apr 24, 2020) – Claritum, a provider of cloud based spend management solutions, today announced the addition of Kevin into the team. Kevin joins Claritum’s engineering team, as we continue to build up our core development team. “It’s great to welcome Kevin.” said Prof. Richard Hillum, Executive Chairman at Claritum. “As we grow, we need to continue to invest in our engineering team to support our innovation.”.

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Warehousing Procurement Solutions Innovation Quality 32

Claritum

MAY 11, 2020

Introduction. This article explores the use of technology to provide a platform for Buyers and Sellers to interact during a major disruption resulting in. the absence of face to face or event-based exploration of partnerships. Proposing that an automated solution, orientated towards the. engagement of potential partners in the buying and supplying ecosystem, is essential if we are to ensure our businesses are resilient to global. events, such as a pandemic.

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Claritum

JUNE 25, 2020

Bath, UK (Jun 26, 2020) – Claritum, a provider of cloud based spend management solutions, today announced the company has been shortlisted for two awards for the Insider South West Global Growth Awards. “Insider’s South West Global Growth Awards celebrate the success of the region’s companies trading in overseas territories.” said Prof. Richard Hillum, Executive Chairman at Claritum.

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Claritum

JULY 13, 2020

Introduction. There is an ever-increasing emphasis on the need to mitigate risk associated with non-employee workforces. The unpredictable economic environment requiring organisations to readily increase or decrease resources. Procuring and managing costs associated with these resources is typically handled in a very manual fashion. Spreadsheets and emails often being the tools employed.

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Claritum

JULY 22, 2020

Introduction. “Vendor - neutral describes a state in which no one vendor can control the definition, revision or distribution of a specification.” Gartner. Allowing for broad compatibility and interchangeability of vendors and technology. Why Does it Matter? Avoid Vendor Lock-In. Relationships with vendors are important, however if this results in the vendor being specified, as opposed to the requirement, this is not a good result.

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Negotiating Skills Negotiate Pricing Purchasing Skills Buyer Training 32

Claritum

JULY 30, 2020

Bath, UK (Jul 30, 2020) – Claritum, a provider of cloud-based spend management solutions, today announced the company hosted its first vertical sector Webinar, focused on Universities. The webinar entitled “Intelligent Procurement for Universities” was a joint webinar with Data 3. On the webinar, we shared our perspective on the daily adversities that Universities face, whilst managing annual cutbacks on funding.

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Claritum

AUGUST 18, 2020

Remotely Trade with Claritum's Buy & Sell Ecosystem for Organisations Bath, UK (Aug 20, 2020) – Claritum, a provider of cloud-based spend management solutions, today announced the launch of new functionality that enables organisations to leverage a buying and selling ecosystem to trade remotely. “With the Claritum system being used to manage interactions and transactions with many vendors.” said Prof.

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Claritum

AUGUST 18, 2020

Claritum website shortlisted for a creative award Bath, UK (August 18, 2020) – Claritum, a provider of cloud-based spend management solutions, today announced that the Claritum website has been shortlisted for a creative award. “Claritum continues to grow and profile within the Procurement field,” said Prof. Richard Hillum, Executive Chairman at Claritum.

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Claritum

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The importance of Buyer Portals. Introduction. Difficulties with buying within your organisation are often associated with the use of inappropriate user-facing technology. Fundamentally it is because there is no Buyer Portal. There is a “purchasing system” and a “process”, however, there is no user-centric access to this. This is what a Buyer Portal provides – it is the user-friendly way of presenting a buying process.

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Claritum

MAY 11, 2020

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Contents. 1. Introduction. 2. Trading During a Pandemic. 3. A Buyer/Seller Ecosystem. 4. The Ecosystem Capabilities. 5. Do I have the tools I need? 6. Summary. 1 Introduction. This article explores the use of technology to provide a platform for Buyers and Sellers to interact during a major disruption resulting in the absence of face to face or event-based exploration of partnerships.

Supply Chain Network Software 41

Supply Chain Network Software Procurement Solutions How To Eliminating Excel in Purchasing 41

Claritum

APRIL 24, 2020

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Bath, UK (Apr 24, 2020) – Claritum, a provider of cloud based spend management solutions, today announced the addition of Kevin into the team. Kevin joins Claritum’s engineering team, as we continue to build up our core development team. “It’s great to welcome Kevin.” said Prof. Richard Hillum, Executive Chairman at Claritum.

Procurement Solutions 41

Procurement Solutions Warehousing Innovation Procurement 41

Claritum

APRIL 20, 2020

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Bath, UK (April 15, 2020) – First 3 weeks of lockdown completed. The team at Claritum is functioning well from home. All Claritum systems have remained operational and our customers continue to process orders and supply the needs of their customers. Recent, Covid-19 related orders, processed by Claritum’s system have included identity cards for key workers, nursing process documents, staff handbooks and posters/signs.

Handbook 47

Handbook Supply Chain Planning Software Case Study Guidelines 47

Claritum

MARCH 10, 2020

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. when should I use it? And what challenges will I face? Contents. 1. Introduction. 2. The Strategic Nature of Focusing on a Category. 3. Typical Steps Associated with Category Purchasing. 4. Project and Category Procurement Differences. 5. Category-based Procurement Examples. 6. The Inherent Challenges of Category-based Procurement. 7.

Procurement Solutions 41

Procurement Solutions Procurement Analytics Procurement Purchasing Skills 41

Claritum

MARCH 3, 2020

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Claritum processes its first transaction in Chinese. Bath, UK (March 3, 2020) – Claritum, a provider of cloud-based spend management solutions, today announced that the Claritum platform had processed the first of many transactions using a Chinese language (Mandarin) interface and Chinese Yuan as the currency. With the Claritum system being accessible worldwide, from the Cloud, we see many different languages being used to transact purchases.

Procurement Solutions 47

Procurement Solutions Currency Case Study Asia 47

Claritum

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. when should I use it? And what challenges will I face? Contents. 1. Introduction. 2. Typical steps associated with a project purchasing process. 3. Project and Category Procurement Differences. 4. Table of the key differences between Project and Category based procurement. 5. Types of activity suitable for Project based procurement. 6.

Manufacturing Procurement 41

Manufacturing Procurement Procurement Solutions Optimal Sourcing Purchasing Skills 41

Claritum

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Bath, UK (Feb 11, 2020) – Claritum, a provider of cloud-based spend management solutions, is delighted to announce that, in line with the growth strategy, the company will be opening an office at the Warwick Science Park. This will be a central base for international sales teams and an additional Research and Development base, where we can work in the proximity of Warwick Universities AI and Data Science departments.

Procurement Analytics 47

Procurement Analytics Procurement Solutions Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Analytics Software 47

Claritum

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Contents. 1. Introduction. 2. Bespoke requirements - key sourcing issues. 3. Sourcing Bespoke requirements the right way. 4. Claritum’s solution for bespoke procurement. 1 Introduction. Sourcing of bespoke requirements needs to be managed effectively within an Organisation. Problems can arise when bespoke requirements are purchased directly by employees throughout the organisation or just “passed through” by overworked buyers who have no time to deal with the

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Procurement Solutions Purchasing Skills Supply Chain Design Software Optimal Sourcing 47

Claritum

JANUARY 29, 2020

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Contents. Follow our 5 steps for 2020 procurement dashboard vision. Step 1. Identify your key information. Step 2. Choose your reporting tools. Step 3. Ensure accuracy of transactional data. Step 4. Create visual Impact and agree level of detail. Step 5. Define access levels and sharing. Follow our 5 steps for 2020 procurement dashboard vision.

Analytics Software 47

Analytics Software Analytics Procurement Case Study 47

Claritum

JANUARY 23, 2020

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Bath, UK (Jan 22, 2020) – Claritum, a provider of cloud based spend management solutions, today announced further expansion in the team. “David and Paul are two key new hires to the Claritum team.” said Prof. Richard Hillum, Executive Chairman at Claritum. “David joining our development team, to bring additional data analytics focus, and Paul joining the Sales team to engage in new business growth.”.

Procurement Analytics 41

Procurement Analytics Procurement Solutions Purchasing Skills Analytics Software 41

Claritum

JANUARY 16, 2020

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Bath, UK (January 16th, 2020) – Claritum, a provider of cloud based spend management solutions, today announced that Claritum has been recognised by Bath Life Awards as a rapidly growing company in the technology and innovation space. “It is fantastic news to gain recognition as a local growing company.” said Prof.

Innovation 32

Innovation Government Procurement Company 32

Claritum

JANUARY 8, 2020

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Contents. 1. Introduction. 2. How people can influence success. 3. Procurement's influence with an orchestrated Marketplace. 4. Some process timings for overall eProcurement. 5. Summary. 1 Introduction. This article looks at the use of business to business orchestrated Marketplaces and online catalogues to mitigate the people factor of any procurement process.

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