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Procure-to-Pay vs. Intake-to-Pay: What You Need to Know

Precoro

The procurement landscape is ever changing, and recently, in contrast to the traditional procure-to-pay platforms, we have seen the emergence of a new type of software solution, intake-to-pay, which is marketed as a more comprehensive solution. But hold on: are we sure that wasn't all possible with procure-to-pay, anyway?

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Free PO Software vs. Paid Software

Precoro

As a company slowly grows, purchase management becomes more and more complicated. The need to manually create, store, manage, and analyze the ever-growing purchase orders and all associated documents can be pretty cumbersome. Plus, find a comparison table of some free purchase order software and paid programs.

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Parts Are Not Parts

Supply Chain Shaman

For many, mandating SAP is job security for the IT implementation team. Bonuses and incentives align with functions and are often counter productive to driving supply chain excellence. PFEP optimizes the policies that define how to procure each part. Cross Site Analytics. Organizational alignment is an issue.

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Will the Downturn Signal an Upturn?

Supply Chain Shaman

Many organizations will play the shell game of reporting forecast error so that the numbers look better: either calculating the forecast at a higher level in the forecast hierarchy (not at the item level) or reporting the data as a Weighted Mean Absolute Error. This gives supply chain leaders a false sense of security.

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How Capital City eliminated duplicate payments with procurement automation

Precoro

With over 1,000 students, the school purchases a lot of supplies for students as well as office supplies for the administration. We had the chance to discuss the school's initial approach to procurement compared to its new, automated process using software with Caroline Hickey, Business Associate at CCPCS.

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5 Reasons why eAuctions Drive Better Savings

SCMDOJO

eAuctions are online real-time dynamic discussions between one purchasing organization and a group of pre-qualified vendors competing for the purchaser’s trade. Throughout a genuine and collaborative cooperation with business vendors, they produce innovative approaches to current procurement difficulties.

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Coronavirus Series – Inventory Management Challenges & Solutions

EazyStock

The era of using spreadsheets to run reports and analyze data is over. Taking all these variables into account, reorder points and quantities are set, and a daily list of recommended orders is produced to feed back into your ERP to create purchase orders. It’s now time that inventory management teams did the same.