Federal News Network

MARCH 26, 2025

And at some agencies, best-in-class contracting is still growing by significant percentages, according to dashboard analyses of the Federal Procurement Data System maintained by the General Services Administration. In 2020, the government logged $13.2 billion in cost avoidances related to category management; that figure had risen to $16.9

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ivalua

JUNE 29, 2020

According to OECD and National Health Expenditure data, US healthcare spending per person was approx $10,224 in 2017. According to 2019 Definitive Healthcare data, U.S. Across this supply chain there is typically a lack of visibility due to siloed information and data. The only way to really understand that is data.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Redwood, CA, 20th December 2021 – Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, today announced that Canada’s largest co-operative, Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL), has gone live with its source-to-contract solution which includes a seamless integration to TealBook, the leading supplier data foundation.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

They may not consider potential issues of integrations, supplier onboarding, supply chain data management, change management and system optimization, all of which add to complexity and costs. Sustainable master data management and governance: As much as 55% of projects fail due to data management issues.

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Supply Chain Management Total Cost of Ownership Warehouse 88

ivalua

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Engaging suppliers in strategic sourcing events and collaborative cost improvement efforts will ensure that purchased component costs are appropriate to achieve targeted gross margins. Maturity and Decline: Drive Ongoing Innovation and Maximize Margins.

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Supplier Strategic Sourcing Manufacturing Demand 56

Bonfire

APRIL 3, 2023

Meanwhile, purpose-built procurement software collects feedback from stakeholders and gives you real-time data and insights to help you monitor supplier performance and ensure compliance. No support for strategic sourcing: ERP systems don‘t offer support for strategic sourcing, which is critical for optimizing spend and driving savings.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Offering customers a market leading source-to-pay platform coupled with powerful supplier discovery, diversity and data enrichment from Tealbook. the ‘Trusted Source of Supplier Data’ today announced a new partnership to provide a seamless experience between Ivalua’s Source-to-Pay Platform and Tealbook’s Supplier Intelligence Platform.

Supplier 11

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ivalua

JULY 21, 2021

“Partnering with Consus Global and our successful deployment of Ivalua will accelerate our progress in supply chain optimization at REV Group by applying a powerful toolset of data, supplier management, and competitive bidding capabilities to our team,” says Rob Vislosky, Chief Supply Officer of REV Group. “We

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Supply Chain Efficiency Strategic Sourcing Competitive Bidding 52

FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In his role he works closely with multiple government agencies to address their unique enterprise and mission enabling communications requirements, as well as commercial industry partners to identify capabilities and emerging technologies to address customers’ mobility and SATCOM requirements.

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ivalua

APRIL 1, 2019

It is either a data input, such as what we gather and use in spend analysis, or it is a process by-product, such as the information we gather from prospective suppliers during strategic sourcing. When: Moving the Point of Data Collection. It does not tell us much about the suppliers.

Supplier 53

Supplier Management Supply Chain Strategic Sourcing 53

ivalua

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Our customers have seen anywhere between 4-24% cost reduction across a portfolio of initiatives including reduction in procure to pay (P2P) cycle time, increased transparency in the complete procurement life cycle, access to alternate local and global suppliers and effective ways of managing supply chain risks.

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Supply Chain Strategic Sourcing Supplier Collaboration 8

ivalua

AUGUST 17, 2022

O-I Glass has chosen Ivalua after assessing technology and process gaps related to strategic sourcing, supplier relationship management, category management, vendor quality, sustainability, and compliance.

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Buying Process Supplier IT Supply Chain 52

ivalua

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Services organizations highlight confidential data access, data privacy, and cloud/data security as the highest-probability, highest impact risk types (figure 2). According to 70% of respondents, the number one risk assessment criteria within Services is supplier access to sensitive data.

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ivalua

JANUARY 21, 2020

Modernization : Whether large or small, all states are dealing with the mounting technical debt that comes from managing decades old systems that don’t enable strategic initiatives or the sharing of data, provide a poor user experience, and are prone to security vulnerabilities.

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Procurement Transparency Data Strategic Sourcing 49

ivalua

MAY 15, 2020

Back to the marketplace – JLL chose Ivalua because of the cultural fit between the firms as well as the strong focus on customer experience, innovation , and data , which matched the JLL philosophy. Simplification of systems and tools was a key part of the programme. Rogers had no less than 10 (!)

Procurement 52

Procurement Supply Chain Strategic Sourcing Category Management 52

ivalua

APRIL 17, 2023

To maximize your software efficiency and ensure streamlined processes with accurate data, integration is key! At Ivalua, we understand the importance of having a single source of truth for your data. Is your data separate from other customer data in the cloud? As you scale, how secure is your solution offering?

Public Procurement 52

Public Procurement Procurement Transparency Supplier 52

ivalua

JANUARY 31, 2022

Last year, 62% of enterprises that made an investment in supply management technology over the past two years took the suite-based approach (strategic sourcing suite or full Source-to Settle suites. 5 Procurement Increasing Its Focus on and Use of Data.

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Procurement Supply Chain Supplier Consumer Demands 52

ivalua

APRIL 19, 2022

Director Strategic Sourcing Digital & Functional Transformation, . This year, we’ve invited a wide array of industry thought leaders to join 6 expert panels covering Data Integrity, Sourcing Optimization, Sustainable Procurement, Finance Procurement, Public Procurement, and Federal Procurement. . Breakout Sessions.

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ivalua

AUGUST 16, 2021

Establish the strategic sourcing program objectives and identify the owners of these objectives. Define the attributes to be measured (including data sources) for each supplier life-cycle phase. These processes rely upon different systems (if any at all) and utilize numerous and disconnected sources of data.

Supplier 52

Supplier Management Supply Chain Risk Management 52

FedInsider

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

It must be compliant, secure data in transit, and provide the throughput, latency and reliability needed at the edge. Chris Thomas, technical strategist at Dell Technologies, said his team takes a data- centric approach to helping customers adopt 5G so the network can be tailored to support specific needs, use cases and innovative levels.

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Networking E-procurement Engineering Capacity 97

ivalua

MARCH 14, 2019

But now with strategic sourcing and category management, the process has become much easier to track, monitor and control. Add sourcing workflow to the mix, and introduce machine learning that can link directly to the supplier and track savings, then you can start to see where the science comes in.

Procurement 40

Procurement IT Purchasing Supply Chain 40

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

professional secrecy, access to information and data, protection of personal data)”. There is a focus on cloud services, for instance – the regulators are rightly worried about the confidentiality, security and integrity of sensitive and vital financial data that could be (as we might say) “floating around” in the cloud! .

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Procurement Supplier Management Buyers 56

ivalua

AUGUST 17, 2021

There are, in fact different phases of procurement value creation that tie into the Source-to-Pay process: . Identifying Value , is where procurement teams leverage spend data and spend analysis to understand trends in spend and identify opportunities and develop category management strategies. . What is Indirect Procurement?

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Procurement Supply Chain E-procurement Procurement Team 52

ivalua

MARCH 4, 2016

Recently I attended a conference for Strategic Sourcing in the medical device manufacturing sector. What if you could bring fact-based data to the table that helped stakeholders short-cut steps in making good and timely decisions?

Supply Chain 40

Supply Chain Supplier Manufacturing Strategic Sourcing 40

ivalua

MARCH 15, 2016

Having fact –based discussions that are anchored with solid historical data is crucial in defining what a win/win should, and can, look like. None of these will resolve confusion in real-time and multiple hours are lost waiting for up-to-date data from colleagues. Do not let bad data be your obstacle. Talking is critical.

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Supply Chain Supplier Real-time Visibility Negotiation 40

ivalua

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The second, authored by Andrew Bartels and published on December 18, is The Forrester Wave™: Source-To-Contract Suites, Q4 2019. It covers spend analysis, sourcing, contract management and supplier risk and performance management (SRPM), similar in scope to Gartner’s Strategic Sourcing Application Suites Magic Quadrant.

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Supplier Eprocurement E-procurement Integration 59

The Coalition for Government Procurement

MAY 13, 2024

Day One Speakers Keynote Speakers: Christine Harada , Senior Advisor, OFPP, OMB Moshe Schwartz , President, Etherton and Associates Panelists: Bonnie Evangelista , Acting Deputy Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer for Acquisitions, DoD Polly Hall , Senior Advisor to the Chief Procurement Officer, DHS Udaya Patnaik , Chief Innovation (..)

Supply Chain 59

Supply Chain Procurement Participation Professional Services 59

ivalua

MAY 6, 2020

The second, authored by Andrew Bartels and published on December 18, is The Forrester Wave : Source-To-Contract Suites, Q4 2019. It covers spend analysis , sourcing, contract management and supplier risk and performance management (SRPM), similar in scope to Gartner’s Strategic Sourcing Application Suites Magic Quadrant.

Supplier 52

Supplier Eprocurement E-procurement Integration 52

ivalua

JUNE 1, 2022

According to Sajid Kunnummal, Vice President and CPO at Navistar, supply chain data visibility is the number one driving force behind creating resiliency. “It Strategic sourcing professionals may end up doing tactical work, as well. Simplify approvals with clearly defined roles and responsibilities.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Supplier Procurement Team Freight 52

ivalua

MARCH 16, 2021

According to Sajid Kunnummal, Vice President and CPO at Navistar, supply chain data visibility is the number one driving force behind creating resiliency. “It Strategic sourcing professionals may end up doing tactical work, as well. Simplify approvals with clearly defined roles and responsibilities.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Manufacturing Supplier Procurement Team 52

ivalua

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

If you are getting started, you are likely looking to start with technology to address a specific process ( Strategic Sourcing or P2P for example). That means not just the workflow (which demos nicely in sales meetings to mask deficiencies created by acquisitions), but also at the data level and UI. Plan to avoid those.

Procurement 40

Procurement Supplier Automotive Strategic Sourcing 40

ivalua

MAY 1, 2020

The total costs, in terms of human lives, disrupted supply chains, ruined businesses and GDP impact, are still just projections in the array of charts presented daily by statisticians and data modelers. And 91% of advanced organizations managed all spend via category management and strategic sourcing processes vs. 16% of beginners.

Supply Chain 40

Supply Chain Management Supplier E-procurement 40

Federal News Network

AUGUST 1, 2024

She said the challenge was how to access the CPARs system where the data lives. The pilot only used “fake” or anonymized data because of security and privacy concerns. The data could help contracting officers make better buying decisions but also help companies improve their chances of winning.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Currently, there are “more than 100 categories of CUI, ranging from technical weapon system data to historic properties and death records.” However, a recent report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) highlighted the importance of improving data collection in these spaces.

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Price Supply Chain Logistics Procurement 52

The Coalition for Government Procurement

JANUARY 16, 2025

OMB Reports Significant Improvement of Federal Websites in 2024 Nextgov reported on findings from the Office of Management and Budgets (OMB) data snapshot highlighting improvements in the publics experience with government websites. The data was released as part of the White Houses push to improve customer experience.

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Procurement Thresholds Professional Services Efficiency 40

The Coalition for Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The four priorities of the BCI include: Leveraging Data Across Federal Agencies to Get Lower Prices and Better Terms; Negotiating Common Enterprise-Wide Software Licenses; Saving Money and Avoiding Waste by Getting Contract Requirements Right the First Time; and Getting Better Value from Sole Source and Other High-Risk Contracts.

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E-procurement Supply Chain Telecommunication Contract 52