{"id":2911,"date":"2010-08-11T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2010\/08\/11\/whitepaper-wednesday-supplier-management-software\/"},"modified":"2023-08-01T14:56:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T18:56:21","slug":"whitepaper-wednesday-supplier-management-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/whitepaper-wednesday-supplier-management-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitepaper Wednesday &#8211; Supplier Management Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to another installment of Whitepaper Wednesday here on the Purchasing Certification Blog. Today, I\u2019ll be reviewing a whitepaper entitled \u201cLeveraging Supplier Management Platforms for Multiple Goals: Risk Reduction, Supplier Diversity and CSR\u201d from Spend Matters.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n<p>This whitepaper provides a relatively quick glimpse into the evolution of how procurement departments have used technology to collect information from and interface with their supply bases. It begins by describing how these departments typically started experimenting with very targeted technologies, such as solutions just to allow suppliers to self-register with the company or software designed only to track the diversity status of suppliers.<\/p>\n<p>The whitepaper reports that the trend is now moving to single solutions combining multiple purposes for supplier information, saying that \u201ccompanies are now beginning to turn to solution providers to support a range of individual initiatives and are starting to do so as part of a single, more integrated supplier management effort \u2013 rather than as silo-driven practices and technology deployments.\u201d It then gives examples of specific technology vendors that have broadened their solutions over the years: Aravo Solutions, AECSoft, CVM Solutions, and Open Ratings. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.metfoods.com\/xanax-alprazolam-online\/\">metfoods.com<\/a>) <\/p>\n<p>The whitepaper claims that a byproduct of this shift to a more unified approach to managing supplier information is that companies taking this unified approach experience a \u201cshift in overall supplier oversight from a mindset of visibility to one of transparency.\u201d Unfortunately, the whitepaper does not define the difference between visibility and transparency, though the reader can assume that the author means that the procurement organization will have access to a single hub for accurate, up-to-the-minute details on all important supplier data from financial status to performance metrics and more.<\/p>\n<p>The whitepaper concludes with descriptions of three discrete components of today\u2019s modern supplier information management systems: Supplier Diversity, Supplier Risk Reduction and Risk Management, and Corporate Social Responsibility. While the whitepaper itself doesn\u2019t share much about the capabilities the various technology vendors offer, the good news is that the Spend Matters blog does provide detailed coverage of some of the vendor offerings in the market. In particular, you may want to check out Spend Matters\u2019 coverage of Aravo and CVM here (http:\/\/www.spendmatters.com\/index.cfm\/2009\/5\/7\/Aravo-and-CVM-Solutions-Bring-Supply-Risk-Solutions-to-Market) and AECSoft here (http:\/\/www.spendmatters.com\/index.cfm\/2008\/10\/30\/AECSoft\u2013Another-Supplier-Diversity-Vendor-Branches-Out-Part-2).<\/p>\n<p>For the whitepaper itself, you can download your own copy from Spend Matters\u2019 website (registration required).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to another installment of Whitepaper Wednesday here on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Whitepaper Wednesday - Supplier Management Software - Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/whitepaper-wednesday-supplier-management-software\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Whitepaper Wednesday - Supplier Management Software - Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Welcome back to another installment of Whitepaper Wednesday here on [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/whitepaper-wednesday-supplier-management-software\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NextLevelPurchasing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-08-11T17:51:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-01T18:56:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/11\/nlpa-images-115.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1067\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Galo Matagay\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@nextlevelpurch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@nextlevelpurch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Galo Matagay\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/whitepaper-wednesday-supplier-management-software\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/whitepaper-wednesday-supplier-management-software\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Galo Matagay\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/#\/schema\/person\/72d094fab77892483dfa6e061cb27eaa\"},\"headline\":\"Whitepaper Wednesday &#8211; 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