Collaborative partners

Headline Partner

Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world’s most ambitious change makers define the future. We work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition and redefine industries.

Inspire Partners

Focal Point is an intake-to-outcome SaaS solution that aggregates data across existing and disparate ERP & S2P solutions into one real-time command dashboard. Our software allows organizations to maximize the value of every dollar spent on third parties while ensuring the safety and security of transactions. Experience increased visibility and control across intake & approvals, sourcing project management, procurement process control, spend under management and real-time savings tracking. With real-time reporting and automatic project stakeholder management, procurement leaders can spend more time maximizing organizational benefits beyond just cost savings. Founded, designed, and developed by seasoned CPOs and practitioners to improve the lives of CPOs and practitioners.

Sapience simple-to-deploy SaaS platform automates workday data collection and analysis to transform contingent workforce spend. With modern business intelligence and intuitive analytics, empowered leaders can explore data insights and interactive visualizations that pinpoint cost reduction and capacity optimization opportunities. Companies quickly gain a sustainable negotiation advantage over suppliers, shutdown spend leakage attributed to a long-standing receipt of goods gap, and consistently reduce cost by 30%+. If you want to favorably impact your bottom line with zero top line risk, Sapience will show you the path.

Ideate Partners

Craft empowers organizations to strengthen their global supply chains. Our advanced data fabric and risk mitigation engine provides 360-degree visibility to quickly explore and evaluate suppliers, AI-driven insights to minimize disruptions, and collaborative tools to optimize supply chain strategies. With Craft, organizations can confidently navigate regulatory environments, uphold ethics, and drive business continuity and growth.

At Productiv, we have a vision of bringing teams together through the power of data. That’s why we created the Productiv SaaS Intelligence™ platform — the only way your entire organization can align and get equal access to trusted data to proactively govern, optimize spend and drive operational efficiency while increasing employee engagement across SaaS applications. This employee-centric, data-driven approach combines billions of employee app usage data-points with vendor contract and organizational data, to provide the most comprehensive view of their SaaS applications.

The Gap Partnership is a management consultancy specialising in negotiation. We help organisations build a high-performing negotiation culture that drives profitability, increases efficiency and reduces cost. We partner with clients to tackle their most critical commercial challenges including complex procurement models, supply chain management, cost price increases, and sustainability. Our portfolio of negotiation solutions includes consulting, capability development, and a range of digital products. We have recently launched a powerful online end- to-end negotiation toolkit for procurement professionals. The Gap Partnership are proud to be thought leaders in our field. We produce a range of insight including proprietary research, a magazine, podcast series, articles, blogs and vlogs.

Tonkean is the world’s first totally customizable process experience platform. With Tonkean, you can create intelligent, personalized automations that integrate with every app or system your organization uses. You can cultivate an employee experience that democratizes access to innovative technologies traditionally only available to highly trained developers. You can enable employees to focus more fully on high-value tasks, because you can enable them to automate low-value tasks. And you can design processes that employees are guaranteed to adopt and benefit from no matter their technical acumen, because Tonkean meets employees where they are—eliminating the need for change management—and is 100% no-code.

Welcome Drinks Partner

Certa’s SaaS platform helps firms like MasTec, Indeed, Uber, and Box with global third party compliance, risk management and ESG. Certa provides a single place to manage all third parties globally, improves onboarding time by up to 80%, with 100% compliance and risk management, while freeing up time to work on more strategic projects. Certa’s drag and drop no-code studio and 120+ ready-made integrations enable a single source of truth for updated third party data. Certa has been recognized as a Top 50 Procurement Providers to Watch in 2022 by Spend Matters, and a Representative Vendor in Gartner’s 2022 Market Guide for Third Party Risk Management Solutions and IT Vendor Risk Management Solutions. In addition, Certa was shortlisted in the 2023 World Procurement Awards in the Procurement Technology Provider category, and as a finalist at DPW Amsterdam 2022. Certa’s Founder and CEO Jag Lamba was a winner of the 2023 Supply and Demand Chain Executive Pros to Know Award.

Collaborate Partners

C2FO is the world’s largest platform for working capital. We serve over one million businesses representing $10.5 trillion in annual sales across more than 180 countries. Our online platform connects more than $110 billion of daily accounts payable and accounts receivable. Whether you need working capital or have excess working capital, Name Your Rate™, and the C2FO platform will match your request in seconds. You can accelerate or extend AP or AR on demand, providing you, your customers and your suppliers greater control over cash flow. You can also utilize AR financing and other data-driven funding options.

graphiteConnect is a supplier management platform designed to simplify and streamline the entire procurement process from onboarding to risk management. The powerful Graphite network is the backbone of our solution, offering a central, secure location to manage data, tasks, and teams. Contracts and documents can be easily uploaded and organized in one place rather than trying to manage information dispersed across different spreadsheets and emails. Stakeholders across your procurement, risk, compliance and legal teams can see where a supplier is in the procurement process at any given time. Key supplier commercial data like TIN checking, OFAC, and W-9 forms are automatically validated within Graphite to drastically speed up onboarding. Get ready to do business with new partners in days instead of months.

PRGX helps companies spot value in their source-to-pay processes that other sophisticated solutions didn’t get to before. Having identified more than 300 common points of leakage, we help companies reach wider, dig deeper, and act faster to get more value out of their source-to-pay data. We pioneered this industry over 50 years ago, and today we help clients in more than 30 countries take back $1.2 billion in annual cash flow. It’s why 75% of top global retailers and a third of the largest companies in the Fortune 500 rely on us.

Role-based, practical eLearning academies for procurement and supply chain teams. Created by experts and powered by science, our industry-beating content and innovative technology gives your team the real-world skills they need to excel, ensuring your business is fit for the future. Performance. Accelerated.

Zip is the world’s only intake-to-pay platform. Providing a single platform for any employee to initiate and complete a purchase or vendor request, Zip helps businesses gain clear and timely visibility across all business spend, while dramatically improving the employee experience. The platform’s no-code configuration and intelligent workflows integrated across disparate systems enable businesses to automatically route requests for faster approval across finance, legal, procurement, IT, security and other teams. Zip consolidates all the steps and tools used across the purchasing lifecycle in one platform. Leading enterprises and high-growth startups like Northwestern Mutual, Snowflake, Canva, Airtable, Webflow, Databricks and over 200 others use Zip to streamline their procurement processes while delighting their business users.

Tech Showcase Partners

Calculum is a Fintech Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) company, leveraging advanced analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help companies improve working capital efficiency and increase cash flow. Headquartered in Miami, Calculum’s ADA Platform is the first AI-powered platform providing procurement, finance and treasury insights on optimizing supplier payment terms based on market and competitor data. The web-based data intelligence platform allows companies to analyze suppliers in terms of payment terms, financials, credit rating, diversity and ESG (Economic Social Governance). Calculum provides solutions to companies of all sizes, including banks,private equity institutions, and their global corporate clients.

Sievo gives procurement, finance and leadership teams a single source of truth and transparency to all sourcing decisions. Our solution supports choosing the right suppliers, delivering savings and managing compliance with confidence. Not only that, we enable a sustainable, diverse and resilient supply base.We master the art of extracting, classifying and enriching data across all procurement systems and external data sources, saving your valuable time. Furthermore, we bridge the data-to-action gap and power agile procurement by combining AI with procurement expertise. Procurement organizations need an analytics partner they can trust. We’re large enough to deliver, small enough to care.

Sphera is the leading provider of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance and risk management software, data and consulting services focusing on Environment, Health, Safety & Sustainability (EHS&S), Operational Risk Management (ORM), Product Stewardship and Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM).

Media Partners

CHAIN, the world’s go-to digital supply chain magazine, packed to the rafters with the inside scoop on all things delivery and procurement. We have a wealth of experience when it comes to producing insightful media content, whether reporting on the latest industry news or interviewing the most high-profile names in the business world. We are extremely proud to be part of this exciting industry as it undergoes some of the biggest transformations it has seen in decades… Join us!