Partners

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GEP helps global enterprises operate more efficiently and effectively, gain competitive advantage, boost profitability, and maximize business and shareholder value.

Vision Partners

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Technology and Operations services and Accenture Song — all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 721,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities.

Ivalua is a leading provider of cloud-based Spend Management software. Their complete, unified platform empowers businesses to effectively manage all categories of spend and all suppliers, increasing profitability, lowering risk, and improving ESG performance. They are committed to a sustainable future as a company and through their platform. Their Environmental Impact Center (EIC) enables organisations establish a GHG emission baseline and they collaborate with their suppliers to lower emissions, reducing the environmental and social impact of their spend. They are trusted by hundreds of the world’s most admired brands and recognised as a global leader by renowned industry analysts

For leading businesses around the world, The Smart Cube is a trusted partner for high performing intelligence that answers critical business questions. And we work with our clients to figure out how to implement the answers, faster.

Through custom research, advanced analytics and best of breed technology, we transform data into insights–enabling smart decision-making to improve business performance at the top and bottom line. We call it: Intelligence. Accelerated

Knowledge Partners

HICX helps Global 5000 companies to take control of their supplier data and to deliver a great supplier experience.  The HICX Supplier Experience Platform enables businesses with thousands of suppliers to efficiently on-board and manage the end-to-end lifecycle of all suppliers, to achieve a single version of truth for all supplier data, and to remove the friction from supplier relationships. Some of the world’s largest companies trust HICX for the management of their supplier data, these include Unilever, Mondelez, Mars, Lenovo, Baker Hughes, Orkla, BAE Systems and EDF Energy.

As a global consulting partnership in more than 40 countries, our people make us who we are. We’re individuals who take as much joy from those we work with as the work itself. Driven to be the difference between a big idea and making it happen, we help our clients break through.

SAP Procurement Solutions includes SAP Ariba, SAP Fieldglass and SAP S/4HANA-based offerings for operational procurement, delivering a comprehensive suite for goods and services procurement and external workforce management. SAP Ariba solutions provide collaborative commerce capabilities from sourcing and orders through invoice and payment along with expertise to help customers optimize their spend. The solutions drive simple, intelligent exchanges between millions of buyers and suppliers across both direct and indirect expense categories.

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TealBook is the leading supplier data platform that automates the collection, enrichment and distribution of supplier data to power the end-to-end procurement lifecycle. Using AI and ML, TealBook enables procurement teams to unlock and realize the investment made in suppliers, people, source-to-pay and ERP systems. The world’s most innovative procurement organizations are building their data foundations with TealBook’s trusted supplier data.
TealBook has been adopted by Fortune 100 companies and is the winner of many prestigious awards including: Spend Matters 50 Vendors to Know, ProcureTech Top 100, LinkedIn Top Startups, and Gartner Cool Vendor.

Insight Partners

Craft is the leading supplier intelligence platform that helps supply chain and procurement professionals discover, evaluate, and monitor suppliers to help build an unbreakable supplier network. Craft provides a comprehensive, reliable supplier data foundation with 400+ data points on suppliers around the world, as well as actionable insights through Craft Risk Hub, Craft N-Tier Mapping, and a collaboration workspace that, together, allow organizations to better identify opportunity, mitigate risk, and prevent disruption.

HRS is reinventing the way businesses and governments work, stay and pay in today’s dynamic global marketplace. HRS’ advanced platform technology is extending its reach beyond hospitality to meetings, office space management, payment efficiency and crisis recovery. Beyond cost savings in the global post-pandemic economy, HRS clients gain from an unrivaled focus on essential aspects including safety, security and satisfaction. HRS is also recognized for its award-winning Green Stay Initiative, technology that helps corporate hotel programs achieve their NetZero targets. Founded in 1972, HRS works with 35 percent of the global Fortune 500, as well as the world’s leading hotel chains, regional hospitality groups and payment providers.

Vendr is forever changing how companies find, buy, renew and manage SaaS. With over $2.5B+ in SaaS purchases across 2,500+ suppliers, the Vendr SaaS buying platform enables the world’s fastest-growing companies to purchase SaaS, without friction and at a fair price.

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Amazon Business helps millions of customers worldwide—from small businesses, schools, hospitals, non-profit organizations, and government agencies, to large enterprises with global operations—reshape their procurement with cost and time-savings, greater productivity, and insightful purchasing analytics. For more information, visit www.business.amazon.com.

Insight Sourcing Group is the premier firm exclusively focused on strategic sourcing, cost optimization, and procurement transformation. Founded in 2002, Insight’s capabilities are designed to accelerate bottom-line impact through the expertise of 250+ sourcing specialists with an execution-oriented approach.

We’ve developed a market-leading Category Center-of-Excellence across all areas of spend including direct, indirect, and capex; and have practices specializing in Private Equity, Supplier Diversity, Energy Management, and Sustainability.

Insight has partnered with finance and procurement teams to execute over 7,500 sourcing projects, and within the last year have achieved >$1.25B in savings with an average 7:1 one-year ROI.

Interos protects the world’s largest enterprises, their reputation, and operations from supply chain attacks by nation states and criminal organizations; disruption from pandemics, tech, and trade wars; and compromise from unethical labor, financial distress, and sustainability challenges.

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Jabil is one of the world’s largest supply chain, design and manufacturing solution providers, with over 250,000 employees across 100 locations in 30 countries.

Our 2,000+ procurement, supply chain and logistics practitioners support our 450+ manufacturing customers every day and now you can take advantage of the expertise, experience, tools, and supply chain intelligence through Jabil’s Supply Chain Services. Backed by the leverage and relationships gained from Jabil’s $29 billion annual purchasing spend and our global network of 36,000 suppliers, we deliver advantages in secure supply, partner relationship management, cost-saving and avoidance opportunities, and on-time delivery.

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Tech Showcase Partners

ETCH Sourcing is a wholly Canadian, women and diversity owned, specialized service provider in Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, and Category Management. ETCH has helped numerous organizations across Canada and North America with building and delivering strategies for best-in-class supply chain practices. We have in-depth procurement expertise in large corporations and a detailed understanding of the entire procurement process, from idea generation and category strategy to sourcing event execution and supplier performance management. We are passionate practitioners and we are driven to help support our clients in creating lasting value, every time.

Jabil is one of the world’s largest supply chain, design and manufacturing solution providers, with over 250,000 employees across 100 locations in 30 countries.

Exhibitors

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.

EcoVadis is a purpose-led company whose mission is to provide the world’s most trusted business sustainability ratings. Its actionable scorecards, benchmarks, carbon action tools, and insights guide the journey for sustainable procurement, environmental, social, and ethical practices to companies across 200 industry categories and 175 countries. Industry leaders such as Johnson & Johnson, L’Oréal, Unilever, LVMH, Bridgestone, BASF, and JPMorgan are among the 100,000 businesses collaborating with EcoVadis to drive resilience, sustainable growth, and positive impact worldwide. Learn more on ecovadis.com, Twitter or LinkedIn.

Falcon Group are a Third Party Inventory Ownership company and Asset as a Service provider. Falcon are experts in optimising supply chain and providing vendor programs for our clients to ensure just-in-time inventory and optimized balance sheets. Our 28-year track record has provided Falcon with a real understanding of the unique inventory, supply chain and capex v opex pressures that businesses face.

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.

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.

McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm. We help organizations across the private, public, and social sectors create the change that matters.

With our Orpheus solution, we help clients transform spend data into opportunity for value capture. Orpheus offers a powerful spend analytics platform, giving you a comprehensive understanding of your procurement spend and helping you make data-backed decisions across your operations value chain and your entire organization.

NPI is an IT procurement advisory and intelligence company that helps businesses identify and eliminate overspending on IT purchases. We deliver transaction-level price benchmark analysis, license optimization advice and vendor-specific negotiation intel that enables IT buying teams to drive measurable savings. NPI analyzes billions of dollars in spend each year for clients spanning all industries that invest heavily in IT. NPI also offers software license audit and telecom carrier agreement optimization services.

Optis is a North American leader in Source-to-Pay transformation. We provide independent advice, precision implementation, and meaningful results. Our clients choose us as their guide through the transformation journey, partnering with us for our unmatched expertise and quality across our range of Source-to-Pay transformation services. We lead strategy, we implement and support the best technology platforms, and we enable lasting organizational change.

The Fortune 1,000 trusts ProcureAbility to support and transform their procurement organizations by providing on-demand consulting, staffing, recruiting, analytics and market intelligence. Decades of experience and a robust team empower us to address your needs and opportunities with options that deliver maximum procurement ability.

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.

SpendHQ is the leading best-in-class provider of enterprise Spend Intelligence software, and following its 2022 merger with Per Angusta, adds a centralized platform for Procurement Performance Management to connect strategic goals to operational sourcing execution. Backed by nearly 20 years of procurement expertise and a combined experience delivering to 450+ customers, SpendHQ’s solutions give businesses the rapid, accurate, and actionable spend insights and performance optimization they need to drive better outcomes and advance their organizational maturity. Learn more at www.spendhq.com

Taulia is a leading provider of working capital solutions. Through our AI-powered platform, people and process, we help companies access the value tied up in their supply chain by transitioning from inefficient working capital management practices into technology-led, working capital optimization strategies. Businesses have the option to choose when and how to pay and get paid. Our processes provide both buyers and suppliers with the tools to make this a reality.

The Trust Your Supplier (TYS) platform provides one solution for supplier life cycle and risk management across the enterprise, allowing various business divisions to collaborate on risk mitigation, cost reduction, and preparation for ever-changing supply chain regulations. TYS has a multi-tiered risk management approach by combining supplier-supplied firmographics, supplier self-audit questionnaires that cover a broad spectrum of compliance topics, and integrated risk intelligence from world-class business partners. Our patented blockchain-based SIM system provides supplier discovery, onboarding, risk & compliance management, customized risk scoring, intelligent workflows, approval management, risk intelligence reporting, unparalleled data security, and seamless integrations to other back-end and procurement stack technologies.

Outcome-driven companies partner with WNS Denali to operationalize their Procurement function and improve financial performance and efficiency. We work alongside our clients to co-create, implement, and execute next-generation customized operating models to increase the strategic impact of Procurement for their businesses. Our procurement practitioners provide a range of advisory and managed services, along with enabling technology to help our clients build an integrated Procurement Ecosystem that empowers them to create more value and outperform in the market.

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.

Media Partners

Trade across borders has developed from being a trend to being a necessity for many sellers if you don’t want to be pushed out of the market. There’s no one-size-fits-all solution; there are many ways to sell into new markets. In Cross-Border Magazine, you can read about a wide variety of successful companies that started with completely different approaches.

The Cross-Border Magazine is made by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs and has been designed to be a valuable source on cross-border online trade. Many entrepreneurs are still struggling with a number of aspects of international selling. The Cross-Border Magazine team offers the opportunity to learn from others by featuring case studies, success (and failure!) stories, and tips and advice from expert thought-leaders from around the world. An expert panel offers insight into the challenges and opportunities sellers face when selling in more than one country.

SupplyChainBrain, the world’s most comprehensive supply chain management information resource, is accessed year round through a wide range of ever evolving multi-media formats by hundreds of thousands of senior level industry executives. In addition to addressing the fundamental principles of supply-chain management, SupplyChainBrain identifies emerging trends, technologies and best practices, forward thinking ideas and cutting-edge solutions-and continues to write and report about these as they evolve and mature.

Supply Chain Online has been the UK’s leading Procurement and Supply Chain job site for over 15 years, publishing more live Procurement and Supply Chain roles than any other UK job site. We provide targeted recruitment advertising, Employer branding opportunities, Email marketing and social media recruitment campaigns to a dedicated audience of over 100,000 Procurement and Supply Chain professionals, from graduate level, mid-management through to C-Suite level, with a high percentage of registered candidates having a CIPS qualification or higher.

We have a social media network across LinkedIn and Twitter of over 25,000 Procurement and Supply Chain professionals and a Targeted HTML email database of over 30,000 Procurement and Supply Chain jobseekers. We also send over 250,000 job alerts to our registered users every month.