The IDC MarketScape evaluated 17 application and software vendors delivering carbon accounting and management solutions. The IDC MarketScape examined how well they support credible emissions measurement, strong data governance, corporate-, product-, and supplier-level visibility, and standards-based reporting.

麻豆原创 is ideal for organizations seeking to run sustainability as a core business discipline by embedding carbon and broader sustainability management directly into ERP processes. This approach helps reduce the inefficiencies, risks, and inconsistencies created by fragmented, stand鈥慳lone tools while enabling AI鈥慸riven insights grounded in governed, transactional data.

We believe this recognition reflects 麻豆原创鈥檚 commitment to helping organizations act on carbon data across the enterprise. 麻豆原创 Sustainability solutions support scalable carbon emissions calculation, regulatory reporting, supplier collaboration, and decarbonization planning while embedding emissions insights directly into business processes, investment decisions, and day-to-day operations.

The importance of robust carbon management

Sustainability is an enterprise-wide responsibility and a strategic opportunity. Organizations must reliably measure, allocate, and act on carbon to manage risk, lower costs, and improve performance.

Regulatory requirements demand a shift from estimates to actuals. Assurance expectations continue to rise as evolving legislation penalizes the use of estimates, turning data gaps into direct financial exposure. Sustainability disclosures now require finance-grade evidence trails that spreadsheets cannot provide. With carbon increasingly impacting margins, cash, and liabilities, finance teams must find a way to forecast exposure and govern risk.

At the same time, leadership teams need a single, quantified view of carbon impact to understand implications, align priorities, and enable confident, informed decision-making.

This shift is already materializing through carbon pricing mechanisms. The EU鈥檚 Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), now in its definitive phase, places a carbon price on certain imports based on their embedded emissions. It aims to promote fair competition and more sustainable global trade practices. Declaring companies can report using supplier actuals or EU default values. However, relying on EU default values can increase costs over time, creating a clear incentive to move to actual data to reduce exposure and protect market access.

As regulators set clearer expectations and assign a direct price to carbon, emissions now carry measurable financial risk. Companies must extend financial rigor into emissions quantification, applying the same discipline, controls, and assurance used in financial reporting.

麻豆原创 extends financial rigor to carbon

Unlike point solutions built solely to calculate carbon emissions, the solution can serve as the accounting layer for carbon. It applies the financial principles of double-entry accounting to carbon emissions, helping to bring structure, controls, and traceability to carbon data. Natively integrated with cloud ERP finance through 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform (麻豆原创 BTP), it enables companies to import, post, allocate, and analyze carbon emissions with the same rigor and discipline that finance applies to monetary accounting.

For ERP鈥慶entric organizations, 麻豆原创 Green Ledger can preserve and extend financial rigor into this regulated, non鈥慺inancial domain. It helps strengthen data integrity and auditability, support assurance-ready reporting, and create a consistent foundation for carbon data across the enterprise.

As a result, organizations can reduce compliance costs and regulatory risk, embed sustainability directly into cost centers and financial processes, and gain clearer insights to support better business decisions. Native integration makes the approach both trustworthy and scalable, allowing carbon to be governed, managed, and acted on as a core component of enterprise performance.

A future-ready carbon ecosystem

Robust businesses govern finance through strong controls, reconciliations, and audit trails, typically grounded in ERP systems. Until recently, carbon emissions existed outside this system, treated as a sustainability metric rather than a governed business variable. Bridging this gap requires an ecosystem that connects carbon calculation, data exchange, and accounting鈥攁nchored in finance. According to IDC, 鈥淭he three-tier approach of better applications, richer data, and smarter AI enables companies to not only 鈥榬ecord鈥� and 鈥榬eport鈥� their sustainability efforts but also take informed, data-driven actions.鈥�

麻豆原创 supports this through a modular, ERP-native approach that adapts to different levels of maturity. Organizations can begin by calculating reliable corporate and product footprints using primary data wherever available, then bring those emissions into finance to post, allocate, and govern carbon with the same controls applied to monetary values.

As requirements grow, the ecosystem extends to supplier data exchange, consolidation across entities, advanced analytics, and scenario modeling鈥攁llowing companies to connect carbon with cost, performance, and planning. Sustainability reporting and disclosure are supported on top of this foundation, using governed, auditable data already embedded in enterprise systems.

麻豆原创 uses AI across the carbon lifecycle to help map and enrich emissions factors, streamline ESG report preparation, and analyze carbon data at scale鈥攕upporting stronger controls, faster reporting, and more informed financial decision鈥憁aking.

This is a defining moment for businesses as they take the critical step of integrating carbon management into finance. 麻豆原创 remains committed to providing an ERP-integrated carbon ledger that empowers companies to comply with evolving regulations, govern performance with rigor, and make decisions that drive sustainable, long-term growth.

Stephen Jamieson is chief marketing officer of 麻豆原创 Sustainability.

The IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Talent Intelligence evaluates vendors using the IDC MarketScape model, which incorporates quantitative and qualitative factors to assess vendors’ current capabilities and future road maps for delivering value to customers seeking talent intelligence. According to the report, 麻豆原创 was recognized for strengths in 鈥渦nified and integrated skills framework, embedded AI and analytics, and an open data ecosystem.鈥�

Chasing innovation: powering the skills-based enterprise

At 麻豆原创, we have made consistent and strategic investments in skills, talent intelligence, and AI-driven workforce planning.

The talent intelligence hub is a unified skills framework embedded across the entire . It empowers HR with an AI-driven, consistent skills foundation to help optimize talent processes, enrich personalized employee learning experiences, and accelerate skills development鈥攅nabling organizations to build an agile, future-ready workforce.

Building on this foundation, skills and intelligence capabilities can be leveraged across multiple product areas. helps transform career growth, internal mobility, and success into a single, AI-powered, skills-based solution, helping to give leaders clear visibility into workforce capabilities while guiding employees to personalized opportunities, so you can build, retain, and deploy the talent your strategy needs to win. (generally available in 1H 2026) can enable optimized shift planning in manufacturing and production by helping to ensure the right people with the right skills are in the right place at the right time to help prevent the costly impacts of understaffing or overstaffing.  And the can bring together people, skills, and business data, from 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions and beyond, into actionable insights that help leaders make more informed people and business decisions.

We are also accelerating innovation with new Joule Agents to help automate repetitive tasks, guide employees with real-time, context-aware support, and enable accuracy across core HR processes, so that HR can focus on strategic people initiatives. The , now generally available, and the upcoming Career and Talent Development and People Intelligence Agents (both planned for 1H 2026) will deliver AI capabilities to help manage performance reviews, compensation planning, skills distribution, retention, personalized development, and succession. And with 麻豆原创鈥檚 acquisition of SmartRecruiters, we are strengthening our talent acquisition capabilities to deliver an even more unified, intelligence-driven hiring experience.

These innovations help organizations close skills gaps and empower employees with meaningful, data-driven growth opportunities, helping them thrive in an ever-changing workplace.

Customer insights: real outcomes from skills transformation

Our customers say it best when it comes to the impact of our skills-based innovations.

• , a global business and technology partner, is building a skills engine to support the employee lifecycle. 鈥淪kills are at the core of our company, as they support both clients and employees. Our promise to 鈥榞et the future you want鈥� means thinking about future client needs and employee skills and career development. 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors HCM is key in our skills-first approach to our people experience transformation,鈥� Jihane Baciocchini, vice president and head of Talent Acquisition, Capgemini, said.
• , one of the world鈥檚 leading pump and water solutions companies, is utilizing the talent intelligence hub functionality of 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions to create a single source of skills information, enabling it to connect people and business needs in new ways. 鈥淭here鈥檚 a consensus that what got us here won鈥檛 get us there: we need new skills and capabilities. And that鈥檚 where the talent intelligence hub in 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions comes in. It鈥檚 helping us build one skills foundation that feeds into critical decisions on talent鈥攁nd transform skills into something we live and breathe every day,鈥� Mads Kidmose, head of HR Technology and Data Foundation, Grundfos Holding A/S, said.

What鈥檚 next

This is a critical moment for HR leaders, as talent intelligence platforms are transforming how organizations hire, develop, and retain their workforce. Looking ahead to 2026, our focus remains on expanding skills-based capabilities and delivering AI solutions that can empower every organization to grow with confidence and thrive.

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Lara Albert is chief marketing officer for 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors.

That鈥檚 why I鈥檓 super proud to share that 麻豆原创 has been named a Leader in .* This marks the second time 麻豆原创 has received this recognition, following our position as a Leader in the 2023 IDC MarketScape.**

We believe this distinction reflects the strength of 鈥攐ur entry in the MESCCN space鈥攁nd the trust placed in the solution by companies around the world. It鈥檚 a milestone that underscores our commitment to helping businesses navigate complexity and build more connected, intelligent supply chains.

A legacy of collaboration

麻豆原创 Business Network is the world鈥檚 largest B2B trading partner platform, supporting more than US$6.5 trillion in annual transactions. It can modernize how procurement and supply chain processes connect across companies, helping build stronger, more resilient supply chains and deliver on the customer promise.

The network traces its roots back to the Ariba Supplier Network, founded in 1996. Over the years, it has evolved to support a broad range of supply chain processes. In 2021, we unified our capabilities under the 麻豆原创 Business Network brand, bringing together logistics, asset management, finance, sustainability, and talent-based networks into a single, comprehensive platform.

Today, millions of companies across 190 countries rely on 麻豆原创 Business Network to digitalize transactions, share information, and discover trading partners. By leveraging AI and configurable business rules, the network helps close break points between buyers and suppliers鈥攅nabling greater visibility, operational efficiency, and compliance across the supply chain.

What the IDC MarketScape recognized

According to the IDC MarketScape, 麻豆原创 Business Network鈥檚 positioning as a Leader is supported by several competitive strengths:

• Comprehensive product features and road map: 麻豆原创 Business Network offers an extensive range of features and functionality, covering all major B2B collaboration categories, including indirect and direct materials, MRO, logistics, finance, services, and sustainability. The network’s robust future road map enables continuous innovation, empowering businesses to stay ahead in a dynamic landscape.
• Seamless integration and extensibility: The network demonstrates capabilities in integration, connecting 麻豆原创 ERP, procurement, and supply chain modules while extending to other ERPs, customer applications, and cutting-edge technologies such as machine learning, AI, and blockchain.
• Global reach and real-time collaboration: 麻豆原创 Business Network enables trading partners to collaborate in real time across the globe across a wide breadth of business processes.
• Automation through configurable business rules: 麻豆原创 Business Network empowers businesses to automate essential processes by working to define and customize rules tailored to their specific needs. These configurable rules can streamline workflows, enforce compliance, and boost operational efficiency, reducing manual intervention.
• Robust foundation and ecosystem: 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform (麻豆原创 BTP), combined with the broader 麻豆原创 ecosystem, can provide a scalable and extensible secure foundation for seamless integration across procurement, supply chain, and finance processes.

We believe these strengths, as recognized by the IDC MarketScape, reinforce the value 麻豆原创 delivers to organizations seeking to extend their business processes across the entire value chain.

Continuing to innovate on 麻豆原创 Business Network

We believe this recognition by the IDC MarketScape reflects not only the strength of 麻豆原创 today but also our commitment to ongoing innovation. We鈥檙e continuously enhancing the network to help companies collaborate more effectively, respond faster to change, and unlock new sources of value across their supply chains.

At 麻豆原创 Connect, we shared how 麻豆原创 Business Network is evolving to meet the demands of increasingly dynamic and interconnected business environments. Built on 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform, the network now offers a scalable data foundation, seamless integration with 麻豆原创 Cloud ERP capabilities and third-party systems, and enhanced workflow customization through 麻豆原创 Build solutions. This has enabled many innovative initiatives to incorporate Joule across the network, reimagining analytics, automation, and approvals with intelligent capabilities that will be continuously released starting in 2026. 

We鈥檙e also further expanding integration with 麻豆原创 Cloud ERP, 麻豆原创 Ariba solutions, 麻豆原创 Fieldglass solutions, and 麻豆原创 Transportation Management to support end-to-end value streams. These enhancements can help streamline supplier onboarding, accelerate issue resolution, and improve sustainability tracking, empowering businesses to operate with greater agility and confidence.

Empowering businesses to realize the full value of collaboration

As multi-enterprise collaboration continues to evolve, we see tremendous opportunity to help organizations unlock new levels of agility, visibility, and efficiency. At 麻豆原创, we鈥檙e focused on making this journey as seamless and rewarding as possible.

Across industries, customers are already seeing the impact. , a leading aerospace manufacturer, is using 麻豆原创 Business Network Supply Chain Collaboration to improve visibility and responsiveness across its supplier ecosystem. Similarly, , one of the world鈥檚 largest aircraft manufacturers, is leveraging 麻豆原创 Business Network to streamline procurement and supply chain processes, enhancing operational agility and supplier engagement.

We鈥檙e investing in education, enablement, and intuitive user experiences to support companies as they expand their collaborative networks. Whether you鈥檙e a manufacturer, services provider, or supplier, our goal is to empower you to connect, collaborate, and grow with confidence鈥攍everaging the full potential of 麻豆原创 Business Network to help drive strategic outcomes across your value chain.

A strategic choice for the future

If you鈥檙e looking for a partner that offers both a robust multi-enterprise network and deep supply chain and procurement capabilities, 麻豆原创 is the clear choice. Our unmatched integration with core 麻豆原创 and non-麻豆原创 applications, combined with our strategic vision and global reach, makes us uniquely positioned to support your transformation.

As I shared in my recent article, we鈥檙e entering a new era of supply chain management鈥攐ne defined by connected ecosystems, intelligent automation, and sustainable growth. 麻豆原创 Business Network is at the heart of this transformation, helping businesses turn complexity into opportunity.

To our customers, partners, and the entire 麻豆原创 community, thank you for your trust and collaboration. We believe this recognition from the IDC MarketScape is a shared achievement, and we鈥檙e excited to continue building the future of supply chain commerce together.

To learn more, visit  and read the IDC MarketScape excerpt .

Dominik Metzger is president and chief product officer for 麻豆原创 Supply Chain Management.

*Source: , November 2025, IDC #US53010225.
**Source: IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Multi-Enterprise Supply Chain Commerce Network 2023 Vendor Assessment, December 2023, IDC #US49948423.

The IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier鈥檚 position within a given market. The Capabilities score measures supplier product, go-to-market and business execution in the short-term. The Strategy score measures alignment of supplier strategies with customer requirements in a three to five year timeframe. Supplier market share is represented by the size of the icons.

According to the IDC MarketScape, 鈥淎I-enabled tools are revolutionizing field service management, transforming reactive operations into predictive excellence.鈥�

麻豆原创 was recognized for the following strengths:

• End-to-end field service management offering as part of the full enterprise suite: 麻豆原创 Field Service Management is a fully integrated component of the 麻豆原创 Business Suite, enabling end-to-end business process execution across planning, logistics, operations, finance, and customer service. It connects seamlessly with core 麻豆原创 solutions such as 麻豆原创 S/4HANA, customer experience, asset management, and supply chain management, ensuring that service delivery is fully aligned with enterprise-wide processes. This deep integration eliminates silos, enables real-time collaboration across departments, and supports consistent, efficient service execution across the entire value chain.
• AI innovations and generative AI capabilities: 麻豆原创 Field Service Management is infused with AI and generative AI to simplify and accelerate service delivery. 麻豆原创 is able to support generative summaries of equipment history, work orders, and past service activities. 麻豆原创 has established an embedded AI copilot for field service that enables users to execute commands, automate actions, and retrieve context-aware insights using conversational language with the benefit of boosting productivity and responsiveness across the service life cycle. 麻豆原创 also has a robust auto-scheduling engine designed for complex, high-volume service operations.

Commitment to continuous innovation

Field service organizations face growing complexity, workforce shortages, and rising customer expectations that demand smarter, faster, and more connected service delivery. 麻豆原创 continues to lead the market by integrating AI-driven insights, intelligent automation, and end-to-end connectivity across its portfolio.

麻豆原创 remains focused on enabling customers to:

• Boost technician and dispatcher productivity
• Drive customer-centric and revenue enabling operations
• Reduce operational costs and accelerate complex workflows via intelligent automation and AI
• Provide a connected and extensible platform for field service

麻豆原创 is proud to be recognized by the IDC MarketScape as a Leader in AI-enabled field service management. We remain committed to helping our customers run their service operations smarter, safer, and faster 鈥� combining data, applications, and AI to deliver measurable business outcomes and exceptional customer experiences.

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In today鈥檚 fast-changing world of work, hiring the right talent has never been more critical鈥攐r complex. HR and talent acquisition leaders are under growing pressure to deliver fast results, navigate rising uncertainty, and keep up with rapidly evolving skills needs in their business.

According to the World Economic Forum鈥檚 , 63% of employers cite skills gaps in the labor market as the primary barrier to business transformation, while 86% expect AI to significantly transform their business over the next five years. The study also reports that talent availability is declining, making it harder for organizations to find the right talent with the right capabilities needed for the future. At the same time, organizations are rethinking their approaches to hiring, embracing AI and moving toward more agile, skills-based strategies to compete for talent in a dynamic and evolving job market. 

That鈥檚 why selecting the right technology partner matters now more than ever. Organizations need a solution that can help them stay ahead of change, drive smarter hiring, and fuel growth and long-term business success. 鈥淭alent acquisition priorities are changing, leading to evolving concentrations and points of entry in an increasingly diversifying vendor space in the market,鈥� says Zachary Chertok, senior research manager, Employee Experience at IDC. 鈥淚ncreased pressures to reduce the time to place qualified talent in roles that fill persistent and evolving skills gaps are leading talent acquisition buyers to rethink their approaches to hiring and the tools that support them.鈥�

麻豆原创 SuccessFactors is proud to be named a Leader in the . 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions can empower organizations of all sizes to address the ever-changing challenges of hiring in today鈥檚 complex, skills-driven world of work.

The report analyzes the expansive talent acquisition ecosystem, evaluating 22 vendors for user experience, native solution capabilities, future development pipelines, and company criteria, including size, scope, geographic reach, and future growth targets. We believe 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors鈥� position as a Leader reflects visionary product strategy, continuous innovation, comprehensive solution functionality, and demonstrated customer value and satisfaction. The IDC MarketScape states, 鈥溌槎乖� SuccessFactors Recruiting is part of the 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors HCM suite and provides AI-enabled tools, resources, and services to support recruiters and talent teams to source and align talent to their best-fit connection points within the organization.鈥� Highlighting 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors鈥� strengths, the report mentions, 鈥溌槎乖� SuccessFactors customers find that the solution provides them with deep insights drawn from across the existing and modeled workforce. 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors鈥� AI and analytical capabilities support clients to tie candidate-centric hiring practices into the evolving and modeled skilling and position needs of the organization.鈥�

Helping companies hire smarter and faster

Hiring today isn鈥檛 just about filling open roles. It鈥檚 about building strong talent pipelines, finding people with the right skills and potential, creating exceptional candidate experiences, and aligning every hire to overall HR and business goals. and offer comprehensive, AI-enabled solutions that can simplify global hiring to help organizations attract, engage, and hire top talent with the right skills needed today and in the future.

The IDC MarketScape notes, 鈥溌槎乖� SuccessFactors Recruiting helps recruiters maintain fluid and flexible organizational talent pipelines that retain and progressively match high-performing talent to where they are best fit within the evolving organization.鈥� The report continues, 鈥淥verall, recruiters and talent acquisition teams find that 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors鈥� recruiting and talent acquisition capabilities are feature rich, support dynamic and evolving compliance and sourcing needs, and support custom and AI-informed workflows and candidate progression.鈥� 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions can enable organizations to accelerate hiring with AI-enabled talent acquisition capabilities, including AI-enhanced job descriptions, AI-assisted applicant screening, AI-recommended interview questions, AI-driven skills-based job recommendations, AI-assisted onboarding and offboarding, AI-assisted writing, and AI-driven interview summarization.

Adopting the right AI-enabled talent acquisition strategy is what puts innovative businesses ahead. , a large and diversified holding company in Brunei turned to 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions to transform HR鈥檚 impact on its business, increasing productivity and efficiency to over 30 subsidiaries across 14 industries. 鈥淲ith 麻豆原创 Business AI technology embedded in 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions, we鈥檝e seen significant benefits such as reducing our overall recruitment time from months to weeks. The AI features have streamlined processes for generating and updating job descriptions and creating competency-based interview questions, making our recruitment process more efficient and standardized,鈥� shares Salehin Basir, human capital development manager at Darussalam Assets. The company has seen significant benefits, such as four-times more efficient hiring processes, a 75% reduction in recruitment time, and deeper insights into important HR metrics that improve data-driven decision-making and reduce bottlenecks.

Powering a skills-based, AI-driven talent strategy

With a talent landscape defined by continuous change, the future of hiring relies on taking a skills-based approach to identifying, securing, and growing the right talent. The reports that 70% of organizations plan to hire for emerging, in-demand skills, while 51% intend to reskill or upskill existing employees to fill growing skills needs. Whether an organization is focused on developing talent from within or bringing in new capabilities to keep their business ahead, 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions can help talent teams stay agile, efficient, and aligned to business needs.

According to trusted HCM Industry Analyst Josh Bersin鈥檚 , talent acquisition leaders state a growing priority to implement skills throughout their talent functions and strategies鈥攆or both hiring and internal mobility. The factbook shares, 鈥淎I plays a key role in deploying skills in a scalable and sustainable way, particularly as in-demand and job-specific skills are constantly changing. It can help match skills to jobs, identify skill adjacencies, pinpoint where talent with specific skills is located, uncover learning opportunities, and more.鈥�

Our latest finds growing workforce confidence around the potential value of AI, with 70% of managers agreeing that using AI technology for skills-based decision-making would be somewhat or very valuable, and an overwhelming majority of employees () feeling positively about skills-based decision-making. The IDC MarketScape highlights how 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors users can quickly see value from implementing skills-based hiring strategies, noting: 鈥淪implified application processes help candidates apply from any device and leverage AI to parse skills from their resumes to match those with the company鈥檚 evolving skills architecture and talent intelligence.鈥�

Bringing these insights to life, is a powerful example of how leading organizations are building skills-based talent strategies ready for the future. Capgemini, a global business and technology partner with 340,000 employees across more than 50 countries turned to 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions when looking for an HR infrastructure that would allow it to attract, retain, and grow market-leading skills. Capgemini built a skills engine to support the moments that matter across the employee lifecycle, including recruitment, onboarding, talent management, compensation and rewards, learning, and succession management. The company is implementing 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors HCM to enable skills-based people management and deliver a highly engaging people experience.

Going beyond talent acquisition, 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions help align hiring to overall HR strategies, with connected, unified ; a single skills foundation; AI-enabled talent intelligence; and advanced, cross-suite capabilities. The IDC MarketScape notes, 鈥溌槎乖� SuccessFactors Recruiting is a natural extension of the 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors environment that gives companies a fully integrated platform for insights-driven, end-to-end candidate and employee lifecycle management.鈥� The assessment further notes, 鈥淭alent acquisition teams can benefit from deep continuous workforce planning insights that guide for and optimize the balance between internal mobility and external hiring for a higher efficacy in talent placement.鈥�

As we look toward the future, organizations that embrace skills-based talent strategies and AI-driven talent acquisition will be best positioned to adapt, grow, and lead in an ever-changing world of work. Learn more about why we were named a Leader in the and discover more about and .

According to the IDC MarketScape, “The company鈥檚 ability to cover end-to-end operations and integrate planning within a core system comes ready to implement.” The report also noted that “麻豆原创鈥檚 size and scope is globally expansive, and the company鈥檚 client base in supply chain planning is extensive.”

Other key strengths recognized include:

• Analytics and dashboarding with both web-based and Excel-based interfaces
• Ready-to-implement and business-tested sets of algorithms across planning
  functions
• Synchronized planning integrating finance, supply chain planning, and execution
• AI and machine learning demand planning enabling what-if scenario modeling, demand sensing, analytics, new product introduction, and more
• Inventory optimization integrated with SIOP and S&OP processes

麻豆原创 was also positioned in the remaining supply chain planning vendor assessments:

• A Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Supply Chain Planning for Process Industries 2024 Vendor Assessment
• A Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Supply Chain Planning for Life Sciences Industries 2024 Vendor Assessment (doc #US51047123, November 2024)
• A Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Supply Chain Planning for Distribution Industries 2024 Vendor Assessment
• A Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Supply Chain Planning for Discrete Industries 2024 Vendor Assessment
• A Major Player in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Supply Chain Planning in Spare Parts/MRO 2024 Vendor Assessment (doc #US51541424, December 2024)

麻豆原创鈥檚 composable approach to providing planning solutions for its customers coupled with native integration between those composable elements and ERP systems allows companies to orchestrate their supply chain to help meet their specific needs. That same composability can allow companies to extend and expand their solutions at their own rate with minimal disruption to existing processes.

Native connectivity with 麻豆原创鈥檚 ERP and additional extended function applications can provide the data foundation for multiple artificial intelligence use cases. AI use spans advanced algorithmic machine learning, generative AI for analysis of complex structured and unstructured data, and, soon, agentic AI to analyze data, initiate actions, and ultimately recommend and execute planning decisions. Since supply chain orchestration requires multi-enterprise collaboration, 麻豆原创 helps provide trading partner connectivity through its best-in-class business network, which can not only connect trading partners for business transactions but also for end-to-end, collaborative, and continuously interactive planning processes.

Supply chain business needs to go far beyond distant promises of what could be and requires solutions that solve real problems today, leveraging the right technology in the right place for the right purpose. 麻豆原创鈥檚 strategy is to provide data, applications, and AI that help keep the business running while continually evaluating evolving technologies that can be practically applied.

麻豆原创 is delighted to be recognized by the IDC MarketScape in supply chain planning. We remain committed to being a trusted partner, providing reliable software solutions that help meet the evolving needs of our customers. We will continue to incorporate new and cutting-edge technologies where they offer clear business value, helping our customers to excel and be their very best.

Sources: IDC Marketscape: Worldwide Supply Chain Planning Overall 2024 Vendor Assessment, November 2024, IDC #US52694624e; IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Supply Chain Planning for Process Industries 2024 Vendor Assessment, October 2024, IDC #US51273023e; IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Supply Chain Planning for Distribution Industries 2024 Vendor Assessment, October 2024, IDC #US51272924e; IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Supply Chain Planning in Discrete Manufacturing 2024 Vendor Assessment, October 2024, IDC #US51272724e

Jay Foster is global product marketing director for Supply Chain Planning at 麻豆原创.

Advanced software solutions have become indispensable tools that facilitate the procurement of essential raw materials and components and help teams manage supplier relationships while managing costs.

As the recognized market-share leader in the overall procurement applications space*, 麻豆原创 consistently sets benchmarks within the industry. I鈥檓 excited to share that 麻豆原创 was recently named a Leader in the .** The report is based on IDC MarketScape鈥檚 comprehensive assessment of 麻豆原创 Ariba solutions and feedback from our customers.

What Makes 麻豆原创 a Leader?

The IDC MarketScape report noted, 鈥溌槎乖� Ariba solutions are strongly positioned to help companies administer spend that spans complex events, direct and indirect, services, and capex.鈥�

The report also identifies several key strengths that make 麻豆原创 a Leader:

• 麻豆原创 has gained an expansive and impressive roster of enterprise client wins across a variety of industries as a result of being a mature, established, and trusted provider of direct sourcing functionality, particularly in the automotive and industrial manufacturing sectors.
• An industry-first category management offering illustrates 麻豆原创’s innovation that is focused on value-added capabilities for its users.
• 麻豆原创 provides a platform that places an emphasis on collaboration via structured, workflow-driven tools that facilitate collaboration across procurement, quality management, logistics, and R&D and engineering.
• Strong industry-leading sourcing optimization and PO collaboration capabilities provide business value and significantly improve operating efficiency.

The report notes 麻豆原创 should be considered when, 鈥淐lients in need of a trusted, enterprise-ready direct sourcing solution that comes with expansive industry-specific expertise and the ability to administer the most complex direct sourcing challenges and offer broad optimization capabilities are well-served by 麻豆原创.鈥�

Vision for the Future of Procurement

The procurement landscape is continuously evolving, with trends like AI integration, automation, and sustainability reshaping how organizations approach direct spend management. With 麻豆原创鈥檚 ongoing investments in innovation and a commitment to addressing customers鈥� most pressing needs, we are leading this transformation. Procurement is a strategic enabler of cost management, risk reduction, and compliance and 麻豆原创 solutions are designed to empower organizations to make strategic, data-driven decisions that optimize their spend and operations.

At  in October, we announced innovations and new capabilities that will  revolutionize the spend management landscape. These include:

• : Our newest solution, which is planned to be available in early 2025, is designed to offer an intuitive and simple user experience. It is planned to automate procurement request creation, routing, and support by orchestrating processes across multiple systems.
• : We鈥檝e begun integrating our generative AI copilot Joule across 麻豆原创 Ariba, 麻豆原创 Business Network, and 麻豆原创 Fieldglass solutions. This will enable organizations to complete complex workflows and manage important tasks quickly and accurately.
• : This innovation can help suppliers receive recommendations to improve discoverability and access to advanced search results, supplier profile verification, and network catalog APIs. The Promote subscription will be available in early 2025 to help suppliers identify sales opportunities based on regional search data, and generative AI tools deliver advanced insights that make it easy to track business growth on the network.

The Exciting New Era Ahead

The future of procurement and direct spend will be defined by groundbreaking technologies to help organizations adapt to an increasingly complex and dynamic global environment.

We believe recognition as a Leader in the 2024 IDC MarketScape Direct Spend Assessment underscores 麻豆原创鈥檚 commitment to driving innovation and enabling businesses to thrive in today鈥檚 competitive environment. By delivering AI-powered innovation, fostering collaboration, and ensuring operational excellence, 麻豆原创 empowers organizations to achieve procurement success on a global scale.

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Baber Farooq is senior vice president of Market Strategy for Procurement Solutions at 麻豆原创.

*IDC Worldwide Procurement Applications Market Shares, 2023: A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats, doc #US52580824, September 2024
**IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Direct Spend 2024 Vendor Assessment, #US52734424e, December 2024

Now, I鈥檓 thrilled to share that 麻豆原创 was the only company that was positioned in the Leaders category of all three IDC MarketScape reports 鈥� (doc #US51740824, July 2024); IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Accounts Payable Automation Software for Midmarket 2024 Vendor Assessment (doc #US52378624, July 2024); and (doc #US52378824, July 2024). 麻豆原创鈥檚 accounts payable solutions, built with AI-first principles, continue to enable the accounts payable function to embrace its strategic role as it becomes a top priority for business operations in today鈥檚 challenging macro environment.

IDC analyst Kevin Permenter adds: 鈥溌槎乖�’s performance in the IDC MarketScape for Accounts Payable Automation Software reports across all three market segments is a testament to the breadth, depth, and reach of 麻豆原创 Ariba and 麻豆原创 Concur accounts payable offerings. 麻豆原创鈥檚 accounts payable offerings infused with AI-first principles, complemented with a strong ecosystem and the unique value proposition of 麻豆原创 Business Network as a frictionless mechanism for buyer and supplier collaboration, show 麻豆原创鈥檚 strength in this market. 麻豆原创 Ariba and 麻豆原创 Concur invoicing offerings help enable companies of all sizes to move to autonomous processing and enable accounts payable and procurement teams to leverage invoices as a strategic asset for growth and profitability.鈥�

Why 麻豆原创 Is a Leader

The IDC MarketScape reports are divided by market size, evaluating for large enterprise and upper midmarket and for small business and lower midmarket. I believe 麻豆原创鈥檚 positioning speaks for itself 鈥� this recognition showcases our role as a leader in the accounts payable automation space as we work to help our customers modernize critical business processes to transform the way they approach financial management. Here鈥檚 why I believe IDC MarketScape positioned 麻豆原创 as a Leader across all three markets:

Strong Ecosystem and Seamless Integration

The IDC MarketScape Worldwide Accounts Payable Automation Software for Large Enterprises report notes that vendors should 鈥渃onsider 麻豆原创 if you are looking for a well-established provider with a robust ecosystem of financial management products that can fit needs of any size business in virtually any industry.鈥�

麻豆原创 Business Network Is a 鈥淭rue Differentiator鈥�

Additionally, the report highlights as a 鈥渇rictionless mechanism鈥� for buyer-supplier collaboration. Our robust network of trading partners helps make it easier than ever for businesses to ensure invoicing accuracy and compliance while staying connected to their trading partners through our extensive network. The report further notes that, 鈥溌槎乖� Ariba source-to-pay suite combined with the network provides accounts payable teams an effective, intelligent, and near-touchless way to manage the invoice-to-pay cycle, helping buyers and suppliers digitize and modernize their source-to-pay processes.鈥�

麻豆原创 Helps Accounts Payable Run Better

The accounts payable function finds itself in a complex landscape of rising interest rates, tightening monetary policies, and supply chain disruptions. Among these challenges, many companies have become accustomed to curveballs that threaten their agility and future success. 麻豆原创 offerings can help accounts payable teams address core pain points:

• Reduce lengthy invoice approval times. With 麻豆原创鈥檚 AI-infused, end-to-end business processes across source-to-pay and ERP solutions, our customers can cut through cycle times with autonomous processing 鈥� from invoice submission to reconciliation. can capture header and line item data fields, finding patterns from historical data to help increase accuracy with each invoice capture.
• Minimize high percentage of exceptions. With global e-invoicing mandates on the rise, customers can reduce exceptions upfront while ensuring compliance. 麻豆原创鈥檚 business rules can validate invoices in real time against local government portals as needed. With 麻豆原创 Business Network, suppliers can submit invoices electronically, streamlining the process and reducing costs.
• Avoid late supplier payments. With working capital management and our early payment offerings within the portfolio, accounts payable teams can pay suppliers on time while leveraging invoices as a strategic asset for growth and profitability, strengthening their relationships with suppliers.

Customers Report Incredible Outcomes

Here are a few examples highlighting what customers have achieved after using 麻豆原创 Ariba and 麻豆原创 Concur solutions to help improve accounts payable processes:

• looked to 麻豆原创 Ariba solutions to reduce its average invoice approval cycle time to just 1.5 days with 50% of supplier invoices transacted electronically in the first year.
• achieved an 84% first-pass invoice-matching rate.
• processes 99% of invoices automatically for over 9,000 vendors.
• achieved 75% invoice-count compliance for 48,000 annual invoices.
• now completes its end-to-end invoice management process in half the amount of time.

I believe this recognition as a Leader in the 2024 IDC MarketScape reports for Worldwide Accounts Payable Automation Software for Small Business, Midmarket, and Large Enterprise markets emphasizes our commitment to driving a new era in redefining accounts payable automation.

Learn more about our accounts payable solutions at .

Baber Farooq is senior vice president for Market Strategy Procurement Solutions at 麻豆原创.

A once nascent market, carbon accounting and management is experiencing a significant transition in the number, type, and capability of solutions available. The landscape formerly comprised of startup and niche vendors has expanded to include large independent software vendors (ISVs) and hyperscalers, all battling for market share.

Organizations are under increasing pressure to track and disclose carbon emissions data to stakeholders including investors, partners, clients, customers, employees, and regulators. Many are collecting data and reporting on Scope 1 and 2 emissions. Scope 3 remains a challenge due to the complexity of reliable data collection and reporting.

Fines and litigation will create a new impetus for reporting as well. Regulations will add a new element of complexity to how companies report. Disclosure of decarbonization initiatives will require unique data analysis and scenario planning tools. The IDC report points to data integration as a principal challenge for carbon accounting vendors.

麻豆原创 Carbon Accounting & Management: Rising to the Challenge

麻豆原创 is well-positioned to provide organizations with data-driven, purpose-specific carbon management solutions that are ERP centric, cloud based, and AI enabled. These include 麻豆原创 Sustainability Footprint Management, 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower, 麻豆原创 Sustainability Data Exchange, the 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud solution for EHS environment management, and 麻豆原创 Green Ledger, which all help to enable carbon accounting and management on a transactional level and transform emissions tracking processes.

Our carbon management solutions are best suited for organizations currently using or planning to use 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud and looking to capture the value of sustainability, as well as manage sustainability-related business risks. Customers can address these objectives by embedding sustainability into their end-to-end business processes, leveraging ERP and supplier data, and using the metrics to inform business processes and financial reporting.

Having the ability to assess carbon and financial data on the same transactional level adds a new dimension to the way organizations address carbon budgets, make capital allocation decisions, and cascade and scale change management. This transformation allows for targeted sustainability actions and more precise financial decisions.

麻豆原创 can leverage its ERP-centric sustainability approach of supporting both corporate and transaction-level product carbon footprints as a differentiator. Integration with other financial applications 鈥� procurement, supply chain, risk, and compliance management 鈥� is a standard feature of the 麻豆原创 Sustainability portfolio.

Staying ahead of carbon taxes, penalties, and upcoming regulatory requirements will also play a key role in how organizations report. Alignment between CFOs and CSOs will become more frequent due to the overlapping responsibilities and sustainability management component, as they affect both corporate risk and cash flow.

According to the IDC MarketScape, 鈥渢he portfolio of sustainability offerings is built on a foundation of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, limiting adoption to the universe of users. Furthermore, while modular in design, much of the solutions鈥� value is dependent on the adoption of multiple system elements, thus commanding a higher price point.鈥� 麻豆原创 is responding with the speed and agility of cloud delivery combined with integrated sustainability data within the core enterprise resource planning system. This will be critical in helping to optimize customers鈥� sustainability and financial performance and become the very foundation of their future business success.

By unifying sustainability and financial data, 麻豆原创 customers can unlock carbon emissions insights, positively impacting decision-making and forecasting on all hierarchical levels. With end-to-end carbon management and the added transactional-level carbon emissions data, organizations can improve operational efficiency, foster emissions transparency, and comply with developing regulations. Achieving a sustainability transformation 鈥� one that benefits the bottom line and the planet 鈥� is truly within reach. Find out more .

The IDC study provides a comprehensive analysis of carbon management platforms, highlighting the increasing need for organizations to track, manage, and report carbon emissions amid evolving regulatory landscapes and stakeholder pressures. It evaluates vendors based on their capabilities and strategies to meet future customer needs, focusing on innovation, customer satisfaction, and the ability to support organizations in their decarbonization efforts. “In an era of escalating environmental scrutiny, mastering carbon accounting is not just compliance, but a strategic imperative for future-proofing businesses,” said Amy Cravens, research manager, ESG Reporting and Management Applications at IDC.

Alicia Lenze is global head of Sustainability Marketing at 麻豆原创 SE.

provides a unified, intelligent work experience for the modern workforce.

2024 IDC MarketScape: Experience-Centric Intelligent Digital Workspaces Recognition

麻豆原创 has been recognized as a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Experience-Centric Intelligent Digital Workspaces 2024 Vendor Assessment (doc # US49741923, January 2024), based on IDC analysts and customer feedback. We believe this recognition acknowledges 麻豆原创鈥檚 ongoing dedication in delivering a modern, robust digital workplace solution to optimize user engagement and productivity, and to drive overall business agility.

IDC defines an intelligent digital workspace as a well-organized system of tools working together to enhance end users鈥� overall productivity and experiences. This system integrates intentional design, engineering, and artificial intelligence (AI) to provide a customized and seamless view of tools for user tasks. It ensures secure access to resources from any location or device and enables IT and security professionals with complete oversight.

As stated within this IDC MarketScape report, 鈥淐lient organizations we interviewed noted that 麻豆原创 Build Work Zone reinforced the importance of collaboration and knowledge management.鈥�

Here are the additional highlights on strengths of 麻豆原创 Build Work Zone noted in the report:

• A unified digital workspace: 麻豆原创 Build Work Zone supports building blocks of content, user interface (UI) integration cards, and home page widgets to embed and display 麻豆原创 or third-party business data in one workspace. Guided experiences sit on top of workflows to guide the user journey.
• Streamlined user tasks: 麻豆原创 Task Center is used within 麻豆原创 Build Work Zone to act as a unified inbox to provide one place for all approvals and to dos. Global announcements can be tracked for reads and to check length of time spent on content items with native 麻豆原创 analytics, or with third-party tools such as Google Analytics or Qualtrics. Customers have noted that 麻豆原创 Build Work Zone provided a friendly UI and access to all functionality on the mobile app.
• Seamless connection to a comprehensive product suite: 麻豆原创 Build Work Zone is used to connect the 麻豆原创 suite of capabilities — including 麻豆原创 S/4 HANA, 麻豆原创 Success Factors, and 麻豆原创 Integrated Business Planning solutions — to handle workflow and collaboration of tasks across multiple IT and business users. 麻豆原创 Build Work Zone offers pre-built workspace templates with public, private, or external access and an impersonation feature to preview workspaces in-context of specific audience segments.

Evolving the Digital Workplace with 麻豆原创 Build Work Zone  

Unify Experiences Enterprise-Wide

Business users gain centralized access to 麻豆原创 and non-麻豆原创 business applications, processes, and information, including custom-built apps and extensions, from desktop to mobile using 麻豆原创 Build Work Zone. The solution offers a personalized, role-based user experience, for example, allowing business users to quickly search for applications or information they need, promptly manage tasks and notifications through the integrated inbox, and stay updated on content, apps, workflows, and processes that are seamlessly integrated across the business landscape without constantly switching around applications or leaving their desktops.

Build Workspaces Simpler and Faster with Low-Code

Business users are empowered to build and customize business sites visually. They can build branded sites, pages, and workspaces for different purposes and complexity. Our pre-built line-of-business content — including home pages, workspaces, integrations, and guided experiences — dramatically accelerates their time-to-value. For example, HR users can create pages for benefits announcements and design workspaces for learning academies. With the flexibility to design a tailored digital experience, business users can organize their work intuitively by bringing together their favorite business applications and unstructured content side-by-side, within a unified environment.

UI integration cards is a powerful widget to visualize data from back-end systems, allowing business users to quickly gain business insights into, for example, purchasing trends, account receivable overview, or compliance checklist. In addition, guided experiences streamline complex, difficult processes that span multiple systems, transforming them into simple, fast, and error-free experiences. This empowers business users to self-service their way through cross-application processes such as onboarding, returning to work, or submitting parental leave requests with ease and confidence.

麻豆原创 Build Work Zone is part of that enables the people closest to the business problems to create and augment enterprise applications, automation processes, and design workspaces and business sites visually.

Optimize Team Effectiveness Within and Beyond the Enterprise

麻豆原创 Build Work Zone is also designed to amplify team effectiveness across internal employees, external customers, partners, and suppliers. Business users can visually create workspaces to facilitate better team engagement through knowledge sharing, streamlined business processes execution, content management, and implementing best practices. They can also leverage surveys, polls, and interactive Q&A sessions to gather valuable feedback, improving communication and work synergy.

Many 麻豆原创 Build Work Zone customers have created purpose-built business sites to actively engage with their external customers, partners, and suppliers. For example, a supplier business site is created for suppliers to self-service various business operations, including supplier onboarding, accessing policies, managing account payables and invoicing processes, and obtaining product knowledge along with Q&As. By empowering suppliers to address their requirements and needs, not only enhances their engagement and efficiency but also saves internal teams鈥� time for more impactful, high-value activities. 聽

Unlock the Future of Digital Workplaces

Like many customers and partners, chose 麻豆原创 Build Work Zone and 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform (麻豆原创 BTP) to improve more than 5,000 business assistant鈥檚 user experience and productivity across more than 1,700 dental practices within the national dental network. Since its initial rollout in 2023, it has been reported that 33 hours per day have been saved across the initial 200 supported offices.

Looking ahead, 麻豆原创 remains dedicated to delivering the best-in-class innovations to our customers to enable their business success, such as injecting business AI capabilities by enabling 麻豆原创 Joule as the digital assistant for intelligent interactions within 麻豆原创 Build Work Zone.

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Sid Misra is vice president for Product Marketing and Solution Management at 麻豆原创.

About IDC MarketScape Experience-Centric Intelligent Digital Workspaces
This IDC research explores the intelligent digital workspace environment, offering further insights on the pace of adoption, the potential success of technology, and the level of market excitement. This aims to empower IT and business decision-makers to evaluate investments based on their own judgments.

That鈥檚 why we鈥檝e built our industry-leading suite of spend management solutions that span direct and indirect procurement, external workforce, and travel and expense management. These solutions help you gain visibility into your supply chains, procure what鈥檚 critical to get the job done, and protect your bottom line 鈥� whether you鈥檙e simplifying expense, travel, and accounts payable processes, or finding the right talent to ensure your company鈥檚 profitability.

With our core commitment to 麻豆原创 Business AI, we are focused on applying generative AI technology to all categories of spend. Like my colleague says, we鈥檙e 鈥渄riving efficiency, quality, and insight into processes that cut across spend management.鈥� Here are we鈥檙e hard at work on.

Our spend management and business network solutions continue evolving and improving with time 鈥� and 2024 will be no different. But before I get ahead of myself, let鈥檚 reflect on the incredible last half of 2023, which has laid the foundation for all the amazing innovation to come in 2024.

Enhancing Your Control over Company Spend 

New enhancements to 麻豆原创 Ariba solutions, 麻豆原创 Concur solutions, and 麻豆原创 Business Network can take spend management from the most mundane part of your day to the most strategic. Here are a few enhancements we announced late last year:

• Region-specific strategy and planning for category management: Different regions of the world require different procurement strategies. The ability to in 麻豆原创 Ariba Category Management is now a reality. With its advanced analytics, AI-driven insights, and integrated frameworks and tools, users of 麻豆原创 Ariba Category Management can reap the benefits of data-driven decision-making, identification of strategic sourcing opportunities, and mitigation of risks.
• The biggest Concur Travel release to date: As we continue rolling out the globally, the new end-to-end booking experience became available for customers whose travel management companies use the Sabre GDS from the U.S. point of sale for air, hotel, and car rental bookings. Congratulations to all our customers that made the strategic switch.
• Supplier catalogs within 麻豆原创 Business Network: With the newly released , suppliers can upload a catalog that is publicly searchable and viewable by buyers on the network. With a network catalog, suppliers can maintain a single list of all the products they offer, creating high-quality buyers looking for the exact items listed. More improvements to the catalog and user demos are coming your way soon.

Customer Love

With Valentine’s Day coming up, it鈥檚 only right to brag about all the customer love we鈥檝e been receiving. Words of affirmation is our love language.

• 麻豆原创 Fieldglass is the .
• 麻豆原创 Ariba is the .
• 麻豆原创 Concur is the in Expense, Travel & Expense, and Invoicing.

To top it off, , , and swept the 2023聽鈥淏est Of鈥� Awards from TrustRadius! TrustRadius, the most trusted review site for business technology, also released more wins for our spend management solutions:

• is Top Rated in Workforce Management, Contractor Management, Freelance Management, and Vendor Management Systems (VMS).
• is Top Rated聽in Procurement, Expense Management, and Supply Chain Management.
• is Top Rated in Expense Management, Travel Management, and Accounts Payable.

麻豆原创 Recognized by IDC MarketScape

I am also thrilled to announce that 麻豆原创 was positioned as a Leader in the聽IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Multi-Enterprise Supply Chain Commerce Network 2023 Vendor Assessment.*

According to the assessment report, 鈥溌槎乖� Business Network is a comprehensive B2B collaboration platform that connects people, processes, and systems across multiple enterprises, digitizing transactions and creating transparent, resilient, and sustainable supply chains.鈥�

The report highlights these 麻豆原创 strengths:

• Depth and breadth of product features, functionality, future road map covering all major B2B collaboration categories (indirect, direct material, MRO logistics, financial, services, sustainability), and scenarios in an end-user, persona-based manner
• Integration and extensibility capabilities including integration between 麻豆原创 ERP, 麻豆原创 procurement modules, and other applications (other ERP, SCAM, and customer applications) and technologies (machine learning, AI, blockchain) through 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform
• Global adoption and breadth of collaboration among the industry’s largest, highly adopted B2B collaboration platforms, enabling trading partners to collaborate in real time
• Ongoing efforts to harmonize commerce, asset intelligence, and logistics continue to enhance the power of the connected economy.

Thank you to our customers and my colleagues for collaborating on this fantastic win.

Customer Success Stories

Al Dahra, one of the world鈥檚 largest agribusiness logistics companies, manages food and animal feed supply chains from its home in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to countries around the globe. to gain greater visibility into daily operations and as its digital solution to connect the company with its partners and clients.

Building material manufacturer Heidelberg Materials AG knew that visibility across its supplier base was key to enabling the smart decision-making that would help it improve financial performance while meeting sustainability goals. See how it achieved this by .

Watch how Chobani, America’s top Greek yogurt brand, uses to fully automate its expense processes.

BT Group aims to be the world鈥檚 most trusted connector of people, devices, and machines. Read how it to deliver a modernized, connected colleague experience.

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If you鈥檙e lucky enough to attend this year, don鈥檛 miss my colleague Etosha Thurman, chief marketing & solutions officer for 麻豆原创 Intelligent Spend and Business Network, presenting in the keynote. She will be demonstrating transformative AI in 麻豆原创 Concur travel, expense, and invoicing solutions, and how we鈥檙e creating a world where travel and expenses can practically manage themselves.

Jeff Collier is chief revenue officer for 麻豆原创 Intelligent Spend and Business Network.

*Source: 鈥�,” by Simon Ellis, December 2023, IDC #US49948423.

Why 麻豆原创 Is a Leader

In an increasingly digitalized world, it is imperative that companies stay connected via a business network. I believe 麻豆原创 was selected as a Leader because 鈥� our entry into the Multi-Enterprise Supply Chain Commerce Network space 鈥� can successfully drive buyer-supplier collaboration across procurement, supply chain, logistics, and asset management by providing a digital platform for trading partners to collaborate externally and exchange data just as, if not more, efficiently as their own internal processes.

The IDC MarketScape report notes these competitive strengths of 麻豆原创 Business Network:

• Depth and breadth of product features and functionalities, as well as a future road map covering all major B2B collaboration categories (indirect, direct material, MRO logistics, financial, services, and sustainability) and scenarios in an end user, persona-based manner.
• Integration and extensibility capabilities include integration between 麻豆原创 ERP, 麻豆原创 procurement modules, other applications like ERP, SCAM, and customer applications, and technologies such as machine learning, AI, and blockchain through 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform (麻豆原创 BTP).
• Global adoption and breadth of collaboration makes 麻豆原创 among the industry’s largest, highly adopted B2B collaboration platforms enabling trading partners to collaborate in real time. Ongoing efforts to harmonize commerce, asset intelligence, and logistics continue to enhance the power of the connected economy.

The IDC MarketScape report notes, 鈥淢anufacturers and retailers looking for a vendor of both a multi-enterprise network and supply chain procurement application should consider 麻豆原创,鈥� citing the 鈥渂readth and depth of [its] business network capabilities, strategic road map vision, and unmatched integration with core 麻豆原创 and non-麻豆原创 supply chain and procurement applications,鈥� making 麻豆原创 a strong choice.

Charting the Evolution of 麻豆原创 Business Network

I鈥檓 so pleased that as a pioneer in business networks, we continue to be recognized for our commitment to executing our vision. As we鈥檝e continued to evolve our road map, I鈥檓 reflecting on how far we鈥檝e come and paved the way for the future of intelligent business networks. From the founding of Ariba Supplier Network in 1996 to what we鈥檝e become today, 麻豆原创 Business Network touches US$4.9 trillion in commerce annually across many business processes and industries and has over 2 million active users on the network.

Recent years have shown us that intelligent, digital business networks are essential to supporting an agile supply chain. 麻豆原创 Business Network is a comprehensive platform that helps connect people, processes, and systems across multiple enterprises, ultimately creating transparent, resilient, and sustainable supply chains that can span the globe and be tailored to each line of business, helping to drive partner collaboration beyond a company鈥檚 own four walls and spanning the entire value chain.

I鈥檓 proud to say that 麻豆原创 Business Network can provide best-in-class supply chain collaboration, helping companies adhere to legal mandates, scale with confidence, and automate repetitive tasks, leaving more time for strategic decision-making informed by patterns gleaned from vast amounts of data. Our vision 鈥� what so many talented people at 麻豆原创 are working towards every day 鈥� is to create the world鈥檚 best and largest B2B marketplace to help our customers meet their business goals.

Recent Advancements Continue to Revolutionize B2B Collaboration

If you know 麻豆原创, you know about our commitment to continuous innovation. In 2023, we announced many exciting innovations around 麻豆原创 Business Network, including:

• Build on artificial intelligence in 麻豆原创 Business Network. My colleague Muhammad Alam to further integrate generative AI in spend management at 麻豆原创 Spend Connect Live. Customers can look forward to enriched supplier responses to 麻豆原创 Business Network Discovery postings, helping to facilitate more transparent communication between buyers and suppliers. Generative AI improvements can give suppliers the ability to generate clear, concise catalog descriptions, as well as summarize common errors for users so buyers can find exactly what they鈥檙e looking for.
• Tackle industry-specific challenges with 麻豆原创 Business Network for Industry. We鈥檝e combined our more than 50 years of industry knowledge with the power of business networks to help customers address industry-specific supply chain challenges. Take a look at to help predict and respond to disruptions, comply with industry regulations, and meet sustainability goals.
• Learn more with trading partner insights. Account managers struggle with obtaining comparative measures to assess the performance of trading partners. New KPIs and benchmarks, presented in a streamlined dashboard, can allow suppliers to evaluate customer transaction performance of orders, invoices, and payments with automatically generated KPIs and 麻豆原创 Business Network community benchmarks. These insights can support collaborative dialogues with customers to help reduce transaction costs and mitigate business risk. .
• Draw insights from data with component planning collaboration. With component planning collaboration, buyers and suppliers can view the forecast planning data for a finished good together with its components. Armed with this visibility, buyers and suppliers can respond to material shortages and adjust production accordingly, making supply more predictable. .

Stay tuned for more exciting innovations this year. Stay up-to-date about recent and upcoming innovations and explore road maps .

Transforming the Future of Business Networks

I am proud that 麻豆原创 is being recognized as a leader in delivering solutions that connect people, processes, and systems, enabling trading partners to collaborate effectively. I can鈥檛 wait to see our road map continue to come to life as we collaborate with our customers to develop innovations that help them achieve their business objectives by automating tasks, scaling efficiently, and operating sustainably.

To learn more, visit and read the full IDC MarketScape report .

Tony Harris is senior vice president and chief marketing and solutions officer for 麻豆原创 Business Network.

*IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor鈥檚 position within a given market. The Capabilities score measures vendor product, go-to-market and business execution in the short-term. The Strategy score measures alignment of vendor strategies with customer requirements in a 3-5-year timeframe. Vendor market share is represented by the size of the circles. Vendor year-over-year growth rate relative to the given market is indicated by a plus, neutral or minus next to the vendor name.

Based on an IDC analysis and customer feedback, 麻豆原创 has been positioned in the Leaders Category of the .*

For those of us at 麻豆原创 who have been working to deliver that help organizations work more strategically and efficiently, this is another milestone as we continue to advance up the leader board. More significantly, it is gratifying to know that this positioning is not just based on the IDC MarketScape鈥檚 detailed examination of our solutions. It鈥檚 also based on the word of our customers.

According to the IDC MarketScape鈥檚 assessment report, 鈥溌槎乖� Ariba is a mature, established, and trusted brand鈥sers expressed that the integration with 麻豆原创 ERP and SCM products is a compelling feature.鈥�

The report highlights these 麻豆原创 strengths:

• Integrated sourcing functionality leverages capabilities across spend analytics, supplier identification, 麻豆原创 Business Network, analytics/reporting dashboards, and contract management to serve as a “force multiplier” and provides a view to total cost impact of sourcing decisions.
• Milestone/project view extends functionality beyond simple sourcing events and provides all impacted stakeholders with the ability to follow progress, achieve milestones, assess the sourcing strategy, and provide input.
• Complex sourcing capabilities are strong, providing the ability to plan and execute large and compliant global sourcing events that come with a myriad of deliverables and complex pricing. Client references noted and appreciated the ability to scale and support sourcing events often involving many thousands of line items.

The IDC MarketScape report says, 鈥淐onsider 麻豆原创 when you need a trusted, enterprise-grade sourcing application that can be utilized for large, complex, and global sourcing activities while also leveraging the capabilities of the full 麻豆原创 Ariba solutions.鈥�

Continuing Our Commitment to Customer-Focused Innovation

I believe one of the reasons 麻豆原创 continues to advance its leadership position is our commitment to steady innovation. However, this is not just innovation for innovation鈥檚 sake. We carefully study the day-to-day role that sourcing and procurement professionals play today and, importantly, how that role is evolving. With these insights, we build solutions that are designed to help sourcing and procurement teams play an increasingly valuable role within their organizations.

In just the past year, we have introduced a slew of innovations:

• empowers category managers to use data insights strategically to help identify trends, develop and implement strategies, and evaluate success relative to tangible business metrics. Just a few weeks ago at 麻豆原创 Spend Connect, we announced enhancements to 麻豆原创 Ariba Category Management with the power of generative AI to help procurement professionals build comprehensive and effective category strategies faster. We also highlighted Joule, which will be embedded across the 麻豆原创 portfolio and available in 麻豆原创 Spend Management solutions in 2024. Integration with large language models through 麻豆原创 Business AI empowers procurement professionals to jump-start category strategy development and planning. Generative AI enables us to enhance our market analysis tool, offering valuable, visual insights into supply and demand, risk, opportunity, and top suppliers. .
• The next evolution of the guided buying capability in 麻豆原创 Ariba solutions provides a personalized buying experience for today鈥檚 professional and casual buyers. It leverages AI to offer suggestions for specific work roles, and intelligent recommendations to help weigh the sustainability and environmental impact of a purchase. Much of this functionality is available today with more to come in future releases. .
• 麻豆原创 Spend Control Tower delivers comprehensive spend analysis capabilities. To make it easier for procurement professionals to make timely, informed decisions, new dashboards in 麻豆原创 Ariba Sourcing and 麻豆原创 Ariba Buying embed near real-time insights where they are most useful — within key process workflows. These capabilities are available today and built on a new architecture that helps create the foundation for future innovation. Beginning in the first quarter of 2024, can help uncover cost-saving opportunities with advanced AI features and the ability to see across all spend — in cloud ERP, 麻豆原创 Ariba, 麻豆原创 Fieldglass, and 麻豆原创 Concur solutions.
• With risk-aware procurement with AI-infused risk assessment in source-to-settle solutions, 麻豆原创 has embedded AI-powered supplier risk assessment capabilities into its source-to-settle solutions to help business users make smarter decisions faster. This can make it possible to assess risk profiles within the sourcing, contracting, and buying solutions as an integral part of these processes to determine third-party risk. Supplier risk assessment capabilities are available today in 麻豆原创 Ariba Sourcing, 麻豆原创 Ariba Contracts, and 麻豆原创 Ariba Buying.
• Supporting the future of supplier management, at 麻豆原创 Spend Connect Live we provided a sneak preview of a feature we refer to as “the new supplier 360,鈥� which can deliver instant access to risk data, AI-powered sustainability information, and operational evaluation to help track metrics like price variance. .

Want to read more about these innovations? Check out our announcement from 麻豆原创 Spend Connect Live 2023 that provides additional detail.

Why 麻豆原创 is a Leader

With our steady stream of innovations designed to help businesses solve their biggest sourcing challenges, I am not surprised that 麻豆原创 is once again a Leader in the . Of course, we don鈥檛 intend to stop here.

Looking ahead, we know that sourcing professionals are looking for an intuitive user experience that allows them to focus on strategic, value-added tasks. And as we have seen recently, they are eager to use generative AI, analytics, and to support them.

Of course, AI is only as effective as the quality and availability of data. A huge amount of data and transactions run through 麻豆原创鈥檚 and . This makes us uniquely qualified to help organizations — large and small — access the data they need, interpret it, and take decisive action.

As we have already shown, 麻豆原创 is in the best position to deliver the broad-based use cases that businesses will need to stay competitive as conditions evolve.

Baber Farooq is senior vice president and head of Market Strategy for 麻豆原创 Procurement Solutions.

*鈥淚DC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Sourcing Applications 2023 Vendor Assessment鈥� November 2023, IDC #US51215923e

Finance leaders worldwide have witnessed dramatic changes in their operations over the last few years 鈥� ranging from unforeseen vulnerabilities and stricter regulations to wide swings in market volatility. In response to those experiences, most of them have intensified their focus on digitalizing their treasury and risk management practices to protect their company鈥檚 liquidity and cash management position.

The of software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud-enabled enterprise treasury and risk management applications vendors notes the rising interest in treasury and risk management solutions. According to the report, 鈥淭reasury management solutions are finding themselves in the spotlight. Common features of treasury management systems include liquidity and cash management, proving them invaluable to businesses struggling to maintain an accurate picture of their cash flow and current liquidity ratios.鈥�

But the IDC MarketScape also forewarns that 鈥渨hile these features are extremely useful, they can fall under scrutiny if not updated and streamlined according to the current needs of users.鈥�

Build Confidence with Continuous Innovation in the Cloud

Finance organizations have hundreds of to consider. However, according to the IDC MarketScape, the right investments circulate data originating from treasury operations across all finance areas and outside them to investors, lenders, government agencies, banking and financing partners, suppliers, and customers.

Cloud technologies 鈥� like those from the 麻豆原创 solution portfolio 鈥� are proving to be real difference makers in achieving this goal for companies willing to adopt them.

The IDC MarketScape report recognized 麻豆原创 as a Leader among SaaS and cloud-enabled enterprise . The report noted that companies should consider 麻豆原创 鈥渋f you are looking for a well-established vendor with a platform with extensive integration and all-in-one capabilities.鈥�

麻豆原创 solutions help deliver a unified platform for end-to-end business processes with a broad portfolio 鈥� which includes treasury management, enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management, supply chain management, and business intelligence 鈥� to manage cash, risk, and treasury-related transactions. And this ecosystem can be further integrated and extended through 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform (麻豆原创 BTP) and supported by the 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud solution and 麻豆原创 Business Network.

鈥淭he solution provides organizations with a centralized platform for managing their financial transactions and cash positions and helping optimize cash flow, reduce risk, and improve financial decision-making,鈥� the report states.

As a result, 麻豆原创 customers worldwide are benefiting from two critical strengths when using our treasury and risk management technologies in either a public or private cloud environment:

• A single source of truth based on streamlined processes and enterprise-wide integration of transactional and master data
• Smoother access to cash-flow sources to help optimize working capital requirements and processes more effectively

For example, leverages these advantages to automate its treasury function and gain a real-time view of its cash management position across 27 countries. This approach allows the airline to use straight-through processing, upload bank statements automatically, and eliminate the need for manual intervention.

Now that 85% of the transactions in its main general operating account are automated, JetBlue no longer needs to access individual banking portals to oversee cash management. Instead, it has a central repository of all bank account details.

Transform the Treasury to Drive Financial Resilience

As finance leaders face an ever-evolving landscape of vulnerabilities, regulatory tightening, and market volatility, the urgency to digitalize treasury and risk management practices will continue to grow. And as evidenced in the 2023 IDC MarketScape report, this growing interest emphasizes the value placed on liquidity and cash management for cash-flow accuracy.

By providing a unified platform, we believe finance organizations have the end-to-end processes and real-time insights they need to optimize cash flow, reduce risk, and enhance decision-making.

To learn more, download a complimentary excerpt of the .

Ido Shamgar is senior director of Cloud ERP Product Marketing at 麻豆原创.

In March, 麻豆原创 was named a Leader in the (Doc #US48785722, March 2023). 麻豆原创 Ariba was named a Leader in the 2021 vendor assessment for this same market.

The IDC MarketScape noted, 鈥溌槎乖� Ariba is a mature, established, and trusted brand. Brand perception is high, and users expressed that the integration with 麻豆原创 ERP and supply chain management (SCM) products is a compelling feature.鈥� The report also noted that 鈥溌槎乖� Ariba solutions are strongly positioned to help companies administer spend that spans complex events, direct and indirect, services, and capex.鈥�

But this progress didn鈥檛 happen overnight. My colleague Baber Farooq said it best in his piece: 鈥淲e鈥檝e worked hard to evolve our vision, focusing on delivering a complete suite of solutions that enables our customers and their trading partners to manage spend with total visibility 鈥� while never losing sight of the people who use these solutions.鈥�

麻豆原创 was also named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled P2P Applications 2023 Vendor Assessment (Doc #US50464223, March 2023) and a Major Player in the (Doc #US48785822, March 2023).

The IDC MarketScape for Buy-Side Contract Life-Cycle noted, 鈥淐onsider 麻豆原创 when you need a robust contract management platform that supports the full contract life cycle, collaboration, and audit trails and that drives more efficient negotiations, provides an intuitive interface, and delivers reduced administrative costs and time.鈥�

Over the past couple of years, our commitment to delivering the most complete set of procurement solutions, from sourcing and supplier networks to supplier relationship management, contract lifecycle management, spend analytics, procure-to-pay, and sustainability, has only grown stronger. And we鈥檙e seeing that commitment pay off with more recognition for our extensive capabilities within 麻豆原创鈥檚 procurement suite.

High Honors from Customers

麻豆原创 customers continue to see the quality and value of our solutions. In January, TrustRadius, which bases its awards on customer reviews, conferred its 2023 Winter 鈥淏est Of鈥� awards on several 麻豆原创 solutions, including , , and .

Each of these solutions took first place in the Best Feature Set, Best Value for Price, and Best Relationship award categories.

And if that wasn鈥檛 enough, our customers rated us as Spring 2023 Leaders on G2 in the following categories:

• 麻豆原创 Concur 鈥� Leader in , , and
• 麻豆原创 Fieldglass 鈥� Leader in
• 麻豆原创 Ariba 鈥� Leader in and

Recognizing Our People

I鈥檝e said this many times, but the people are the best part about working at 麻豆原创. My colleagues are some of the smartest, most committed, and kindest people around. Two of our leaders, Val Blatt and Muhammad Alam, have been named . Blatt is the global head of 麻豆原创 Business Network Customer Success & Go-to-Market; Alam is the president of 麻豆原创 Intelligent Spend and Business Network and general manager of 麻豆原创 Business Network.

Etosha Thurman, chief marketing & solutions officer for 麻豆原创 Intelligent Spend and Business Network, came in at No. 12 in the . She is blazing a new trail in the procurement space, and I couldn鈥檛 be prouder to work together with her every day.

Award-Winning Customers

This time, the celebration isn鈥檛 exclusive to 麻豆原创. We recently named the to celebrate our customers whose innovation achievements exemplify positive economic, environmental, and social impact, help the world run better, and improve people鈥檚 lives. To my delight but not to my surprise, customers using 麻豆原创 spend management solutions were well represented in the winner鈥檚 circle.

Here are a few of their stories:

• is one of America’s leading transportation companies with over 10,000 customers, providing a critical link in the global supply chain. It chose 麻豆原创 Concur solutions to help streamline employee travel and expense management for over 20,000 impacted employees. This implementation was a puzzle piece in its larger journey to the cloud.
• is a leading international bank, headquartered in London and listed on the Stock Exchanges in London and Hong Kong, with a presence in 59 markets. 麻豆原创 Fieldglass solutions were integrated into 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors Employee Central to provide a total workforce management solution for 85,000 employees and 20,000 contingent workers, replacing a more than 20-year-old legacy platform.
• Less than 1% of the US$3 trillion of spend was directed to women-owned businesses. So, it decided to work with 麻豆原创 Ariba solutions to give WECommunity buyers a solution that makes it easier to find and do business with women-owned suppliers in over 135 countries.
• When the pandemic hit, fluctuations in supply and demand significantly increased and transportation resources were limited and unreliable for and much of the world. To optimize its planning and logistics functions for the cooperative鈥檚 $300M supply chain, it deployed 麻豆原创 Business Network for Logistics to help provide deep insights into the transportation and logistics aspects of the business, allowing Blue Diamond Growers to meet demand, address supply gaps, and identify transportation bottlenecks.

If you missed my recent piece on the five lessons learned from Royal DSM when it utilized 麻豆原创 Business Network and 麻豆原创 Ariba solutions to enhance the sustainability of its global indirect procurement, give it a read.

Join Us In Person at 麻豆原创 Sapphire and 麻豆原创 Spend Connect Live

If you鈥檙e a spend management professional or someone who wants to optimize their total spend management platform, make coming to 麻豆原创 Sapphire or 麻豆原创 Spend Connect Live a priority this year.

麻豆原创 Sapphire starts May 16 with a live experience in Orlando and virtual sessions and events that meet you wherever you are. Visit the event page to learn more.

麻豆原创 Spend Connect Live is in Vienna, Austria, October 9-11 鈥� and there鈥檚 so much to look forward to. It鈥檚 the must-attend event for leaders and practitioners in procurement, supply chain, sustainability, 鈥媐inance, logistics, and operational risk. to get the latest updates for 麻豆原创 Spend Connect Live 2023 and save on registration.

Jeff Collier is chief revenue officer for 麻豆原创 Intelligent Spend and Business Network.

Long a leader in facilitating the transformation of procurement, 麻豆原创 has also been named a Leader in the .*

What鈥檚 most gratifying about this latest report is that 麻豆原创 is being recognized for the significant progress we鈥檝e made since the last IDC MarketScape for procurement applications, released in 2021. We鈥檝e worked hard to evolve our vision, focusing on delivering a complete suite of solutions that enables our customers and their trading partners to manage spend with total visibility 鈥� while never losing sight of the people who use these solutions.

From sourcing and supplier networks to supplier relationship management, contract lifecycle management, spend analytics, procure-to-pay, and sustainability, 麻豆原创 provides a that help businesses solve problems at every point in the procurement process. And, as noted within the IDC MarketScape report, 鈥溌槎乖� Ariba solutions are strongly positioned to help companies administer spend that spans complex events, direct and indirect, services, and CAPEX.鈥�

The report also cites these strengths:

• 麻豆原创 Ariba is a mature, established, and trusted brand. Brand perception is high, and users expressed that the integration with 麻豆原创 ERP and supply chain management products is a compelling feature.
• The guided buying capability and the guided sourcing capability for 麻豆原创 Ariba Sourcing were cited by all reference clients as extremely useful. One client reference even referred to the capabilities as “lovely.” 麻豆原创 has continued to innovate in this space with multiple enhancements and next-generation offerings currently in the works.
• 麻豆原创’s exceptional industry expertise, particularly in fields such as energy and natural resources, banking, chemicals, and automotive, is cited as a differentiator by multiple client references. 麻豆原创’s experience and offerings in the direct sourcing space drives significant buyer interest.

True to Our Roots

Procurement transformation is nothing new to 麻豆原创. It鈥檚 in our DNA. The electronic catalogs and material requirements planning processes that changed the game started here. Additionally, has revolutionized the way goods are bought and sold. It is used by more buyers and sellers to connect and collaborate across procurement, supply chain, logistics, and asset management than any other network on the planet.

Committed to Innovation

For 麻豆原创, innovation is about assessing the business environment and listening to our customers, then responding with powerful tools to help them combat their business challenges. Building on an established, trusted product portfolio and clear road map, we continue to deliver innovations that help organizations address the procurement challenges of today and prepare for tomorrow.

Here are two procurement innovations we鈥檙e introducing this year, along with a sneak preview of an innovation we have in the works:

• The next evolution of guided buying: The guided buying capability in 麻豆原创 Ariba solutions is the gold standard for purchases of goods and services. Its next evolution provides a buying experience that is personalized for today鈥檚 professional and casual buyers and their roles. It is predictive, leveraging artificial intelligence to offer suggestions for specific work roles as well as intelligent recommendations to help them make the right decisions and weigh the sustainability and environmental impact of their decisions. Many of the capabilities will be included within the guided buying capability this year, as well as in future releases.
• A new category management solution: Today, category management consists of highly manual processes, leaving almost no time for category managers to develop or implement effective strategies. Our new category management solution, which we鈥檒l roll out this year, provides actionable market intelligence and category insights. It empowers category managers and procurement professionals to make strategic category decisions for direct and indirect spending. Additionally, it offers intuitive scenario analysis to help visualize opportunities.
• Total spend reporting: While we can鈥檛 reveal too much right now, stay tuned to hear more about what we have in store to enable total spend visibility for your business.

Focused on Users

Every person across the procure-to-pay process has a different role to play. We鈥檝e made it our mission to understand the needs and priorities of every user persona and to deliver unique, intuitive tools that each can use to reach their goals. For example, an employee doing material requirements planning (MRP) for the procurement of direct materials will have a different experience than someone purchasing a laptop or managing contingent labor.

Risk Management and Sustainability

Given the supply chain disruptions of the past few years, business leaders understand the importance of risk management. In fact, in a 2022 sponsored by 麻豆原创, respondents said risk reduction was the second most important area to focus on to deliver increased value in procurement. In the same survey, nearly a quarter of the executives identified sustainability and environmental, social, and governmental (ESG) concerns among the top priorities for organizational risk.

Social responsibility legislation is only adding to the pressure. For example, Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz (LkSG) is an act that took effect in Germany this year. It requires companies to report on the ability of their risk management system to address violations in their supply chain to the German government no later than April 2024.

Businesses need a single source of truth across the entire supply base to support risk-aware core processes. 麻豆原创 innovations can help facilitate risk management and sustainability requirements with the newly enhanced solution and , along with additional extensions to address company-specific requirements.

Delivering Solutions for the Future

Procurement has changed significantly in the last two decades. 麻豆原创 is pleased to be recognized as a leader in driving this change, and we remain committed to delivering next-generation applications that help our customers transform their business for continued success.

Baber Farooq is senior vice president and head of Market Strategy for 麻豆原创 Procurement Solutions.

*鈥淚DC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Procurement Applications 2023 Vendor Assessment鈥� March 2023, IDC #US48785722