“Procurement automation-overcoming dearth of supply automation” is a whitepaper.

“Driving compliance- Persistent issue for procurement organizations” is a whitepaper.

“Analyze This – Top 10 metrics to strengthen organizational procurement practices” is a whitepaper. This paper analyzes the metrics to tracking procurement process and strengthening the same. With the advent of Big Data and sophisticated tools, it is now possible for procurement professionals to study granular data, including dashboards that are customized for individual users.

“Taking a 360 approach to supplier management” is a research report by Andrew Bartolini, Chief Research Officer, Ardent Partners and underwritten by Zycus. Business in 2014 is remarkably different than it was five years ago and it will be remarkably different five years from now. Product lifecycles are collapsing as are the windows available for

“5 steps for effective supply chain management” is a whitepaper. We live in difficult times where volatility is the norm. For any business leader today the top challenge is cost. As business leaders across industry sectors work towards realizing cost efficiencies, with millions of dollars at stake, the role of sourcing has become very important.

Better sourcing and supplier management describes the integration of competitive procurement discipline with sustained supplier relationship investment to deliver outcomes that neither approach achieves independently. Sourcing without supplier management produces contracts that underperform because relationships are not invested in and supplier capability is not developed. Supplier management without effective sourcing produces dependency and commercial complacency

“The path to supplier management excellence” is an eBook. Suppliers have a direct impact on an organization’s product/service quality, competitiveness and product innovation. A good liaison between the buyer and the suppliers offers multiple benefits like reduced risk towards supply disruptions, environmental problems and/or safety issues. Implementing corrective actions before one of these problems results

“Advanced Spend Analysis: A new offering for your procurement initiatives” is a whitepaper.

“8 Reasons to go for Integrated Source-to-Pay Suite” is a whitepaper. Read this whitepaper to understand: 1. Why is an integrated solution suite better equipped to provide deeper insights? 2. How can enterprises save 24%-41% more per sourcing project by leveraging spend analysis? 3. How linking & automating P2P process can reduce invoice cost by

“Spend Analysis: Making sense of Data” is a whitepaper. This paper talks about the challenges and benefits of spend data classification.