More and more companies are tracking their companies “diverse” vendor population and reporting on purchase percentages and total spend dollars of these diverse vendors. For starters, it is important that we define what we mean by diversity or diverse vendors. Diverse vendors are a designation that is given to companies where a majority of its […]
Read FullOne of the components of vendor management program that is often either overlooked, or over killed with a system that provides lots of complex data to help you “manage” your spend, is spend analysis. For many companies the trick to managing their spend (their colleagues buying behavior) and their vendors performance is to simply look […]
Read FullThis webinar will focus on tools to help streamline and automate back-office processes for manufacturers, foodservice, distribution, retail, restraunant group and other organizations in food and related industries. Due to the nature of this business, complex processes such as distributor finance, rebated, chargebacks, deductions and other labor intense functions can be very costly and time […]
Read FullCloud based solutions are very popular and becoming more so. Estimates are that companies will continue to drive double digit growth in adoption of cloud based solutions well into the future. The benefits of cloud based solutions are well documented and fairly well established at this point. Solutions like vendor portal, supplier portal, vendor onboarding, […]
Read FullFinancial back offices in the food manufacturing, food distribution, food service and related industries are full of complexities due to their dynamic nature – pricing, costs, allowances, rebates, deductions and other information that needs to be up-to-date and accurate. Some of this information can literally change hour to hour. Operational and financial decision makers need […]
Read FullVendor portals and supplier portals can be a powerful tool in enabling vendor self-service in your organization from your procurement and purchasing operations to your accounts payable department. By leveraging the flexibility of a supplier portal or vendor portal companies can automate non-value add processes and let vendors collaborate with your organization on-line, 24x7x365. Vendor […]
Read FullVendor Portals: Procurement to Payables Thursday, September 21st, 2pm ET/11am PT Vendor self-service portals deliver significant returns for procurement, finance & AP. This webinar focuses on vendor portal tools including: vendor on-boarding & maintenance, PO/RFx dispatch & update, payment inquiry, and invoice submission (including PO flip). REGISTER and see how to reduce costs and […]
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Read FullWe wanted to take this opportunity to let you know about ICG’s exciting new pricing and license model. First, all of our pricing will still be based on a “fixed fee” model where what we quote is what you pay… period! What has changed is we have evolved our pricing model from module based pricing […]
Read FullThe activities, transactions, information sharing and collaboration required between the buying company and the vendor can be very manual and time consuming. These tasks also reach across multiple departments such as risk management, accounts payable, legal, security, finance, procurement and many other. Many of these tasks surround collecting and continually updating information from those vendors. […]
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