Eprocurement news and trends

Healthcare Procurement Takes The Vantage Point Of The Scientist
Healthcare // June 23, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic became an era of wake-up calls in every sense of the phrase. For businesses, those wake-up calls often came from the business disruptions linked to a lack of digitization in the enterprise and a lack of resiliency in the supply chain. No...

Procurement Pay Buys On.Care, Consolidating Healthcare P2P
Healthcare // June 08, 2021

Procurement Partners, which works in procure-to-pay (P2P) solutions for post-acute care and assisted living facilities, has bought New York-based On.Care, a press release said Tuesday (June 8). On.Care is an eProcurement provider for nursing and assisted living facilities. With the acquisition, Procurement Partners has created...

Tofino, Amazon Integrate On Seamless Procurement
B2B Payments // May 11, 2021

Tofino Software, which works in eProcurement and maintenance repair and operations (MRO) management, is integrating today with Amazon Business, a press release said Tuesday (May 11). The direct punchout to Amazon comes as a way to simplify ordering while managing approvals after checkout, making it...

Medius Rolls Out Supplier Payment Service
B2B Payments // April 26, 2021

Spend management and eProcurement software company Medius has rolled out an end-to-end payment automation offering called Medius Pay, according to a Monday (April 26) announcement. “Many organizations understand the benefits of payment optimization but are limited by internal tools and [organizational] bandwidth to effectively modernize...

Interviews & Exclusives
Market Volatility Gives B2C Sellers’ The Chance To Go B2B

April 01, 2020
Streamlining and fostering strategic supplier relationships is key to optimizing procurement and lowering costs. As more organizations embrace eProcurement technology, firms are looking to shrink their vendor bases to promote efficiency. But inevitably, every business will find itself in a position when it must make an emergency purchase – and when the usual suppliers aren’t […]

B2B Buyers Don’t Have The Online Payments Experience They Want

February 28, 2017
B2B sellers moving online need to keep the customer happy, but according to a new report by CloudCraze, there’s a disconnect between what customers want and what sellers can provide....

End-Of-Summer Investments Keep B2B Startups Growing

September 02, 2016
With more than $83 million in venture capital and growth equity for B2B startups this week, the space is headed for a promising second half of the year. Investors spread...

IoT, Big Data And The Tech Fueling Better B2B eCommerce

August 30, 2016
The worldwide eCommerce industry is headed towards a $781 billion valuation by 2024. That figure, released earlier this month by Transparency Market Research, is driven by the increasing adoption of...

Quick Reads
Discover To Power Payments On JAGGAER Procurement Platform

October 01, 2019
Payments company Discover has entered a new partnership with source-to-pay solution provider JAGGAER to power B2B payments on the JAGGAER ONE procurement platform. In a press release issued Tuesday (Oct. 1), Discover announced its collaboration to enable payments via virtual card from directly within the JAGGAER ONE platform. The virtual card capabilities will go live […]

BigCommerce Takes On B2B eCommerce

March 12, 2019
Online commerce solution provider BigCommerce is adding business-to-business eCommerce to its suite of services. The company said in a press release Tuesday (March 12) that, along with a slew of...

CPOs Are Facing An Uphill Battle

January 07, 2016
Why, in 2016, are accounts payable and procurement teams still seeing paper invoices? That’s the question asked by procure-to-pay firm Zycus in a blog post published this week, also noting...

Making B2B eCommerce Be About More Than Just Looks

September 30, 2015
B2B sales efforts may be migrating online, but according to B2B service provider Tradeshift, while B2B eCommerce may be stylish, many services are still the same old functions that have...