What Is a B2B Procurement Marketplace? and What are its Benefits?
B2B marketplaces simplify business-to-business procurement using a digital platform designed for buyers and suppliers. The platform allows buyers to source new products and suppliers that are pre-qualified to meet the marketplace’s requirements. The procurement marketplace for B2B procurement provides information...
What is Sustainable Procurement and Why it is Important for Businesses?
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) responsibility has rapidly scaled the list of corporate priorities in recent years, and for good reason. Sustainable and socially conscious procurement practices are beneficial for the environment and society, but also directly benefit the business...
What is Purchase Price Variance? Why and How is it Calculated?
In Procurement, Purchase Price Variance (PPV) is the difference between the standard price of a purchased material and its actual price. In Short, Purchase Price Variance = (Actual price – Standard price) x Quantity purchased. What is Purchase Price Variance...
Spend Forecasting is the most important tool for Procurement. Why?
Spend Forecasting is the most important tool for Procurement. Why? Simfoni’s Spend forecasting software combines the analysis of historical data with progressive prediction processes and business intelligence from several sources. Easily predict future profitability and create a forward-looking view on...
What is Category Management? How and Why is it Important?
Category Management is a strategic approach to procurement where businesses segment their spend into areas that contain similar or related products enabling focus opportunities for consolidation and efficiency. When we think of a company and its several departments, we must...
Simfoni Named a 2020 Spend Matters Provider to Watch
Spend Matters once again named Simfoni Analytics in its prestigious, 7th annual “50 Providers to Know/50 Providers to Watch,” list for an impressive fifth consecutive year. Spend Matters compiles the top 50 list from its Almanac containing 450+ vendor descriptions...
6 Strategies to Transition from a Peacetime CPO to Wartime CPO
Procurement strategies can help CPO’s make the right decisions to improve cost savings, decrease supplier risks, enhance innovation and flexibility, and heighten the influence of the procurement office throughout the company. These are times of War. Along the health front,...
Simfoni launches Spend Analytics Business Unit, Appoints Jason Stern as CEO of the Analytics and Expands US Operations to Silicon Valley
San Francisco, CA – April 28th, 2020. Simfoni Limited, a global innovator in Spend Analytics and Spend Automation, announced the appointment of Jason Stern to Chief Executive Officer Simfoni Analytics, and the opening (soon) of an additional office and moving...
Simfoni offers free mapping of your COVID-19 supply risks: Read its methodology for addressing coronavirus problems
In recent days Simfoni has developed a Covid-19 risk assessment dashboard to help its customers assess potential business impact arising from supply chain disruption. Given the acuteness of this situation we have decided to provide this dashboard on a complimentary...
Simfoni raises $3m to accelerate US expansion of its Spend Analytics and Spend Automation Platform
Simfoni, a next generation digital solutions provider for spend analytics and buying automation, today announced that it has raised $3m in Series A financing. The investment was led by BOOST&Co, a global leader in Venture Debt with support from private...
What is Spend Analytics Dashboard
Spend Analytics Dashboard is an interactive dashboard that provides knowledge into an organization’s procurement activities and expenditures. It allows the organization to identify areas for cost reduction and process improvement. Additionally Spend Analytics Dashboard helps in the process of analyzing...
How does the Simfoni Procurement Dashboard work
How do procurement dashboards help companies in any industry track KPIs, perform spend analysis, identify savings opportunities and implement cost reduction strategies to improve their business? Improve Compliance Rate The compliance rate is how completely companies fulfill their contractual agreements...
Big Savings in Small Spend — Tales from the Tail
In the world of strategic sourcing, realizing 5 to 8% savings is considered to be impressive. After all, these are the high-spend categories and are supposedly already well-managed and frequently revisited for improvement opportunities. In contrast, when our clients work...
Mid-Market Procurement — The Pitfalls of Current Approaches
Mid-market companies are at a significant disadvantage when compared to larger corporations — a key finding from Simfoni’s analysis of its customers’ procurement and savings delivery capabilities in mid-market companies. It’s OK to obsess about top-line growth, but what lies beneath...
How To Do Spend Analysis? – The Ultimate Guide
How to do Spend Analysis Guide by Simfoni will help you reduce expenses and provide savings delivery in the long term by helping you identify all the sources available for your spend data by category and department. The Guide also...