Thomas Kase, Lead Analyst and Jason Busch, Executive Editor, Spend Matters
For Spend Matters, the best SIM solutions in the marketplace comprise a broad range of features. Ideally, they serve as a repository of data for all internal users. This is an insider’s look at supplier management tools that you’ve never read before.

Thomas Kase, Lead Analyst and Jason Busch, Executive Editor, Spend Matters
This paper provides an insider’s look at a range of supplier management areas including deployment, infrastructure and software selection tips (e.g., when and where multilingual capabilities count – and when they don’t). We also look closely at all the elements required in a supplier information management platform and why they matter as well as configuration options and strategies.

Thomas Kase, Lead Analyst and Jason Busch, Executive Editor, Spend Matters
Unless your procurement experience comes from living on a remote island where the principal means of trade are focused on bartering goods and services, you will have come across supplier information management in some form. If you’ve done your homework, perhaps you have seen one of the many Spend Matters Compass research documents focused on SIM. One example is Supplier Management Compass SIM Technology Fundamentals (Part One and Part Two), and there are several others. These documents help define SIM at the enterprise level. For those who aren’t familiar with the basics of SIM, these two papers can serve as a content bridge between that island and the experienced supplier management mainland.

Thomas Kase, Lead Analyst, and Pierre Mitchell, Chief Research Officer, Spend Matters
This analysis provides a return on investment (ROI) driven approach to building a business case for Supplier Information Management (SIM) systems. It explores several business cases, including Accounts Payable (AP)-focused supplier onboarding and management initiatives, supply risk management, and capturing trade credits with vendors based on AP and supplier invoice data tied to vendor file master information. We later provide ROI elements and some supporting benchmarks for readers to use in building their own customized ROI analyses.