As companies operate with tighter technology spending budgets while also seeking to further digitally transform their operations, technology suppliers need to expand offerings like product trials, giving customers greater insight into exactly how a new product will integrate with existing infrastructure, Sharon Ruddock of SAP Digital Commerce writes.
Businesses are adjusting to the “new normal” and spending more through e-procurement on technology and services that support remote work environments, according to the Coupa Business Spend Index.
Merchandise buyers like Cristina Wilson of clothing retailer Ooh La Luxe and Brooke Howerton of The Paisely Heart discuss why they are purchasing through the FashionGO online marketplace, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Above: Howerton (holding a T) and the staff of The Paisely Heart.
The $1.5 billion deal brings Llamasoft’s expertise in supply chain technology embedded with artificial intelligence to Coupa’s suite of clould-based procurement and spend management software.
An effective digital procurement system can help manage multiple organizational goals, including tracking company-wide spending in a decentralized system that authorizes purchasing by a large staff, writes Dave Brittain, director of Amazon Business UK & Ireland.
Repeat digital business is big business for B2B buyers and sellers. In a pandemic-impacted economy where the ecommerce channel is becoming increasingly important as a way to keep corporate procurement flowing, nearly 80% of B2B buyers now make 25% or more of their digital orders as repeat purchases, according to a DC360 B2B survey.
In this second part of a three-part series on government procurement exclusive to Digital Commerce 360 B2B, Anne Rung, director of public sector for Amazon Business, discusses how small businesses can streamline complex and inefficient processes through online stores to overcome “longstanding and complex government processes” that she says inhibit small businesses from successfully competing and growing within the government market segment.
Business software supplier Oracle lost a court appeal this week in a battle over a $10 billion Pentagon cloud-computing contract. Although Amazon had been the expected contract winner, the deal went to Microsoft. Above: Oracle's headquarters campus in Redwood City, Calif.