Felix Behr

New York

Editor at Spend Matters

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Articles

How to implement a future-ready e-procurement function

2 weeks ago | spendmatters.com | Felix Behr

We continue our Procurement Transformation Guide with a look at implementing an e-procurement transformation. Procurement has moved beyond a transactional function. It is now a strategic enabler of operational efficiency, cost savings and supplier innovation. Yet, many organizations struggle to modernize procurement processes, not due to a lack of technology, but because they fail to align workflows, stakeholder collaboration and automation effectively.
How to implement a future-ready AP function

2 weeks ago | spendmatters.com | Felix Behr

We continue our Procurement Transformation Guide with a look at implementing an accounts payable (AP) digital transformation. AP has come a long way from being just a back-office function. What was once a transactional, paper-heavy process has evolved into a strategic enabler of financial efficiency, cash flow optimization and supplier relationships.
What’s next for contract markup specialists?

3 weeks ago | spendmatters.com | Felix Behr

The contract markup (also known as contract redlining) market has been in an unpredictable situation in recent years. These providers, which solely focus on automated or semi-automated contract markup, often sell to procurement and legal departments and promise greatly expedited contract review times. We have covered many of these providers: <a href=BlackBoiler, LegalSifter, LexCheck, DocJuris, Lexion (acquired by Docusign), etc.
Seven years later: Charting procurement's digital roadmap from automation to AI-driven human augmentation

3 weeks ago | spendmatters.com | Felix Behr

We continue our Procurement Transformation Guide by hearing from Sammy Rashed, a productivity advisor and procurement strategist. For the past 12 years, Sammy Rashed has applied the experience he gained from being a procurement and strategic sourcing leader at Novartis and Merck to serve as the expert facilitator of several practitioners-only Procurement Think Tanks globally.
An emerging threat to the standalone intake and orchestration market

3 weeks ago | spendmatters.com | Felix Behr

When we released Spring 2025 SolutionMap rankings in March, we introduced the intake and orchestration module. The SolutionMap process is extremely thorough, as it involves a robust RFI process, several hours of live product demonstrations, customer references and more. For intake and orchestration vendors, the RFI and product demonstrations covered roughly 100 unique elements.
Docusign Momentum 2025 Recap

3 weeks ago | spendmatters.com | Felix Behr

Last Wednesday, Docusign hosted its annual conference, Docusign Momentum, at Pier Sixty in New York. The event included several new product announcements as well as company updates following Docusign’s major announcement at last year’s event, the advent of a new contract management category called Intelligent Agreement Management (IAM) designed for wider organizational appeal beyond just procurement and legal departments.
Q1 2025 research roundup: A deep dive into procurement tech market movements; updated coverage of 12 vendors

1 month ago | spendmatters.com | Felix Behr

Throughout the year our analyst team provides vendor-specific profiles and tech solution analyses as part of Spend Matters Insider content. Our coverage also explores the latest thought leadership topics about procurement and supply, the technology that serves it and comparative analyses based on demos and the scoring of 500+ RFI requirements across 12 source-to-pay (S2P) categories that create our Vendor Ranking data.
What digital transformation is and means for Procurement

2 months ago | spendmatters.com | Felix Behr

Procurement professionals understand the need for a digital transformation, but they do not necessarily understand what a digital transformation involves. This leads to partial success at best and failure at worst. Procurement clearly feels the need for embracing the digital.
Expanding the influence and impact of Procurement

Feb 13, 2025 | spendmatters.com | Felix Behr

As many procurement professionals have discovered, transforming your processes to meet today’s challenges in an effective manner is not as simple as writing a new mission statement. The success of the Procurement team at Utz Brands, Inc., a snack food company, came from how they intentionally targeted key strategic initiatives under Senior Vice President and Head of Procurement Ron Schnur’s leadership. After operating as a privately-owned entity for 99 years, Utz went public in August 2020.
Making change less scary for Procurement professionals

Feb 10, 2025 | spendmatters.com | Bertrand Maltaverne |Felix Behr

Going all the way back to the philosopher Heraclitus, the only constant has been change, a fact that has only intensified in recent years with global events and technological innovations. However, even though the seminal works on corporate change management are almost two decades old, many organizations fail to navigate change due to the same reasons over and over again.