P2P suites are sets of integrated solutions with processes that may be called "transactional" or "operational" procurement. They have automated workflows to request, procure, receive and pay for goods and services across an enterprise. P2P suites are marketed as suitable solutions for processing, at a basic level, all the various types of spend — for indirect goods, direct goods and services. P2P suites optimize the purchasing process, resulting in improved financial controls, process compliance, cost savings/avoidance and reduced/mitigated risk. P2P suites deliver four primary capabilities:
•	E-purchasing functionality 
•	 Access to catalog content 
•	 E-invoicing 
•	 Accounts payable invoice automation (APIA)

Procure-to-Pay Suites

Procure to Pay Software (P2P)

Strategic sourcing application suites are a set of related, integrated solutions that support upstream procurement activities; in other words, the strategic work the procurement team does for planning, assessment and performance management. Strategic sourcing application suites are used primarily by companies with $800 million or more in annual revenue that, typically, have the necessary critical mass of spend. The strategic sourcing application suite delivers four primary capabilities. Most vendors offer these capabilities as separately licensable modules: Spend analysis is a software- and service-based solution for cleansing, enhancing, classifying and analyzing spend data. It features rule-based data cleansing, automated category-level classification, analytics and decision support. Automated spend analysis is used in procurement and sourcing to quantify spend by supplier, category and part, and to identify opportunities for cost reduction and supply base resizing.

Strategic Sourcing Application Suites

IT vendor risk management (VRM) is the process of ensuring that the use of external IT service providers and other IT vendors (third parties) does not create unacceptable potential for business disruption or have a negative impact on business performance. IT VRM solutions support enterprises that have to assess, monitor and manage their exposure to risks arising from their use of third parties that provide IT products and services or that have access to their information. Some solutions' capabilities extend to fourth parties and subcontractors — a feature increasingly important to customers.

IT Vendor Risk Management Tools

IT Vendor Risk Management (VRM) Tools Software

Contract life cycle management (CLM) denotes a solution and processes for managing the life cycles of contracts and agreements created and/or administered by, or affecting, an organization. These include third-party or internal contract agreements, such as outsourcing, procurement, sales, nondisclosure, intellectual property (IP), leasing, facilities management, employment and other licensing, plus any other agreements or contractual documents containing obligations that affect the organization now and/or in the future. CLM spans all processes associated with the life cycle of each contractual agreement, from initial request through contract discovery, authoring, redlining and negotiation, valuation, approval, execution, order tracking/matching, compliance/obligation management, amendments, dispute management, auditing, reporting, and fine-tuning to eventual archiving.

Contract Life Cycle Management

Contract Life Cycle Management (CLM) Solutions

Gartner defines Supply Chain Planning Solutions as a platform that provides technology support which allows a company to manage, link, align, collaborate and share its planning data across an extended supply chain. It supports demand creation, detailed supply-side response, strategic and tactical-level planning. A SCP solution is the planning decision repository for a defined end-to-end supply chain and is the environment in which end-to-end integrated supply chains are managed. 

Core capabilities of SCP solutions are:  Demand Planning (e.g. demand forecasting and consensus demand planning); Supply Planning (e.g. inventory planning, replenishment planning, order promising, production planning, production scheduling); and Support for aligning planning decisions across the enterprise and across multiple planning time horizons.

Optional capabilities of SCP solutions are: Advanced analytics and AI; Digital Supply Chain Twin; Integrated Business Planning; Continuous Planning; and Supply Chain Segmentation.

Supply Chain Planning Solutions

Corporate Travel Management Software empowers organizations to streamline the process of arranging travels and managing all travel-related expenses while complying with corporate travel policies. The software allows employees to book, manage and track trips without the intervention of any specialist agents. These trips can be approved and reimbursed by the administrators through an automated approval workflow. Organizations use software to create travel data reports as well as to gain insights to control and optimize their travel spend. The functionality of the software is also extended to tracking and consolidating historical travel invoices.

Corporate Travel Management Software

E-sourcing applications enable organizations to organize, solicit and evaluate requests for information (RFIs) and requests for proposals (RFPs) from suppliers. These applications enable competitive bidding where the outcome is typically a long-term agreement. Most e-sourcing applications also support reverse auction capabilities. Some applications enable large-scale complex bid events with thousands of line items and awards spanning multiple suppliers.

E-Sourcing Applications

Organizations use expense management software to simplify their expense reimbursement and reconciliation process. The software provides facilities for expense report creation, submission, approval, reimbursement, and accounting. The software replaces the manual paperwork with an automated workflow to upload, track and submit expense receipts conveniently. These reimbursement receipts are accessible to the administrators through a streamlined process to approve the claims while checking for any corporate policy violations. In addition, the software assists organizations in keeping track of their employee’s corporate expenses.

Expense Management Software

Supply chain cost-to-serve (CTS) analysis is the ability to understand profitability at a deeper level along multiple dimensions, including customer, product and route to market. The CTS analysis solution market’s most common use cases are:
•	More informed product portfolio management
•	Costing decisions and supply network design
•	Gain sharing between suppliers and customers
•	Differentiated performance targets for supply chain segments
•	Improved process and resource efficiency.

Supply Chain Cost-to-Serve Analytics Technology

The Data Analytics and Intelligence Platforms in Supply Chain market is composed of solutions which provide descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive analytics enhanced with artificial intelligence (AI) and data science (DS) capabilities to support supply chain decision making. These solutions could either be part of a broader supply chain application or a separate encompassing data platform. These solutions facilitate advanced data processing and the delivery of insightful information, predictions and suggestions that are contextually relevant and adaptive to user experiences toward more connected supply chain data.

Data Analytics and Intelligence Platforms in Supply Chain

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Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management

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Oracle In-Memory Cost Management Cloud

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Program and readiness manager

Guru is the right choice for modeling your processes. The ability to create a baseline and run multiple scenarios and compare results is the right choice.
Output tables can be exported with all data and you can create and run you own report in your platform of choice (qlik, powerbi, etc)

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Manager Analytics

Supply Chain Guru X (LLamasoft) is a supply chain optimization tool. As a software this has capabilities to answer some of the business problems related to Network Optimization, Inventory Optimization, Simulation and transportation optimization tool. Based on my expertise with working on this tool and talking to the support and management team, I could say that this tool is ideal of Strategic Decision Making but not for your day to day job. The lead time to develop a full fledged model is comparatively high. However once you set up the business AS-IS case then TO-BE scenarios would be comparatively faster. 

IT Manager

It is easy to install and configure, only the vendor's support is required to be simple, as well as allowing for very powerful statistical analysis.

Director of Supply Chain Strategy

Strong focus on customer success / adoption.  Difficulty negotiating flexibility for smaller organization and the inherent challenge of business case justification.

LATAM Global Modes Operators Manager

Llamasoft really believes in customer success, their support team is excellent and the consultants are a good mix of trainers and hands on designers.

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Analytics Lead

This was a smooth implementation with great support from Llamasoft team from charter to implementation.

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