Afternoon Coffee: TealBook partners with Market Dojo, JAGGAER and Archlet; our analysts at Coupa Inspire; Mesh Payments collaborates with Visa

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Toronto-basedTealBook, a Spend Matters50ToKnow, which provides a supplier data foundation that autonomously enhances supplier master data and powers e-procurement technology, has announced a string of partnerships of late to expand its supplier intelligence offering.

Market Dojo

Most recently itannouncedits partnership with Bristol UK-basedMarket Dojo,an on-demand, fully self-service e-sourcing solution and a Spend Matters50ToWatch. The partnership will make third-party supplier information directly accessible in the creation of sourcing events withinMarket Dojo. The partnership will also allowTealBookcustomers to take advantage of Market Dojo’s self-service, pay-as-you-go e-sourcing solution that enables users to centralize information, negotiate the best value for goods and services, and select the right suppliers.

Nick Drewe, Market Dojo co-founder said: "While e-sourcing is proven to add value to any organization, finding potential suppliers is often a manual procedure. By accessing TealBook’s rich database of suppliers, our customers can greatly increase their competitive supplier opportunities while fulfilling specific requirements for diversity and ESG, in order to achieve greater results for their organization.”

JAGGAER

The announcement comes hot on the heels of last week’sannouncementthatJAGGAER, a Spend Matters50ToKnowand乐动体育 participant, had partnered with TealBook for automated supplier intelligence.

The integration extendsJAGGAER’s Autonomous Commerce approach by offering customers automated access to trustworthy data on global suppliers, at scale, and intelligently recommending suppliers that meet buyers needs and initiatives.

Jim Bureau, CEO of JAGGAER said: “Enterprises are scrambling to reduce their exposure to supply chain disruptions. By providing our customers with quick and easy access to alternative sources of supply, realized through our integration with TealBook, we help them mitigate those risks. Simultaneously, by factoring environmental, social, and governance (ESG) qualifications into our supplier smart-match recommendations, we’re helping customers to achieve their supplier diversity objectives.”

Archlet

The announcement also coincides with TealBook’s partnership with Zurich-basedArchlet, a Spend MattersFuture 5whose sourcing and sourcing optimization apps provide users with sourcing and negotiation features and functionalities required for a modern procurement organization. With thispartnership, Archlet customers can now make holistic sourcing decisions faster by directly using TealBook's third-party supplier intelligence and scores (e.g.,EcoVadis,RapidRatings) in the creation of sourcing scenarios.

Lukas Wawrla, Archlet co-founder said: “Making data available during the strategic sourcing process is the fuel of holistic sourcing decisions, and it’s also a crucial element of our mission to empower better sourcing decisions faster. By combining TealBook’s data foundation with Archlet’s ability to create sourcing scenarios based on third-party supplier information, we empower our customers to make their sustainability, diversity and risk strategies actionable.”

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Coupa Inspire returns to the US in April and Europe in May

Our analysts Pierre Mitchell, Xavier Olivera and Bertrand Maltaverne will be attendingCoupaInspire (Americas and EMEA) in April and May.

Coupa Inspire USwill take place in Las Vegas April 4-7 andCoupa Inspire EMEAwill take place in Berlin on May 16-18.

TitledUnited by the Power of SpendCoupa’s flagship event returns in person to unite a global community of procurement, finance, supply chain and IT leaders and practitioners for two days of networking, inspiring talks and intelligence sharing. There’s an impressive list ofspeakersand this year’s Inspire will see the launch of The Spendsetters Awards — recognizing the visionary leaders who revolutionize Business Spend Management and highlighting catalysts for change by giving them a platform to showcase their success leveraging Coupa technology.

Come say hello to our analysts, and if you’d like to arrange a chat feel free to reach out to our Global Head of Strategic Accounts, Jenny Draper at jdraper@www.walhrc.com

Mesh Payments collaborates with Visa to unveil a numberless business card

Mesh Payments, payments provider in the corporate payment and spend management space, has announced its latest offering: the Plug & Pay™ Visa Business card which ties a physical and a virtual card. The new card program offers a numberless physical Visa Business card that can be linked with Mesh virtual cards and swapped out on the fly, quickly. The Plug & Pay™ card was enabled in collaboration with Visa, which worked closely with Mesh to roll out the innovative solution to growing businesses.

Said Oded Zehavi, CEO of Mesh Payments: “We designedPlug & Pay™to address the needs of finance teams who spend valuable time worrying about abuse and fraud on corporate cards … With the Plug & Pay™ Visa card, businesses can enjoy the security a numberless physical card provides, while still benefiting from the enhanced experience of virtual cards and our spend management platform. Working with Visa to bring this solution to the market has been incredibly rewarding, and we are proud to help deliver innovative solutions alongside them.”

Amazon Business Reshape

Amazon Business Reshapefor Europe and Japan is just around the corner — March 10. It’s a free-to-attend virtual half-day event for industry experts, procurement leaders and supply chain decision makers from both the private and public sectors, from enterprise-level to small and medium-sized businesses to startup organizations.

Join us, and over 1500 procurement and supply leaders at 9am CET, 10am rest of Europe, for this free on-line event to share experiences, learnings and advice on all manner of cost-saving, efficiency-gaining and CSR-related procurement processes, and to discover how agility and resilience from digitalization feed into those successes.

Register here