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Gainfront AI/ML Powered Procurement Solution brings to the marketplace an AI/ML powered procurement tool to gain full visibility on all spend types for procurement leaders. It integrates a robust diversity spend solution with supplier sustainability, performance management and contracts management.

Supply chain resilience is crucial for an organization's success, yet many companies face critical information gaps when key procurement data gets lost in emails or siloed meetings. These gaps expose businesses to risks while also hindering cost-saving opportunities. LUPR was developed to bridge these gaps by leveraging advanced AI technology to capture, sync, and analyze supplier data. This enables procurement professionals to gain a comprehensive and real-time view of their supplier network, enhancing decision-making and minimizing risk. With LUPR's AI-driven insights, organizations can not only mitigate potential disruptions but also uncover opportunities for operational efficiencies and savings. We invite you to experience LUPR firsthand and discover how AI-powered, fact-based decisions can drive greater efficiency and maximize procurement's strategic value within your organization.

SpotSource helps the world’s largest enterprises better find, engage, and manage their agencies and service providers using a private enterprise supplier management cloud. Give more people in your organization the power to make better, data-driven decisions when choosing their next supplier. SpotSource creates internal marketplaces and workflows to make it easy to find and start work with your approved marketing agencies and professional service providers. The platform is dynamic and supports a wide variety of service capability areas including areas like marketing, R&D third party manufacturing services, IT services, finance, HR services, operations, and more. Imagine having just one place to go to start and manage work with your service providers. That is SpotSource. Our AgencySpotter product was acquired in May 2024. It enables marketers to undertake a structured approach to their agency roster search by discovering and comparing #Strategic #Marketing #Digital #Design and #Research agencies. With more than 15,000 marketing agencies and design firms globally being searched by 320,000 professionals in over one hundred countries each year, Agency Spotter enables marketers to: – Discover new agencies, campaigns and expertise – Read and add agency reviews – Create and share new roster shortlists – Search competitive global marketing campaigns – Leverage the power of their LinkedIn network when shortlisting agencies. For agencies, Agency Spotter provides valuable tools to amplify exposure, gain business development insights and connect with marketers searching for new partners.

At ContraVault AI, we’re transforming how organisations manage the end-to-end tender analysis process. Our AI-powered platform streamlines every stage of the tender analysis, from intelligent tender review and risk analysis to synopsis generation, contradiction detector, and strategic bid decisions. Built specifically for the complexities of tender and RFP management, our solution leverages advanced contextual AI to extract and interpret critical information from both scanned and digital PDFs. Whether it’s uncovering hidden risks, navigating non-standard clauses, or conducting real-time Go/No-Go assessments, ContraVault AI ensures every detail is surfaced with precision. Whether you’re evaluating new tender opportunities, verifying compliance, or preparing high-quality submissions, ContraVault AI empowers your team to act faster, reduce errors, and bid smarter - all with confidence.

PERSUIT is redefining how legal teams select and manage outside counsel by mobilizing value-based pricing models from matter intake to invoice review and payment. Our AI-powered platform shifts legal operations from cost control to strategic performance. Legal teams transform into drivers of value and innovation when they engage the right firms and alternative legal service providers (ALSPs), implement value-based pricing, and optimize for outcome-driven results. PERSUIT brings transparency, scope clarity, and real-time insights at every step from intake to invoice review and payment. By shifting the focus from hourly rates to value-based pricing and business impact, PERSUIT helps legal leaders deliver measurable results, aligning legal strategy with business goals. PERSUIT allows clients to: * Drive Healthy Competition among their Panel Law Firms * Build Centralized & Scalable Processes * Scales AFAs * Unlock Data-Driven Insights * Promote Collaboration With Law Firms Check us out at PERSUIT.com and book a demo with the PERSUIT team!

Procoto makes modern procurement tools accessible to smaller companies at a fraction of the cost of today's big enterprise solutions. We uncomplicate the source-to-contract process so that businesses find better products and services faster, cheaper, and with fewer resources. This isn’t your daddy’s procurement software. We’re making sourcing fun, simple, and beautiful. And no salespeople. Just sign up on your own and you’re off and running. We're a YC company.

Quasium is a procurement platform for construction contractors that reduces sourcing and procurement time by more than 80%.

GEP® delivers AI-native procurement and supply chain solutions that help global enterprises become more agile and resilient, operate more efficiently and effectively, gain competitive advantage, boost profitability and increase shareholder value.  Fresh thinking, innovative products, unrivaled domain expertise, smart, passionate people — this is how GEP SOFTWARE™, GEP STRATEGY™ and GEP MANAGED SERVICES™ together deliver procurement and supply chain solutions of unprecedented scale, power and effectiveness. Our customers are the world’s best companies, including more than 1,000 Fortune 500 and Global 2000 industry leaders who rely on GEP to meet ambitious strategic, financial and operational goals.   A leader in multiple Gartner Magic Quadrants, GEP’s AI-native procurement and supply chain platform consistently wins awards and recognition from industry analysts, research firms and media outlets, including Gartner, Forrester, IDC, ISG, and Spend Matters.   GEP is also regularly ranked a top procurement and supply chain consulting and strategy firm, and a leading managed services provider by ALM, Everest Group, NelsonHall, IDC, ISG and HFS, among others. Headquartered in Clark, New Jersey, GEP has offices and operations centers across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. To learn more, visit www.gep.com.