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cXML (commerce eXtensible Markup Language) is a protocol, created by Ariba in 1999, intended for communication of business documents between procurement applications, e-commerce hubs and suppliers. cXML is based on XML and provides formal XML schemas for standard business transactions, allowing programs to modify and validate documents without prior knowledge of their form.
Ariba (now SAP Ariba) was founded in 1996 [4] by Bobby Lent, Boris Putanec, Paul Touw, Rob Desantis, Ed Kinsey, Paul Hegarty, and Keith Krach [5] on the idea of using the Internet to enable companies to facilitate and improve the procurement process, which was paper-based, labor-intensive, and inefficient for large corporations.
In May 2022, Coupa added analysis features to its procurement management software to track Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reductions and how these contribute to supplier sustainability goals. [ 22 ] In December 2022, Thoma Bravo outbid Vista Equity Partners to announce its acquisition of Coupa for $6.15 billion in cash, and a total enterprise value ...
SAP SE (/ ˌ ɛ s. eɪ ˈ p iː /; German pronunciation: [ɛsʔaːˈpeː] ⓘ) is a European multinational software company based in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.The company is the world's largest vendor of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software.
The use of PIM is generally influenced by a company's: wide array of products and/or complex product data set; frequently changing product characteristics; increasing number of sales channels; non-uniform information technology infrastructure (plethora of data sources and formats) online business and electronic ordering
Suppliers ship truckloads of products to the distribution center, which stores the product until needed by the retail location and ships the proper quantity. Since a large retailer might sell tens of thousands of products from thousands of vendors, it would be impossibly inefficient to ship each product directly from each vendor to each store.
A configuration management database (CMDB) is an ITIL term for a database used by an organization to store information about hardware and software assets (commonly referred to as configuration items). It is useful to break down configuration items into logical layers. [1]
Selection of vendors or suppliers is a key function within a procurement organization. Baily et al. refer to a number of information sources typically used by buyers to help them select suppliers, including suppliers' reputation, their own supplier evaluation processes, records of suppliers used previously, and approved lists of suppliers. [6]