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“Flexible platform to meet our changing business needs.”
“In-Depth Analysis: The Practical Issues of Ivalua Platform”
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Ivalua is a provider of cloud-based Source-to-Pay solutions. Our complete, unified platform empowers businesses to effectively manage all categories of spend and all suppliers, increasing profitability, improving ESG performance, lowering risk, and improving employee productivity. We are trusted by over 400 organizations across the world, many of whom are admired brands.
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The configurability of the system was the biggest draw to Ivalua. This has allowed the company to manage and create our own enhancements and implement them, with the aid of Ivalua's maintenance team, without the need of creating Statements of Work for each minor change required for changing business needs.
Single sign on functionality on the production environment makes it easy and efficient to work.
We like very much the flexibility and customization level of the application. In recent time the ticket counter usage has been very efficient.
Since the platform is designed to be seamless, a change made in one module may impact another. It is extremely important to understand what fields, or parts of modules, are sharing information when implementing enhancements so there is not a negative impact to another module.
The platform is unfortunately not properly developed, with numerous of issues throughout the platform. For public procurement (our case) we are almost 3 years after going live, still have the following issues: -due to Ivalua recommendation to have two supplier databases in the platform, we are now struggling with the harmonization of those (cost intensive rebuilding going on) -language issues on the platform (English is still the default platform language for Norwegian users, but this was solved after with trouble shooting for 1,5 year). -wrong language on communication to suppliers -date and time issues due to the fact that Ivalua use UTC as common time base throughout the platform - critical when working on public deadlines -questionnaires is key to effective process - but the ivalua-platform is deleting all the formatting forcing you to use hours of basic formatting work -questionnaires are not supporting reply alternatives with two languages at the same time -lack of correction-function in an RFx-process: If only 1 out of 10 suppliers is unfortunate and gives a wrong reply on a questionnaire (copy/paste a reply on wrong requirement, or selecting a wrong reply alternative due to unclear requirement) an entire new step of the process must be initiated forcing the remaining 9 (without issues) to do a complete rework of their reply. -validation of tasks/documents is not working properly -suppliers get systematically rejected when trying to register themselves -heavy lack of tracking of what happened (log). -analysis of spend is probably the most critical issue: Due to the double set of supplier database we are really struggling. Every month. For almost 3 years.
Sometimes the system is a instable and it happened that fixed problems reappear and have to be fixed again. In addition, in certain moment, the performance could be better and waiting times are much longer than before. The process workflow could be streamlined for some user activities.
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In-Depth Analysis: The Practical Issues of Ivalua Platform
Ivalua struggles to get the most basic functionality working properly. - MANAGER, PROCUREMENT1B-10B USDManufacturingReview Source
Flexible platform to meet our changing business needs.
Ivalua provides a flexible solution, allowing clients to manage their business processes globally in an efficient way, that drives collaboration amongst users. The maintenance team is very helpful in aiding clients with enhancements as business needs change. The solution has helped in regards to record retention, compliance, and supplier management. - ICT Project Manager1B-10B USDManufacturingReview Source
Good experience with areas to be improved
Ivalua sourcing module helps our organization to manage the sourcing process in a structured way and it gives valuable contribution to the upstream process digitalization. The system is flexible and customizable, but sometimes slow and with a little flaws. - Product Owner10B+ USDTelecommunicationReview Source
Great sourcing suite with potential for improvement in the technical services.
Overall Ivalua provides a flexible tool with a lot of standard integrations. The customization capabilites are very high compared to similar products. - Software License Management Specialist10B+ USDBankingReview Source
Good tool for commercial data management
This tool is being used as a source of all commercial data related with software items we work with on daily basis. It allows us to to verify all commercial aspects related to the product we analyze, like the relevant contract, applicable purchase order or the requisition.