E-invoicing compliance applications software enables compliant delivery and receipt of invoices between suppliers, buyers, and tax authorities. These solutions automate invoice creation, transmission, validation, reporting, and archiving, and are typically delivered as cloud-based platforms to ensure organizations meet evolving global e-invoicing and transactional tax reporting mandates. They seamlessly integrate with an organization’s internal systems—such as ERP, billing, accounts payable, document management, and payment gateways—while also connecting to external networks. This integration ensures compliant exchange of invoices across suppliers, buyers and tax authorities. By implementing these solutions, organizations achieve accurate invoice processing, reduce the risk of non-compliance penalties, and meet real-time or continuous tax reporting obligations. Ultimately, they enable efficient global operations and smoother cross-border transactions, benefiting roles such as CIOs, CFOs, procurement leaders, compliance officers, and accounts payable owners.
Gartner defines the source-to-pay (S2P) suite market as an integrated set of solutions to source, contract, request, procure, receive and pay for goods and services across an enterprise. These solutions typically are sold as cloud-based software as a service. Source-to-pay suites allow organizations to manage all of their sourcing and procurement activities within a single integrated solution. These solutions are modular in nature, allowing customers to activate/implement the functionality that is relevant for their needs, and are ERP/financial-system-agnostic. The integrated nature of these solutions allows for data to easily flow across the source-to-pay process, providing needed visibility to upstream and downstream information. For example, users can view a purchase order alongside its related contract, the sourcing event that led to the contract, and connected downstream documents like receipts, invoices and payments.
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.