Today’s post is a follow-up to yesterday’s post, Linking Nico Bac’s and Dr. Elouise Epstein’s solution map providers to real world practitioners
A SIMPLE QUESTION:
How would the following solution providers, who were not on the Nico Bac or Dr Elouise Epstein maps from greatest to least, best align with meeting the needs of each company: ConvergentIS, Focal Point, AdaptOne, and ProPurchaser?
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Provider Alignment Summary (Greatest to Least)
- Focal Point:
- Best for large, advanced, and AI-mature organizations (Unilever, L’Oréal, Nestlé, P&G, etc.) due to its enterprise-grade AI orchestration, real-time analytics, and deep integration capabilities.
- ConvergentIS:
- Excellent for any company running SAP or needing AI-powered intake, workflow automation, and agent-based orchestration. Highly flexible, integrates with legacy and modern systems, and supports conversational AI.
- AdaptOne:
- Strong fit for organizations prioritizing supplier management, diversity, ESG, and compliance—especially those with complex supplier networks or strong sustainability mandates (Henkel, Danone, Unilever, etc.).
- ProPurchaser:
- Useful for tactical cost benchmarking and spend analysis, but less strategic for companies focused on AI-driven transformation, orchestration, or supplier innovation. Best as a supplemental tool rather than a core platform.
Note:
- All three of Focal Point, ConvergentIS, and AdaptOne offer strong AI and orchestration capabilities, but Focal Point stands out for enterprise orchestration, ConvergentIS for SAP-centric and conversational AI, and AdaptOne for supplier-centric and ESG-focused organizations.
- ProPurchaser is more tactical, offering value for cost management but less alignment with strategic, AI-driven procurement transformation.
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(LEVEL 2 ASSESSMENT)
NOTE:
The above is a RAM 2025 Level 1 assessment.
With the Level 2 assessment, we will leverage RAM 2025’s self-learning algorithms to access Procurement Insights’ proprietary archives.
Here are example excerpts of the kind of market intelligence that Procurement Insights has captured over the years:
Through our proprietary archives, the RAM 2025 self-learning algorithms can analyze the progression of the Hershey digital strategy from 1997 to 2025 and provide a reasonably accurate estimate of the best course of action to take with current and anticipated future technologies (including which ProcureTech solution providers are the best with which to align). The projected accuracy rate is expected to fall between 80% and 95%, and it is expected to improve with each loopback.
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It’s Not Who’s On The Map That Counts, But Who Is Missing From The Map (And Why?)
Posted on June 9, 2025
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Today’s post is a follow-up to yesterday’s post, Linking Nico Bac’s and Dr. Elouise Epstein’s solution map providers to real world practitioners
A SIMPLE QUESTION:
How would the following solution providers, who were not on the Nico Bac or Dr Elouise Epstein maps from greatest to least, best align with meeting the needs of each company: ConvergentIS, Focal Point, AdaptOne, and ProPurchaser?
MODEL 1
MODEL 2
MODEL 3
Provider Alignment Summary (Greatest to Least)
Note:
MODEL 4
(LEVEL 2 ASSESSMENT)
NOTE:
The above is a RAM 2025 Level 1 assessment.
With the Level 2 assessment, we will leverage RAM 2025’s self-learning algorithms to access Procurement Insights’ proprietary archives.
Here are example excerpts of the kind of market intelligence that Procurement Insights has captured over the years:
Through our proprietary archives, the RAM 2025 self-learning algorithms can analyze the progression of the Hershey digital strategy from 1997 to 2025 and provide a reasonably accurate estimate of the best course of action to take with current and anticipated future technologies (including which ProcureTech solution providers are the best with which to align). The projected accuracy rate is expected to fall between 80% and 95%, and it is expected to improve with each loopback.
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