Compare Arkestro vs. Expent

Experience effortless sourcing with no need for logins or apps, as our one-click events seamlessly land in your suppliers' inboxes, enriched with real-time predictive insights. Our adaptable data framework caters to all categories of expenditure, allowing you to source anything you could manage in Excel with ease using Arkestro. With predictive anomaly detection, potential mistakes are identified and corrected before they impact procurement processes. The role-based access feature streamlines project management for sourcing events, ensuring all stakeholders receive timely updates. Arkestro enhances sourcing cycles by learning from supplier behavior, which helps to reduce the time required for these processes. A straightforward email-based workflow offers a range of award scenarios tailored to your sourcing events, regardless of their size or complexity. Supplier quotes often contain errors stemming from manual data entry and copy-pasting, which can complicate the sourcing process. Monitoring the progress of sourcing activities typically involves numerous pivot tables, making the task cumbersome. Additionally, new sourcing cycles often fail to incorporate insights from supplier quotes submitted in prior cycles. To aid in this, our pricing simulator provides immediate recommendations for suppliers to adjust and resubmit their proposals, making the process even more efficient. Ultimately, Arkestro transforms the sourcing landscape by minimizing errors and maximizing efficiency through intelligent data utilization.

Managing vendors and procuring various products can be quite complex, but with Expent, your teams can handle everything seamlessly. Expent simplifies both the vendor selection and onboarding processes, ensuring that the entire lifecycle of your vendors is effectively managed, from initial sourcing to contract renewals. With tools designed to support your vendor selection efforts, Expent offers the flexibility to conduct RFx or Proof of Concepts (PoC), making the evaluation of vendors straightforward. Utilizing expert-developed templates that reflect assessments from similar companies, it empowers you to make informed decisions effortlessly. Moreover, Expent allows for the centralization of vendor and purchase request initiation, enabling your teams to track unmanaged spending and facilitate purchase approvals efficiently. By integrating procurement workflows that engage the appropriate stakeholders—including security, IT, legal, finance, and procurement—Expent ensures a cohesive approach to vendor management. Often, procurement teams find it challenging to enforce spending controls and manage a multitude of requests effectively, especially when they are brought into the process too late, which hampers their strategic potential. With Expent, streamline your procurement processes and enhance strategic collaboration to drive better outcomes for your organization.