Compare Expent vs. Forge

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.

Streamline your hardware procurement and spending with a unified platform. Work closely with manufacturers, monitor orders from initial quote to final delivery, and efficiently manage purchase approvals among other tasks. Seamlessly onboard and oversee your vendors within the system. This all-in-one platform serves as a definitive source of information, encompassing vendor capabilities, internal evaluations, and related documents. Define straightforward purchasing procedures and develop tailored workflows using our no-code tool, eliminating uncertainties about necessary approvals and pending tasks. Accessing all procurement-related information is effortless; whether it’s team members' purchase histories or vendor delivery schedules, every piece of data can be retrieved with a simple search. Integrate Forge with your ERP, accounting software, contract management systems, and more for enhanced functionality. Forge provides the necessary controls to tailor policies, assign roles, and set up approval processes according to your requirements. With its user-friendly interface, there’s no need for extensive training, enabling both employees and vendors to collaborate seamlessly from the outset. Ultimately, this platform enhances efficiency and transparency across the entire procurement process.