CoreTrust, a group purchasing organization, expanded its strategic partnership with spend management platform Coupa. Following an initial collaboration earlier this year to enhance Coupa Advantage with CoreTrust’s supplier contracts, the new phase of the partnership brings Coupa’s AI-native total spend management platform and analytics capabilities into the CoreTrust ecosystem. CoreTrust said there will eventually be a third stage of the collaboration that will embed Coupa’s analytics capabilities into the CoreTrust experience at no additional cost to members—enabling them to classify spend data, uncover gaps and identify where contract and platform optimization can drive further savings. … Sovos, a provider of global tax compliance software, announced a strategic partnership with Epicor, a company with industry-specific enterprise software solutions. This collaboration integrates Sovos’ AI-powered tax compliance platform with Epicor Kinetic ERP, delivering real-time tax management capabilities to manufacturing and distribution companies worldwide. The Sovos-Epicor integration delivers a unified, automated approach that spans VAT, sales tax, and e-invoicing mandates across multiple jurisdictions. … Big Four firm Deloitte announced an expanded, multiyear exclusive agreement with HundredX Inc., a data and predictive insights company to provide predictive customer-focused insights to help C-suite and other executive-level leaders across industries with business strategy and financial performance. Through this expanded collaboration, Deloitte and HundredX will work to help clients make shifts in capital allocation, pricing, product strategy, customer experience, store performance, assortment and other key levers of the business to enhance future sales and performance. This collaboration combines Converge by Deloitte’s AI-enabled software solutions and IndustryAdvantage experience together with HundredX’s proprietary customer experience data sets to help clients anticipate future purchase intent. This enables organizations to identify market expansion opportunities as well as areas where growth may plateau and take strategic actions to proactively prevent that from occurring. … Tech advisor and software provider Net at Work announced the acquisition of Advanced Solutions & Consulting Co.’s Acumatica practice. As part of the acquisition, Net at Work will integrate ASC’s Acumatica clients as well as the proprietary value-added software technology developed by ASC to enhance Acumatica functionality. The proprietary technology will also be made available across Net at Work’s Acumatica client base and partner network.
