Spend Analytics
All your insights in one place
Using the new Insights overview dashboard, you can identify opportunities in various different areas. It acts as a single point of access to a selection of curated insights to help you drive action. The insights identification ranges from savings opportunities to working capital and process optimisation, depending on which modules and data content you have in Sievo. Note that some of the insights require a subscription to other Sievo modules like Supplier risk or Payment terms tracking. We will contact our clients during 2022 with more information on when the Insights overview dashboard will be available in your solution.
Analytics
Set your preferred chart in self-service
You can now set your default chart type in self-service by clicking the star icon next to the chart name. After you’ve set the default chart, you’ll always see that chart type when you start building a new chart. The selection is saved between sessions, so if you mainly use e.g. the a table, you can now set to see it immediately. Note that the default chart selection holds across the solution areas. If you select Table as the default chart in Spend, it will be your default chart also in the Savings self-service.
Small change in Quick filters to have better visibility
We have increased the width of Quick filter bar slightly to show longer names better which makes it easier to find e.g. the supplier you are looking for. This improvement will show in other filter searches as well, including in table charts.
Info icon removed from analytics charts
We got good feedback that the small ℹ icon containing data publish date in every analytics charts was confusing, as the date was the same for all charts. Thank you for the feedback, we have now removed the icon and moved the information to the bottom of each dashboard, where it’s clearly visible.
Selections not always visible bug fixed
In some cases, the current selection bar was not showing filters e.g. from bookmarks. This has now been fixed.
Savings Lifecycle
Submit and approve all your project’s items at once
In many cases, SPM users finalize and approve multiple project items at once. We’re now introducing multiple selection to the input form’s item list, that allows you to select multiple items of the same project and submit or approve them on one go. This will speed up your work when you are working with big projects that are split to several items! The feature requires configuration, please contact your Sievo representative for more information.
Approval information in the project list and approval view
How to easily find the items that are pending for your approval or check whose approval the items are pending for? We’re introducing a few new features with the intention to provide a straightforward way for approvers to find the projects they have been requested to approve, and give insights on which projects should be checked first:
New fields in the project list will be automatically available for all customers. Please contact your Sievo representative for more information on the Pending approvals dashboard.
Bug fixes in SPM
A few bugs have been fixed around SPM, including:
Materials Forecasting
Access restrictions with security scopes
When it comes to data, we in Sievo in general believe that sharing is caring. But we do realize that it is not always possible to have all data and figures available to everybody. Security scopes have been used for a long time by many Sievo modules to restrict users' access to data based on for example selected categories or regions. Now we are happy to introduce security scopes also to Materials Forecasting. When you define Forecasting security scope to a user, it will affect both what data they can see in Materials Forecasting Analytics and what forecast rows they can edit.
Environmental, Social, and Governance
Track diversity status over time
Our diversity module now supports tracking past data on your suppliers' diversity status, meaning that the analytics takes into account how the diversity status has changed over time and not only views the latest status over the entire spend. Contact your Sievo representative for more information and implementation timelines.
User Experience
Manage your Sievo administration contacts
You can now manage who receives what type of emails from Sievo. Simply add the email address of a person who should be informed about Sievo updates, data loads, outages and billing to communication preferences, to keep track of who Sievo should keep updated regarding the different areas of interest. You’ll find the communication preferences page under: Administration / Super user communication preferences. Please note that this feature is only available to Super Users.
Export currency rates to excel
Sometimes you need the currency rates outside Sievo. You can now export all the rates in to a excel file using the export button in the top right corner of the Rates tab under System administration / Currency Management.
User telemetry bug fixed
We found a bug in user telemetry causing some events to be duplicated, skewing the data. This bug has now been fixed and all the incorrect data removed.