As global organizations face increasing demands to do more with less, procurement and supply chain teams are under pressure to drive greater value while reducing operational complexity.
With the 25.1 Release, JAGGAER delivers a powerful suite of enhancements designed to make procurement smarter, faster, and more connected. From AI-powered insights to intuitive user experiences and deeper supplier collaboration, this release is packed with innovations that help organizations work more efficiently and make better decisions.
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Here’s a closer look at how the 25.1 Release enhances value across key solution areas:
Driving Strategic Procurement with Source-to-Contract Innovations
In Source-to-Contract, the 25.1 Release introduces a range of enhancements that directly address common roadblocks in sourcing, contracting, and category management. By automating manual tasks and embedding AI intelligence into the sourcing and contracting processes, JAGGAER enables procurement teams to move faster without compromising control.
Perhaps most transformative are the AI-powered enhancements in contract management.
Conversational AI for Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM)—an intelligent assistant that enables procurement teams to request and renew contracts seamlessly while ensuring compliance with predefined legal terms. This type of AI-driven CLM is the next wave in streamlining collaboration between procurement, legal, and finance—turning contracting into a seamless, self-service experience.
By enabling users to interact directly with contracts through conversational AI, automatically extract key contract information, and receive dynamic analysis of clauses and terms, JAGGAER is dramatically reducing the time required for contract review, negotiation and renewal. These innovations lead to faster contract cycles, better risk management, and a more strategic approach to managing supplier agreements.
With smarter sourcing workflows, organizations can now eliminate unnecessary manual steps and reduce errors, streamlining processes like sequencing multiple RFQ rounds and enforcing supplier compliance in both online and offline bid scenarios. These improvements not only reduce administrative burden but also improve data accuracy and supplier alignment, helping organizations make better awarding decisions.
Category and supplier data access is also made seamless, ensuring that procurement professionals can tap into market intelligence and supplier insights without wasting time on manual logins or disconnected systems. Coupled with intuitive scenario-building capabilities and more powerful optimization tools, these innovations enable procurement teams to evaluate complex bids with ease and make decisions that are both strategic and compliant.
Enhancing Supplier Collaboration and Risk Mitigation with Supplier Intelligence
The 25.1 Release focuses on making supplier collaboration more actionable and efficient. Organizations can now embed supplier assessments directly into workflows, automatically triggering them as part of routine processes, which reduces manual follow-ups and ensures supplier compliance and readiness.
Further enhancing collaboration, buyers can now gain clearer visibility into supplier capabilities from the very first interaction, as supplier requests now capture detailed information about offered products and services. This ensures that procurement teams engage the right suppliers from the start, optimizing the sourcing process.
Supplier development processes are also streamlined, with enhanced tools that allow buyers and suppliers to collaborate on improvement plans more effectively—allowing files and documents to be uploaded within supplier development plans. These combined enhancements strengthen supplier partnerships, mitigate risks proactively, and ensure both parties are aligned toward mutual success.
Streamlining Procurement and Payments with Procure-to-Pay
Procure-to-Pay has undergone substantial transformation in the 25.1 Release, with a focus on efficiency, transparency, and control. By harnessing AI and machine learning, JAGGAER now enables procurement teams to accelerate low-risk purchases, intelligently recommending approvals based on historical patterns. Enhanced invoice capture, powered by computer vision and deep learning, significantly reduces manual effort, streamlining the invoice process and eliminating common bottlenecks. Together, these innovations empower procurement teams to shift their focus from repetitive tasks to more strategic, high-impact initiatives.
Organizations also gain greater flexibility in how they manage approval workflows, with new capabilities to dynamically add ad-hoc approvers or customize the workflow based on specific procurement needs—ensuring the right people are involved at the right time.
Communication and collaboration with suppliers is now easier than ever. Buyers can review and approve changes to order confirmations before they are applied, enhancing control and reducing the risk of surprises. Advanced shipment notices (ASNs) now include packaging details, improving supply chain planning, warehouse management, and logistics operations.
Additionally, the 25.1 Release enhances payment automation and transparency giving suppliers greater visibility into their payment status through automated notifications and self-service access to payment details—reducing inquiries and improving supplier satisfaction.
Catalyze Efficiency: Next-Level Intake and Platform Orchestration
For organizations that rely on integrated, connected systems to manage procurement and finance processes, the 25.1 Release delivers powerful enhancements through JAGGAER’s Catalyze platform orchestration layer. With pre-built integrations to leading ERPs like Ellucian Banner and Oracle Fusion, organizations can now automate the flow of procurement, supplier, and financial data—eliminating manual steps, reducing errors, and ensuring greater consistency across systems.
Organizations can align JAGGAER’s system terminology with their own internal language through a centralized user profile API and label customization features to improve system usability and boost adoption across user groups.
New features that track detailed configuration changes and enable read-only access to integration settings give organizations better control and visibility over their integrations, supporting faster troubleshooting and providing more effective governance. Together, these enhancements make JAGGAER an even more powerful and flexible hub for procurement and financial data management.
Empowering Users with Intelligent, Personalized Platform Experiences
Finally, at a platform level, JAGGAER One continues to invest in AI and user-centric design to make procurement experiences more intuitive and insightful. The addition of AI-generated Supplier 360 summaries gives buyers instant insights into supplier performance and risks, without needing to sift through data. This helps procurement teams focus on what matters most—managing supplier relationships and mitigating risks—faster than ever before.
The expanded availability of JAGGAER Assist Premium now brings conversational AI capabilities to direct customers as well, making navigation and task completion in JAGGAER simple and natural through chat-based interactions.
Analytics capabilities have also been enhanced with customizable report ordering and user-specific time zone settings—ensuring that users always have access to the most relevant insights, when and how they need them.
Closing Thoughts: Take the Next Step
JAGGAER is on a mission to deliver a hyper-automated, conversational, and collaborative procurement platform that revolutionizes how Procurement, Finance, and Supply Chain teams collaborate. By embedding cutting-edge intelligence, we empower smarter decision-making and drive faster, more impactful business outcomes.
The JAGGAER 25.1 Release represents a major step forward in making procurement, supplier management, and payments not only more efficient but also more strategic. By embedding AI, automation, and user-centric design into every part of the Source-to-Pay process, JAGGAER helps organizations unlock new levels of value, agility, and control.
If you’re interested in learning more about how these enhancements can support your organization’s goals—or if you’d like a personalized walkthrough of any of the areas mentioned—contact us today. We’re excited to help you explore how JAGGAER 25.1 can power the next stage of your procurement transformation.
Key Enhancements Summary
Source-to-Contract Advancements:
- AI-powered contract management accelerates contract cycles by enabling conversational interaction with contracts, automated extraction of key terms, and dynamic clause analysis.
- Smarter sourcing workflows reduce manual steps, enforce compliance, and enhance data accuracy for better awarding decisions.
- Integrated market intelligence and supplier insights improve decision-making and strategic sourcing.
Supplier Collaboration and Risk Mitigation:
- Automated supplier assessments embedded in workflows ensure compliance and readiness.
- Enhanced visibility into supplier capabilities optimizes initial engagement.
- Streamlined development processes foster stronger partnerships and proactive risk management.
Procure-to-Pay Efficiency:
- AI-driven requisition approvals reduce bottlenecks by identifying low-risk purchases for quick processing.
- Flexible approval workflows enable dynamic customization to involve the right stakeholders.
- Improved order confirmation controls and shipment details enhance supply chain planning and reduce surprises.
- Advanced AI invoice capture and payment transparency improve efficiency and supplier satisfaction.
Catalyze Platform Orchestration:
- Pre-built ERP integrations with platforms like Ellucian Banner and Oracle Fusion automate data flow, reducing errors and improving consistency.
- Customizable terminology and detailed configuration tracking improve system usability and governance.
Intelligent, Personalized User Experiences:
- AI-generated Supplier 360 summaries provide instant performance and risk insights.
- Conversational AI through JAGGAER Assist Premium simplifies navigation and task completion.
- Enhanced analytics with customizable reports and time zone settings ensure relevant, timely insights.
