At Unimarket, our mission has always been to deliver powerful, intuitive, and future-ready Source-to-Pay solutions for organisations across the public and private sectors.  

Today, we’re excited to share the next major step in that journey: Nova, the name of our next-generation Source-to-Pay platform. 

What Is Nova? 

Nova is the foundation for the future of our product suite. It’s a modern, intelligent, and unified platform designed to support the evolving needs of procurement and finance teams. 

Built on advanced technology and informed by years of customer insights across ANZ and the US, Nova represents an evolution, not a revolution. It elevates the strengths that our customers rely on today while opening the door to new, cutting-edge capabilities. 

Nova is designed to bring you: 

Elevated Capability 

Enhanced depth and performance across core modules - including Sourcing, Contract Management, Procurement and Payments - to support complex procurement scenarios, drive organisational efficiency and deliver a scalable, modular solution to support you into the future. 

Modern Technology at the Core 

Nova weaves Artificial Intelligence and modern architecture into everyday processes. From intelligent automation to deeper analytics and smarter insights, Nova helps teams move faster, reduce manual effort, and make better decisions. 

A Seamless, Connected Experience 

Built as a unified platform, Nova brings Sourcing, Contracts, Purchasing and Payments together in a single, intuitive workflow. The result: greater consistency, less friction and a more efficient end-to-end experience that can be deployed in a modular fashion. 

Why ‘Nova’? 

As our platform evolves, we want to provide clarity and confidence about what’s coming next. 

The name Nova clearly identifies our most modern, future-focused technology. When you see references such as Contract Management on Nova or Sourcing on Nova, you’ll know you’re looking at the next generation of capability built on our new platform foundation. 

This naming also allows us to introduce new features and modules over time without confusion - keeping you informed, prepared, and excited for what’s ahead. 

Who Is On Nova? 

For customers who have original Unimarket products (Sourcing, Contracts, Procure-to-Pay, Expenses, Payments) you are already on the Nova platform. This means Nova updates (paid or unpaid) will be communicated to you and will be available on your applicable modules.  

Evolution, Not Revolution 

For legacy customers (those on VendorPanel / custom platforms) who are not currently on the Nova platform, we know that your current solutions play a vital role in your daily operations. That’s why Nova is being introduced as part of a phased, long-term transition. 

Here’s what that means for you: 

• Your existing products continue to be supported. 
• You remain in full control of if and when you move to Nova. 
• The transition path will be clear, guided, and beneficial, not disruptive. 

For customers using our legacy solutions, Nova represents a compelling vision of what your Source-to-Pay processes can become. When you’re ready, we’ll ensure the move from your existing technology to the Nova platform is smooth, practical, and aligned to your organisation’s goals. 

What’s Next? 

Over the coming months, we’ll share more details about the platform, including specific product releases, enhanced features, and early customer rollout plans. 

Nova is more than a new name - it’s the beginning of a faster, smarter, more connected Source-to-Pay experience. We’re excited to partner with you on this journey and look forward to showing you what’s ahead. 

🚀 Exciting News: VendorPanel is getting a new look!

• VendorPanel Products Update: The login screens and application footers for Go to Market, Advanced Contract Management, and Advanced Evaluation will be updated to display: “Unimarket, Powered by VendorPanel”.

• No Login Changes: Your URLs, login credentials and access paths remain exactly the same. No action is required
• No User Retraining: All functionality, workflows, and navigation remain unchanged
• No UI/UX Changes: Aside from minor branding updates, the application will look and work as it does today

We're excited to share a focused but important update to our Advanced Evaluations module. This release sharpens the scoring workflow to uphold the highest standards of accuracy and fairness in your consensus process. Based on client feedback and best-practice insights, we've adjusted a core behaviour to ensure only fully completed individual evaluations contribute to the final consensus score - boosting the reliability and rigor of your decisions. 

We are thrilled to announce a significant update to Advanced Evaluations, designed to give you even greater flexibility and control over your procurement process. This upcoming release introduces a new scoring methodology, the Cost Effective Ratio, providing you with more options to tailor your evaluations to the unique needs of your organisation.

This release also include UI/UX changes to the shortlist and final decision stages to streamline decision making. 

Please note that this change will come into effect on Wednesday the 24th of September. 

🚀 New Feature: The Cost Effective Ratio

Every organisation has different priorities. This release introduces a new scoring methodology, the Cost Effective Ratio (CER), as an alternative to our existing Weighted Cost Scoring. This approach is inspired by procurement guidelines that treat price as a variable of the overall value, allowing you to choose the method that best aligns with your objectives. 

• You now have two distinct scoring methods available that can be configured at an organisation level: the new Cost Effective Ratio and the existing Weighted Cost Scoring.
• Admins can change this from Weighted Cost Scoring to Cost Effective Ratio under the General Advanced Evaluations settings. 
• When using the new CER method, the cost criterion will no longer have a weight assigned to it, as the ratio inherently accounts for its impact on the overall value.
• On the Shortlist and Final Decision screens, a new column will dynamically appear. It will display either the Cost Effective Ratio or the Weighted Cost Score depending on the method you've selected for your evaluation.
• We've updated the visual reports and mail merges to seamlessly accommodate the new Cost Effective Ratio data, ensuring all your documentation is comprehensive and accurate.

🎯 Enhanced Decision-Making Tables

We've completely overhauled the tables on the Shortlist and Final Decision screens to provide a cleaner, more intuitive user experience. While the core functionality remains the same, these visual improvements will make it even easier to analyse and compare offers at a glance.

• The refreshed table design provides a cleaner, more modern interface for reviewing and comparing respondents.
• You can now sort any column in the table, giving you the flexibility to organise data however you need whether by score, cost or respondent.
• New badges now highlight the respondents with the highest score and the lowest cost, making it simple to quickly identify top performers and budget-friendly options.

We believe these updates will significantly enhance your ability to run fair, transparent, and effective evaluations. Your feedback is what drives our progress, so please don't hesitate to let us know what you think of the new features!

We're delighted to present a new release focused on optimising your analytics experience. This update delivers key enhancements to your analytics platform, including the introduction of Global Filters and other powerful improvements. We've also made a crucial refinement to the evaluations module to further streamline your procurement process.

🚀 New: Global Filters

We're pleased to introduce a fundamental feature to our Analytics platform: Global Filters. Previously, you could only apply filters to individual reports, which made it challenging to analyse your data holistically. Now, you can filter across all reports at once, making it easier to gain a complete view of your data.

• Filter Across All Reports: The new Global Filters button at the top of your Sourcing and Contracts Analytics page allows you to apply filters across your entire reporting suite.
• A Clearer View: Once you apply your filters, every report on the page will automatically update, ensuring you can quickly and easily analyse a specific data set.
• Customise Further: While the Global Filters provide a great starting point, you still have the flexibility to apply additional filters on individual reports if you need to drill down further.

This new feature is a core component of a modern analytics tool, built to give you effortless control over your data.

🎯 Enhanced: Analytics & Evaluations

We’ve also made several other key enhancements to improve your overall experience:

• Searchable Dropdowns: All dropdown menus within the Analytics module are now fully searchable, saving you time and effort when looking for specific values.
• Match Requests & Responses Report: The filter section in this report is now expandable, providing you with more space and a better user experience for interacting with the filters.
• Refined Evaluations Logic: We've updated the logic for creating requests from Procurement Planning. If you select Advanced Evaluations during planning, the system will now automatically set this as the default evaluation method with Go To Market, saving you a manual step.
  • UPDATE: An issue was found with this update and was rolled back. It will be re-released in a future release

🛠️ Other Enhancements & Fixes

• Resolved an issue that caused discrepancies in cost avoidance values
• Resolved an issue that caused validation errors to persist after unlocking a stage in Procurement Planning
  
  

Manually validating a high volume of supplier TINs is a time-consuming and expensive process. It can lead to compliance issues and potential delays in procurement and payment to the supplier. 

Our new TIN Validation feature addresses these challenges directly. With a single click, users can verify the TIN of any supplier, ensuring the information is accurate and legitimate. This functionality integrates seamlessly into the procurement workflow, allowing for real-time checks as new suppliers are onboarded.

The Benefits

• Mitigate Risk: By automatically verifying supplier TINs, the feature helps prevent fraud and ensures compliance with US tax and government regulations. 🛡️
• Enhance Efficiency: It eliminates the need for manual, time-intensive checks, freeing up procurement staff to focus on strategic tasks. ⏱️
• Improve Data Accuracy: The automated system reduces the risk of human error, ensuring a clean and reliable supplier database. ✅

Click here to find out more, or book a demo. 

We've released a new update to help you gain more insight and accountability in your evaluation process. While this may seem like a small change, it's designed to bring greater clarity to how scores are provided and a more transparent evaluation journey.

💬 New! Mandatory Comments for Evaluators

Based on valuable feedback, we've added a setting to the advanced evaluations that allows you to require evaluators to provide a comment for each score they give. This ensures that every score is backed by a clear rationale, giving you the context needed to justify final decisions during consensus scoring.

This setting is off by default. If you want to use it for your evaluations, you will need to enable it in the advanced evaluation module settings.

🛠️ Other Enhancements & Fixes

We've also included a number of other improvements and fixes to enhance your experience across the platform.

• Mail Merge Codes: We've updated the mail merge codes for evaluation document generation to accurately show both initial and consensus scores.
• PDF Generation: We've resolved an issue where KPI labels were overlapping other text when generating a PDF document, ensuring a cleaner layout.

We hope these updates help to make your evaluation process more effective. As always, we appreciate your feedback on how we can continue to improve.

We're excited to announce a powerful new feature in our marketplace: our brand new product comparison tool! 

We know how challenging it can be to find the perfect item to purchase, and we built this tool to make the decision-making process for buyers faster and easier.

Now, you can select and compare products side-by-side in a clear, easy-to-read table. This table gives you a head-to-head view of key details like:

• Price: Quickly see which option fits your budget.
• Supplier: Identify your trusted vendors at a glance.
• Description: Get a clear overview of features and benefits.
• Code & Manufacturer Part ID: Ensure you're looking at the right product every time.

To get started with this comparison, search for any hosted catalog item in the marketplace. 

Whether you prefer Grid or List view, select the Add to Compare option:

You can also do this when viewing a specific item

This new tool is designed to give you all the information you need in one place, so you can make confident, informed decisions and find the best value for your business.

We've had some great feedback on this feature already and are actively considering these improvements:

- Comparing Index-roundtrip and RFQ items in addition to Hosted

- Saving your comparison as a permanent Shopping List.

Ready to find your perfect match? Start comparing today!

Welcome to the next wave of enhancements for our Advanced Evaluations (AE) module! Continuing our mission to uplift the platform based on your direct feedback, this release introduces a powerful new report and major upgrades to existing screens. These changes are designed to help you build consensus faster, navigate complex data with ease, and gain clearer insights.

🚀 New! Zero in on What Matters: The Significant Discrepancies Report

Running a consensus meeting can be challenging when trying to spot major scoring differences on a screen filled with data. This brand-new report is designed to eliminate the noise and guide your team through resolving only the most significant scoring variations, one by one.

• The report automatically isolates and displays only the scores for a single supplier and a single question where evaluators are in significant disagreement.
• This focused view allows your panel to discuss and resolve each discrepancy in a structured, step-by-step manner.
• It is designed as a powerful alternative to the all-encompassing Comparative Scoring screen, giving you the choice of how to best run your consensus phase.

This report streamlines your consensus process by turning a mountain of data into a manageable, actionable checklist.

🎯 Enhanced! A More Powerful & Readable Comparative Scoring Screen

The Comparative Scoring screen is a data powerhouse, and we've just given it a major upgrade to make it more intuitive and insightful. Based on your feedback, we've added new functionality and improved the layout to help you analyse and compare responses more effectively.

• Navigate with ease using new collapsible criteria sections to group related questions.
• Focus your analysis by temporarily hiding and showing specific respondents for direct, side-by-side comparisons.
• Instantly see who's leading, as respondents are now sorted by their overall rank instead of alphabetically.
• Get the complete picture with a new total weighted score displayed at the bottom of the screen.
• Maintain context during blind reviews: the price weighting is now visible even when the specific price details are configured to be hidden.
• Experience a cleaner, more intuitive layout designed for improved readability during complex reviews.

These enhancements give you more control to dissect evaluation data, allowing for richer analysis and better-informed decisions.

🎨 New Look! A Clearer, More Insightful Consensus Hub

The Consensus page is your central hub for finalising scores, and we've redesigned it to be more intuitive and transparent. Acting on feedback that the previous layout could be confusing, we've uplifted the user interface to make the workflow clearer than ever.

• The page layout has been reorganised to more clearly distinguish between actions you can take and the information you are viewing.
• Respondent rankings are now displayed directly on the page, giving you an immediate understanding of the current standings without having to open a report.
• This hub is your clear entry point to both the new Significant Discrepancies Report and the enhanced Comparative Scoring screen.

With a more logical layout and at-a-glance rankings, the redesigned consensus hub makes managing the final stages of your evaluation a breeze.

🛠️ Other Enhancements & Fixes

We've also included a number of other improvements and fixes to enhance your experience across the platform.

• Administrators now have the flexibility to include or exclude respondents at any stage of the evaluation, right up to the final decision.
• Strengthened validation rules when submitting a Purchase Order for approval to prevent errors.
• Vendors now have visibility of the 'Refresh Schedule of Rates' action on payment certificates for improved transparency.
• The remaining budget calculation on Purchase Orders now correctly accounts for all receipted amounts from other POs within the same contract.
• Resolved an issue that prevented procurement-specific custom fields from being added to tabular reports.
• Ensured that sign-off steps are now correctly included when configuring custom reminders.

We are thrilled to deliver these powerful new tools and look forward to your feedback as we continue this journey of improvement together.

Hey everyone!

New Unimarket Updates Are Here!

During July we've added a number of improvements to help you manage your spend smoothly!

Major refreshes to our Contract Creation and Bid Request Creation are currently underway, and both of these should be available soon!

Contracts

To help with with the management of contracts, we've made a number of enhancements:

1. Contract Workflow Tasks are now sortable:

This will allow users to quickly find the tasks they need to action, or prioritize those that are long overdue!

2. We have a new Initial End Date field on all Contracts, which is separate from the End Date. This will help you track renewals and extensions as your contracts move through their lifecycles and compare them to the original bounds of the contract.

3. We have a new role coming for Contracts which will allow users to view any Contracts available to their Organization Units (or child ones below). This is very similar to our Sharing functionality, see more details here.

Account Codes

We've also made some important usability changes in this space!

1. It's now much clearer which parts of an Account Code format are mandatory:

2. If you're using our Validate Account Code integration, a new warning message will direct the user to any Account Codes that need attention!

Invoicing

To help ensure timely Invoice processing, we've made the following changes

1. 1099 Reporting Codes are now included as part of our Invoice Export and standard Invoice Report. We've also made these more prominent on the View Invoice screen.

2. More Attachment types are now supported in the Invoice Inbox, even if they are under 30KB. See details here.

3. Wanting to measure cycle time, or time between an Invoice arriving in the Inbox versus it's Creation? Make sure to use our Inbox Export, now including the Invoice Date! You can learn more about this here.

What's Coming

If you take a look in Demo, you'll notice our brand new Compare Page in the Marketplace. 

This page allows buyers & browsers to easily compare different catalog products and make informed decisions on pricing. 

We're wrapping up a couple of enhancements to this page before we roll it out to production later this month!