Bridging Platforms for Smarter Procurement: TYS Presents on LinkedIn Live “The Road to the ProcureTech Cup”

Author: Michele Storr November 13, 2025 4 min read

TYS Joins LinkedIn Live show to talk SRM-ERP Integration

The Road to the Procuretech Cup LinkedIn show, episode 26-06 featuring Trust Your Supplier discussing how to make SRM tools work with existing systems

Each week, Pure Procurement’s Joël Collins-Demers hosts The Road to the Procurement Cup, a live, 30-minute LinkedIn show spotlighting industry leaders who address key issues shaping modern procurement strategy and technology.

In the most recent episode, Trust Your Supplier’s PK Sridhar, Chief Product Officer, and Gary Storr, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer, joined Joël to discuss the benefits, challenges, and future vision of integrating Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) systems with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platforms.

Building Trust Through Connected Supplier Data

To begin, Gary explained that organizations are investing in SRM tools driven by the growing need to understand their suppliers, their risks, and the opportunities they bring.

The Trust Your Supplier (TYS) platform enables organizations to create a complete supplier profile using the TYS Digital Wallet, a virtual “Golden Record” that consolidates supplier-provided documents, questionnaires, policies, and certifications.

Furthermore, by layering this profile with trusted third-party risk data and continuous monitoring, TYS ensures that organizations always have an accurate, real-time view of supplier health and compliance. Consequently, this data integrity builds faster decisions, greater transparency, and a stronger, more resilient supply chain.

Core Themes: The Power of SRM–ERP Integration

Drawing from TYS’s experience supporting global procurement teams, the discussion:

Outlined how connecting SRM and ERP platforms drives operational efficiency, transparency, and trusted data sharing across the enterprise.

Identified that to succeed organizations need to combine technical enablement with cultural and process alignment.

Shared a forward-looking vision for data-driven supplier ecosystems that enhance resilience, sustainability, and trust.

Theme 1: Efficiency Through Unified Platforms

The TYS platform provides organizations with end-to-end supplier discovery, onboarding, and risk management capabilities.

Moreover, external integrations with trusted data providers deliver continuous verification and risk intelligence. At the same time, internal integrations between TYS, ERP, and P2P systems synchronize supplier data across the enterprise. Organizations gain a unified supplier management platform that improves accuracy, compliance, and lifecycle visibility.

Theme 2: Requirements for Successful Integration

Today’s third-party risk management (TPRM) landscape often suffers from siloed systems and fragmented data. Consequently, disconnected SRM and ERP platforms create inconsistent supplier information and inefficient workflows.

Common challenges include:

Incomplete or conflicting supplier data

Outdated risk visibility due to lack of continuous monitoring

Greater exposure as AI adoption amplifies poor data quality

Costly remediation when supplier issues surface later in the lifecycle

Theme 3: The Opportunity: Augmenting ERP with SRM Intelligence

For the ProcureTech audience, TYS demonstrated how integrated SRM solutions like Trust Your Supplier can augment ERP and P2P systems by improving supplier visibility and automating onboarding.

By incorporating SRM tools early in the supplier pre-boarding stage, organizations can accelerate RFP cycles, enhance due diligence, and keep all stakeholders aligned. Likewise, customizable questionnaires and assessments adapt easily to each company’s risk tolerance and policy framework.

When a supplier’s Digital Wallet or Golden Record is verified before ERP onboarding, data quality improves dramatically. Then, with continuous monitoring and automated updates, supplier profiles stay compliant and actionable throughout the relationship.

Ultimately, this approach supports smarter sourcing decisions, fewer surprises, and less remediation later in the supplier lifecycle.

Bottom Line

The Road to the ProcureTech Cup discussion painted a powerful vision for procurement’s digital future, one where SRM–ERP integration becomes the foundation of data-driven decision-making.

With Trust Your Supplier at the center of that ecosystem, organizations gain a single, trusted source of supplier truth that unites procurement, risk, compliance, and finance teams around consistent, validated data. As a result, decisions are faster, collaboration is stronger, and risks are mitigated before they become costly disruptions.

Moreover, integrated supplier and enterprise systems unlock far more than efficiency. They enable organizations to anticipate risk, strengthen sustainability initiatives, and elevate supplier relationships from transactional to strategic.

In short, the future of procurement belongs to organizations that treat supplier data as a shared enterprise asset, not a siloed record. And with TYS, that future is already within reach.

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