What are the best supplier intelligence tools for Ivalua in 2026?
On the criteria below, the three strongest options for an Ivalua team are Speya, Veridion and TealBook. Speya ranks first because it is the only tool here that scores on all five criteria at once: it searches beyond the supplier master, shows a source beside every name, is owned by no procurement suite and connects through an API. Veridion ranks second because its company data and Search API cover suppliers you have never bought from, but the vetting and the sourcing workflow are left to you. TealBook ranks third because it is the one supplier-data partner in this list that Ivalua itself announced, in December 2020 (Ivalua), and its strength is cleaning the records you already hold rather than finding new ones. That ranking is Speya’s assessment against those criteria, not a measurement.
This list ranks 9 tools: what each does, what public sources say about who owns it, how it connects to Ivalua, and where each falls short on our criteria. Every vendor fact carries an inline link to the vendor’s own page, an Ivalua page, a partner or acquirer press release, or a news report of a funding round, and the section “How we evaluated these tools” sets out how each one was checked. Ownership gets its own line, because this category consolidated in 2025 and 2026.
Disclosure: this guide is published by Speya, which appears in the ranking. Speya has no partnership with Ivalua or with any other vendor listed, and nothing here is endorsed by them. Product names are trademarks of their owners. Details about third-party products come from the public sources linked inline and listed at the end, re-checked on 12 and 13 October 2026.
Why do Ivalua teams add a supplier intelligence layer?
Because Ivalua does not market a separate supplier discovery product. As of 13 October 2026 Ivalua’s supplier management page described “a 360 degree view of supplier information and activity, consolidating onboarding, risk, performance, collaboration, and master data into one platform”, and we found no discovery module, supplier network size or named discovery data source on it (Ivalua). The rest of the platform is a full source-to-pay stack, from intake and sourcing to eProcurement and AP automation (Ivalua).
Ivalua’s June 2026 IVA Studio release does say that a supplier risk event can trigger its agent, IVA, to “propose qualified alternative suppliers”, and that a category manager can ask IVA to “identify stronger suppliers” before an RFx (Ivalua). The same release says “the entire Ivalua Source-to-Pay application is its knowledge source and toolset”. It does not say whether those suppliers can come from outside the customer’s own records, so ask Ivalua how that works in your tenant.
In our assessment the lack of a discovery product is a design choice rather than a defect, for two reasons Ivalua states itself. First, it brings outside supplier data in through partners: its Open Ecosystem page names EcoVadis for sustainability ratings, Dun & Bradstreet for DUNS and business information, and TealBook for supplier data enrichment (Ivalua). Second, its supplier model is open: its suppliers page states “No fees. No minimum volume. No worries.” (Ivalua), which is Ivalua’s own statement rather than an audited figure. Ivalua announced on 23 January 2026 that it was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Source-to-Pay Suites” (Ivalua). The consequence is narrow: finding suppliers you do not already hold happens in a partner tool.
That makes the choice of layer the whole question, because the discovery vendors changed hands. Coupa announced on 6 October 2025 that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Scoutbee (Coupa). Supplier.io announced its acquisition of TealBook on 2 April 2026 (Supplier.io). The GlobeNewswire announcement dated 6 December 2021 names Coupa Ventures as one of two new strategic industry partners joining Interos’s $100M Series C (GlobeNewswire). We found no comparable Ivalua acquisition, so in our assessment the layer on top is still yours to choose.
What does Ivalua offer natively in 2026?
Ivalua’s own pages describe a supplier management suite built around one supplier record. Its supplier management page promises “a 360 degree view of supplier information and activity”, AI-backed supplier segmentation, AI-enabled scorecards, and risk monitoring “at the supplier, sub-tier, and contract level” (Ivalua). Honeywell’s Senior Director of Procurement Transformation, Steven Velte, is quoted on that page: “Ivalua is now our one single source of truth for vendor master management, so everything goes into ivalua, it is our golden record.”
On AI, Ivalua announced IVA Studio on 11 June 2026, describing IVA as “a fully agentic system able to execute any Source-to-Pay process from day one” (Ivalua). Ivalua CEO Franck Lheureux is quoted in the same release: “At Ivalua, we believe the future of procurement is not AI, it’s people using AI to deliver better and faster results.”
On analyst recognition, Ivalua announced on 23 January 2026 that Gartner named it a Leader in the 2026 “Magic Quadrant for Source-to-Pay Suites”, a report dated 21 January 2026 that evaluated 13 vendors (Ivalua). Gartner’s standard disclaimer, reproduced on that page, says it “does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications”.
For outside supplier data, Ivalua relies on partners. Its Open Ecosystem page names EcoVadis, Dun & Bradstreet and TealBook (Ivalua), and Moody’s describes an API integration of its Orbis data with the Ivalua Buyer platform (Moody’s). None of these is positioned as an AI search for suppliers you have never worked with, which is the gap the tools below fill.
How did we rank these supplier intelligence tools?
Five criteria. Every judgement below is Speya’s, measured against them.
Coverage beyond your supplier master. Can it find suppliers you have never transacted with?
AI vetting with sources. Is the evidence behind a score visible, so a shortlist is defensible?
Independence. Who owns it, does a suite sit on the cap table, do suppliers pay to appear?
How it connects to Ivalua. Named partnership, generic REST or EAI, or file upload.
Time to a usable shortlist. Days, or minutes.
How we evaluated these tools
This methodology was last applied in October 2026. Facts were re-checked on 12 and 13 October 2026; anything we could not confirm on a primary page was removed.
Which tools made the list. We started from the supplier-data partners Ivalua names on its own pages, then added the supplier discovery, data and risk vendors that the main source-to-pay suites have partnered with, invested in or bought. A tool qualified if it sells supplier data, discovery or risk intelligence that an Ivalua customer could connect.
Coverage beyond your supplier master. Checked against how each vendor describes its own product: whether it searches for companies you do not hold, or enriches and monitors companies you name.
AI vetting with sources. Checked on the vendor’s product pages for whether evidence behind a score or match is shown to the user. Where a page was silent, we say so rather than guess.
Independence. Checked against acquisition releases from the buyer, funding announcements on the investor’s, company’s or newswire’s page, and reputable trade coverage of funding rounds. Each ownership line is dated.
How it connects to Ivalua. Checked on Ivalua’s Open Ecosystem page, Ivalua press releases and the partner’s own partnership pages. If we found no documented partnership, we say so and describe the generic API, EAI or file route.
Time to a usable shortlist. Judged from what each product is built to return: a ranked list of new candidates, an enriched record, or a risk alert.
What we did not do: we did not run paid trials or hands-on benchmarks of competitor products, no vendor paid for or reviewed its entry, and placement reflects Speya’s editorial judgement against the criteria above, not a measurement. Vendors can report errors through the contact page.
1. Speya
Speya (formerly Find My Factory) is an independent AI supplier intelligence platform for enterprise procurement, based in Stockholm. A team describes the need in plain language; AI agents search millions of supplier profiles across 250+ data sources and return AI-vetted shortlists with sources beside every name. Candidates are vetted on certifications, financial health, ESG and sanctions. RFx sends RFIs, RFPs and RFQs to a shortlist and tracks replies, and Monitor keeps watching suppliers and alerts when new data matters. Speya is not owned by any procurement suite or ERP vendor, suppliers cannot pay to appear, and it is EU-hosted, GDPR compliant, ISO 27001 certified and SOC 2 Type II.
Best for: the off-network discovery and AI vetting layer, from a vendor no procurement suite owns.
Works with Ivalua via: the Speya API; there is no certified Ivalua connector.
Where it falls short: Speya is not a source-to-pay suite. It does not run contracts, purchase orders or invoices, and will not replace Ivalua sourcing, contract management or AP automation. Because there is no certified or vendor-listed Ivalua connector, writing shortlists back into Ivalua is an integration your team or Speya scopes on the API.
2. Veridion
Veridion, formerly Soleadify, describes itself as “a living digital replica of the business world” and says it serves “global intelligence, risk, and procurement teams” (Veridion). As of 13 October 2026 its API page listed Match & Enrich, Search (“Find companies by product, industry, region, and size”), Corporate Groups, Location and ESG as enterprise APIs, with a self-serve Discovery API marked coming soon (Veridion). tech.eu reported a $6M late-seed round in February 2023, with Day One Capital and GapMind Venture Partners returning and LAUNCHub Ventures, OTB Ventures and Underline Ventures joining (tech.eu). We found no procurement suite or ERP vendor among those investors.
Best for: engineering teams that want raw discovery and enrichment data to model.
Works with Ivalua via: we found no documented partnership. Connect through Ivalua’s REST or EAI layer, or by file export.
Where it falls short: on our criteria it is a data API, not a sourcing workflow. Vetting logic, evidence and RFx stay yours.
3. TealBook
TealBook is a supplier data platform. Ivalua’s December 2020 release announced a partnership “to provide a seamless experience between Ivalua’s Source-to-Pay Platform and Tealbook’s Supplier Intelligence Platform”, citing its approach “to autonomously gathering and validating supplier information” (Ivalua). Supplier.io announced its acquisition of TealBook on 2 April 2026 and launched Atlas, which it says pairs TealBook’s vendor master cleansing, legal entity resolution and corporate hierarchy capabilities with Supplier.io’s intelligence layer; the release names SAP Ariba and Oracle among compatible systems and does not mention Ivalua (Supplier.io).
Best for: cleaning, de-duplicating and enriching supplier records already inside Ivalua. We rank it there because both sources describe its job as validating and maintaining supplier data you hold, and Supplier.io’s Atlas is positioned as a vendor-master product rather than a search for new suppliers.
Works with Ivalua via: the Ivalua partnership announced in December 2020, the one named supplier-data integration we found in this list. We found no 2026 statement on how that integration continues under Supplier.io, so confirm it with both vendors.
Where it falls short: in our assessment its product direction now sits with an acquirer. Supplier.io is a supplier intelligence vendor rather than a suite, so this is consolidation rather than suite ownership.
4. EcoVadis
EcoVadis rates business sustainability and publishes supplier scorecards; Ivalua’s Open Ecosystem page calls it “a long-time partner of Ivalua” and describes its scorecards as covering 198 purchasing categories (Ivalua). In our assessment it is Ivalua’s deepest risk-side partnership: an 18 June 2025 release announced an integration bringing EcoVadis IQ Plus directly into Ivalua’s Risk Center, “expanding on the existing integration of EcoVadis Ratings into the Ivalua platform” (Business Wire).
Best for: putting audited ESG evidence into Ivalua onboarding and sourcing decisions.
Works with Ivalua via: EcoVadis IQ Plus embedded in Ivalua Risk Center.
Where it falls short: EcoVadis rates suppliers you name. On our criteria it does not find new ones, and coverage depends on whether a supplier was assessed already.
5. Prewave
Prewave is a Vienna-based supply chain risk monitoring company. JAGGAER’s partnership release of 24 October 2023 says Prewave’s AI “monitors millions of publicly available data sources”, with risk alerts across 140+ categories and more than 50 languages, including issues related to the CSDDD and UFLPA compliance (JAGGAER). EU-Startups reported on 25 June 2024 that Hedosophia led a €63M Series B, with Creandum, Ventech, Kompas, Speedinvest and Working Capital Fund among existing investors (EU-Startups). We found no procurement suite among those investors; the JAGGAER link is a partnership, not ownership.
Best for: continuous disruption and compliance monitoring over a supplier base you hold.
Works with Ivalua via: we found no documented Ivalua partnership, so expect the REST or EAI route.
Where it falls short: on our criteria this is monitoring rather than discovery. It will not build the shortlist.
6. Dun & Bradstreet
Dun & Bradstreet supplies business identity, firmographic and credit data, and Ivalua’s Open Ecosystem page names it for DUNS numbers and business information reports (Ivalua). Clearlake Capital, a generalist private equity firm rather than a suite vendor, announced completion of its acquisition of Dun & Bradstreet on 26 August 2025 (Clearlake). SAP publishes “D&B Direct for SAP Ariba Supplier Risk” (SAP). For the same identity and risk job, Moody’s partner page describes its Orbis company data connecting to the Ivalua Buyer platform (version 182+) via API (Moody’s).
Best for: identity resolution and financial screening at onboarding.
Works with Ivalua via: the named Ivalua technology-partner integration.
Where it falls short: on our criteria D&B verifies companies you can already name. It does not answer a capability question: who can machine this part to this tolerance.
7. Interos
Interos sells supplier risk intelligence. Its December 2024 post on its SAP Ariba integration describes “real-time insights on supplier risk across six key factors”: financial, cyber, ESG, geopolitical, catastrophic and regulatory, with suppliers pre-screened on multi-tier risk scores (Interos). Read the ownership line carefully: the GlobeNewswire announcement dated 6 December 2021 names Coupa Ventures, alongside Accenture Ventures, as new strategic industry partners joining its $100M Series C (GlobeNewswire).
Best for: n-tier risk visibility beyond your direct suppliers.
Works with Ivalua via: we found no documented partnership. Expect a REST or EAI integration.
Where it falls short: a competing suite’s venture arm took part in that 2021 round, which is the question this list is built around. Deep risk graph, no shortlist.
8. Scoutbee
Scoutbee is an AI supplier discovery product. We call it one of the best-known in procurement because two suites have staked on it publicly: Scoutbee announced on 21 February 2024 that Scoutbee Discovery had become an SAP Endorsed App on SAP Store, integrated with SAP Ariba Sourcing (Business Wire), and Coupa’s 6 October 2025 release describes it as “a leading AI-powered supplier discovery platform and network” and says Coupa signed a definitive agreement to acquire it. Coupa says it will integrate Scoutbee’s AI search, supplier network and dataset with the Coupa platform (Coupa).
Best for: Coupa customers, on the strength of Coupa’s stated plans.
Works with Ivalua via: we found nothing documented, before or after that announcement.
Where it falls short: in our assessment a discovery vendor inside a competing suite is the clearest argument for checking ownership before you sign.
9. Craft
Craft describes itself as an enterprise intelligence company with a supplier intelligence platform that helps organisations “understand, monitor and optimize their supplier network”. Its Series B release of 1 February 2023 reported a $32M round led by BAM Elevate, with Greycroft, Uncork Capital, High Alpha and ServiceNow Ventures participating (Business Wire). In our reading ServiceNow is not a procurement suite. Craft’s 9 June 2020 blog announced Craft Supply Chain Intelligence inside the Coupa platform (Craft).
Best for: continuous monitoring and risk scoring of a named supplier portfolio.
Works with Ivalua via: we found no Ivalua partnership. Craft’s own blog describes a Coupa integration, so with Ivalua expect an API, EAI or file-based integration.
Where it falls short: on our criteria monitoring comes first and discovery second. You still need something that answers a capability question from scratch.
How do AI tools help procurement teams find suppliers faster?
Manual supplier search is slow. A McKinsey article reports that a single supplier search takes about three months on average, with a sourcing professional logging more than 40 hours of work, and argues that AI tools paired with human expertise can scan far more of the market in days (McKinsey).
AI supplier intelligence tools speed this up in three places. Discovery tools turn a plain-language or structured need into a list of candidate companies drawn from web and registry data. Enrichment tools fill gaps in records you already hold, such as legal entity, hierarchy and certifications, which reduces errors before onboarding. Monitoring tools watch named suppliers and raise alerts, so risk checks do not wait for an annual review. Accuracy improves when each match or score carries a visible source a buyer can check.
Adoption is rising but uneven. The Hackett Group reported on 17 March 2026 that 43% of organizations are actively pursuing AI deployment in procurement, but only 12% report large-scale implementation (The Hackett Group). Amy Hillcox, senior research director at The Hackett Group, said: “Procurement is moving beyond isolated digital improvements and beginning to confront what AI really changes: how work gets done.” Gartner reported on 8 October 2026 that 63% of senior procurement leaders expect AI to significantly improve procurement performance over the next three years, while only 25% have redesigned jobs and roles as a direct result of AI (Gartner).
How to choose a supplier intelligence tool for Ivalua
The independence test. Who owns the vendor? Who sits on its cap table? Do suppliers pay to be in the database? Can the data leave with you if you change suites?
The discovery test. Ask the vendor to find five suppliers you have never bought from, in a category you know well, and to source every claim.
The integration test. Ivalua’s multi-ERP integration page describes “An Enterprise Application Interface (EAI) module that combines APIs, ETL and Query tools” and “Developer tools for building and discovering existing APIs” (Ivalua). Exact protocols and objects depend on your tenant, so scope API access with Ivalua early.
The agent test. Ask whether an outside agent can call the suite directly. Ivalua’s IVA Studio release states Model Context Protocol support for the external systems IVA connects to (Ivalua); as of 13 October 2026 we found no public documentation of an inbound Ivalua MCP server an outside tool can target.
Frequently asked questions
Does Ivalua have native supplier discovery?
As of 13 October 2026 we found no separate supplier discovery product marketed by Ivalua. Its supplier management page covers supplier information, risk, performance, issues and collaboration with a 360-degree view of suppliers (Ivalua). Its June 2026 IVA Studio release says IVA can “propose qualified alternative suppliers” after a risk event, without saying whether they can come from outside your records (Ivalua). In our reading, discovery of new suppliers in practice means a partner tool.
Do suppliers pay to be in Ivalua?
Ivalua’s suppliers page states “No fees. No minimum volume. No worries.” and says suppliers can “Log in through the portal or connect directly through EDI or XML, or just email, fax or upload through Excel” (Ivalua). That is Ivalua’s own statement, not an audited figure. Among the four suites in this research, SAP’s published supplier-fee materials are the ones that set out fees charged to suppliers (SAP).
Is Ivalua founder-chaired?
Yes. Ivalua’s 20 January 2025 announcement states that founder David Khuat-Duy passed the CEO position to Franck Lheureux, most recently CRO, took a newly created Chief AI Officer role, and “will continue to serve as Executive Chairman of Ivalua’s Board” (PR Newswire). Ardian’s May 2019 funding release stated that “Ivalua’s management retains a majority stake in the company” (Ardian). As of 13 October 2026 we found no later announcement changing either.
Can an AI agent call Ivalua directly?
Not from outside, as far as the public documentation we found shows. Ivalua’s June 2026 release for IVA Studio states Model Context Protocol support and describes IVA Studio as managing “the external systems it connects to through MCP” (Ivalua), which in our reading is IVA calling out to other systems rather than an inbound server an external tool can target. Across the suites in this research we found no documented inbound MCP server as of 13 October 2026.
Is Ivalua a good fit for a mid-market team?
ERP Research’s review, updated August 2026, lists Ivalua as “Targeted at large, complex enterprises; less suited to small businesses”, says “Pricing is quote-based and not publicly listed”, and states that reviewers “note a steep learning curve for administrators and end users” (ERP Research). That is ERP Research’s assessment of the product, not ours, and not a statement about how Ivalua customers rate the suite.
Does Ivalua have an official supplier intelligence partner?
Ivalua’s Open Ecosystem page names EcoVadis for sustainability ratings, Dun & Bradstreet for DUNS and business information, and TealBook for supplier data (Ivalua). EcoVadis IQ Plus was integrated into Ivalua’s Risk Center in June 2025 (Business Wire), and Moody’s describes an API integration of its Orbis data with the Ivalua Buyer platform (Moody’s). We found no Ivalua partnership with an AI supplier discovery vendor as of 13 October 2026.
How does Speya connect to Ivalua?
Through the Speya API; there is no certified Ivalua connector. Shortlists and supplier records from Speya can be written into Ivalua by an integration your team or Speya scopes on the API.
Disclosure
Speya publishes this guide and is one of the tools ranked in it. Speya is not affiliated with, endorsed by or in partnership with Ivalua or any other company named on this page. Ivalua and all other product names are trademarks of their respective owners and are used only to identify the products discussed.
Statements about third-party products describe publicly available information from the sources listed below, re-checked on 12 and 13 October 2026. Products, ownership, partnerships and pricing change. Speya does not guarantee that this information is complete or current and will correct any error a vendor reports through the contact page.
Rankings, “best for” notes and “where it falls short” remarks are Speya’s editorial assessment against the criteria stated above. They are not measurements and not statements by the vendors.
Speya connects to third-party systems through its open API. Enterprise teams can build a custom integration with Ivalua, or ask Speya to scope one, on request and where it makes technical and commercial sense. Speya does not offer a certified or vendor-listed connector for Ivalua and does not warrant compatibility with, or the continued availability of, any third-party system.
Sources
Ivalua named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Source-to-Pay Suites
McKinsey: With artificial intelligence, find new suppliers in days, not months
Next: Speya for Ivalua for how the two fit together, and why independence matters for the ownership map behind this ranking.