# Procurement Glossary **Source:** https://fr.vendrnova.com/resources/procurement-glossary **Language:** French --- Resources · Procurement glossary # The language behind une meilleure chaîne d'approvisionnement. A practical reference for the terms, acronyms, controls, and workflows that shape modern Source-to-Pay work. A working reference ## Find the term. Keep the meaning. Procurement language travels across buyers, finance teams, suppliers, technology, and leadership. Clear definitions give every conversation a stronger starting point. Designed for the handoff Use the glossary when a term needs a plain-language explanation — then connect it back to the workflow, owner, and decision it supports. Browse the language of the work ## Find a term, then put it in context. Search glossary 36 terms En vue A ### Accounts payable (AP) Finance The function responsible for recording, validating, and paying amounts owed to suppliers for goods or services already received. ### Approval workflow Contrôle A defined sequence that routes a request, order, invoice, or other record to the people responsible for review and approval. ### Approved supplier list Fournisseurs A maintained list of suppliers that have met the organization’s requirements for qualification, risk, compliance, or commercial readiness. ### Audit trail Contrôle A chronological record of actions, changes, approvals, and evidence that helps an organization understand how a decision or transaction progressed. C ### Category management Strategy A structured approach to managing a group of related goods or services as a category, using demand, market, supplier, and spend information to shape strategy. ### Contract compliance Contrats The degree to which purchases, supplier behavior, and internal actions follow the terms, pricing, obligations, and policies agreed in a contract. ### Contract lifecycle management (CLM) Contrats The practices and systems used to create, review, approve, store, monitor, renew, and retire contracts through their full lifecycle. ### Évitement des coûts Value An action that prevents a future or potential cost from occurring, such as avoiding an unnecessary purchase or preventing an unfavorable renewal. D ### Direct procurement Approvisionnement The purchase of materials, components, or services that directly contribute to a company’s product or core service delivery. E ### Facturation électronique Finance The electronic exchange of invoice data in a structured format between a supplier and a buyer or their connected systems. ### E-procurement Approvisionnement The use of digital tools to manage purchasing activities such as requests, approvals, supplier selection, orders, receipts, and invoices. ### ERP Technologie Enterprise resource planning software that integrates core business records and processes, often including finance, operations, inventory, and purchasing. G ### Goods receipt note (GRN) Approvisionnement A record confirming that goods were received, usually with information about quantities, condition, or the date of receipt. I ### Achats indirects Approvisionnement The purchase of goods and services that support operations but do not become part of the finished product, such as software, facilities, or professional services. ### Rapprochement de factures Finance The process of comparing invoice information with related purchasing and receipt records to confirm that a payment is accurate and authorized. M ### Maverick spend Contrôle Business spending that occurs outside an organization’s approved suppliers, contracts, policies, or procurement process. P ### Procure-to-pay (P2P) Approvisionnement The process from an approved purchase request through purchase order, receipt, invoice review, and payment. ### Approvisionnement Approvisionnement The end-to-end activity of identifying a need, finding and selecting suppliers, agreeing terms, buying goods or services, and managing the resulting relationship and records. ### Orchestration des achats Strategy The coordination of people, processes, systems, policies, and data so work can move across the procurement lifecycle without losing context. ### Purchase order (PO) Approvisionnement A formal document or system record a buyer sends to a supplier to specify what is being ordered, at what price, and under which terms. ### Purchase requisition Approvisionnement An internal request for goods or services that begins the purchasing process before an authorized purchase order is issued. R ### Request for proposal (RFP) Approvisionnement A structured request asking suppliers to propose a solution, approach, price, and commercial terms against defined requirements. S ### Scope of work (SOW) Contrats A document that describes the work, deliverables, responsibilities, timing, acceptance criteria, and other expectations for a project or service. ### Source-to-contract (S2C) Approvisionnement The set of activities that moves from category or demand analysis through sourcing, supplier selection, negotiation, and contract creation. ### Source-to-pay (S2P) Strategy The connected procurement lifecycle from identifying a sourcing need through supplier selection, contracting, purchasing, invoicing, and payment. ### Analyse des dépenses Strategy The examination of purchasing data by supplier, category, entity, location, or other dimensions to understand patterns, risks, and opportunities. ### Spend under management Value The portion of an organization’s spending that is actively governed through procurement policies, processes, contracts, or category strategies. ### Sourcing stratégique Approvisionnement A fact-based approach to selecting suppliers and structuring commercial relationships by considering requirements, market conditions, risk, value, and total cost. ### Intégration des fournisseurs Fournisseurs The process of collecting, reviewing, approving, and maintaining the information and documents needed to begin working with a supplier. ### Gestion de la performance des fournisseurs Fournisseurs The ongoing measurement and review of supplier delivery, quality, service, compliance, risk, and other agreed performance expectations. ### Supplier risk Fournisseurs The possibility that a supplier’s financial, operational, regulatory, cybersecurity, geographic, or performance issues could affect the buyer. T ### Tail spend Value The collection of smaller, infrequent, or fragmented purchases that sit outside the organization’s most strategically managed spend. ### Rapprochement à trois voies Finance A control that compares a purchase order, a receipt or service confirmation, and an invoice before payment is approved. ### Total cost of ownership (TCO) Value The complete cost of acquiring and using a product or service, including relevant purchase, implementation, operating, maintenance, and disposal costs. V ### Vendor management system (VMS) Fournisseurs A system used to organize supplier information, engagements, contracts, performance, compliance, and related workflows. W ### Workflow automation Technologie The use of configured rules and system actions to route work, apply checks, notify owners, and record progress with less manual coordination. Make the terminology useful ## Clarity is a procurement capability. 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