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Technology Trends in Procurement

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Fully-automated spend categorization will boost visibility, free up time, supercharge advanced analytics, and improve decision-making. This number is expected to swell to over 25 billion connected devices by 2030. Wondering how a group purchasing organization works to save you money, time, and effort? Contract monitoring.

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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

IBP requires cross functional alignment to eliminate silos, to achieve accountability for delivering strategic, financial and operational outcomes, and to enable scenario planning that provides forward visibility into the consequences and risks of decisions (Sorensen, 2020). Automation versus Augmentation. Bureau of Labor Statistics.