Spend Matters

MAY 13, 2025

Without an integrated process, organizations experience: Long invoice processing times, leading to unpredictable cash outflows. Inadequate cash flow visibility Finance teams often lack real-time insight into procurement expenditures, supplier contracts and upcoming financial obligations, making it difficult to forecast cash flow accurately.

Real-time Visibility 80

Real-time Visibility e2e Procurement Suppliers 80

Procurement Express

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Purchase control is one of those things that feels small until its not. Purchasing is about getting the right stuff at the right time from the right suppliers for a fair price without blowing up your budget or your supplier relationships. How much time is your team wasting on the purchase order process?

Purchasing 40

Purchasing Purchase orders supply chain budgeting Budget 40

Spend Matters

JUNE 2, 2025

While traditional KPIs often emphasize cost savings or budget control, aligned organizations take a more strategic approach, tracking performance indicators that reflect the joint impact of finance and procurement on business outcomes. Tracking performance over time is key to measuring the business value the collaboration is delivers.

Sustainability 67

Sustainability supply chain budgeting Supply Chain Efficiency Real-time Visibility 67

Procurement Express

MARCH 14, 2025

But keeping track of purchase orders, invoices, and spending can quickly become a headache, especially as your business grows. Instead, it integrates with third-party solutions that enhance your purchasing processes. In this post, we dive into the top purchasing software options. But heres the catch.

Real-time Visibility 52

Real-time Visibility Purchase orders Procurement Budget 52

Spend Matters

APRIL 29, 2025

The series follows the methodology described in our Aligning Finance and Procurement in-depth guide , which offers a practical, structured approach to enhancing cash flow visibility, optimizing payment timing, reducing working capital risk and improving liquidity outcomes through closer collaboration between finance and procurement.

Real-time Visibility 91

Real-time Visibility e2e Procurement Management 91

Spend Matters

MAY 6, 2025

Streamlining purchasing processes to enhance efficiency and reduce administrative delays. Why alignment matters Strategic alignment between finance and procurement unlocks better financial visibility, stronger risk control and operational efficiency. Ensuring supplier financial health to prevent disruptions in critical supply chains.

Supply Chain Optimization 78

Supply Chain Optimization Real-time Visibility Supply Chain Efficiency Procurement 78

Planergy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. Using financial tools can help save time and resources while improving accuracy in the budgeting process. Whether you have a small business or a large corporation, the basic steps and best practices for managing budgets are the same.

supply chain budgeting 92

supply chain budgeting Budget Real-time Visibility Spend management 92

TYA Suite

APRIL 13, 2025

Every business, big or small, relies on purchasing goods and services to keep operations running smoothly. But without a clear system to manage these purchases, things can quickly spiral into A mess delays, overspending, or even errors. What sets a modernPurchase Order Approval Workflowapart is its ability to providereal-time insights.

Purchase orders 40

Purchase orders Purchasing Real-time Visibility Budget 40

TYA Suite

APRIL 13, 2025

When your business is small, using spreadsheets or sticky notes to track purchases might seem easy. These issues can waste time, increase expenses, and cause frustration for your team. Without a proper system, it becomes harder to track budgets, follow company rules, and manage suppliers. Thats why switching to an can help.

Purchasing 40

Purchasing supply chain budgeting Supply Chain Efficiency Real-time Visibility 40

ivalua

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

It also has an impact on procurement teams as they are responsible for managing supplier relationships, identifying opportunities for cost savings, and ensuring that goods and services are delivered on time and within budget. This helps ensure your contracts remain favorable and that all stakeholders comply with the negotiated terms.

Price 264

Price Strategy Sourcing Real-time Visibility 264

Procurement Express

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

But to do that effectively, you need the right tech stack to streamline processes, automate tedious tasks, and provide real-time financial insights. Some focus on cloud accounting and bookkeeping, while others specialize in forecasting, budgeting, purchasing, and compliance. What are virtual CFO tools?

Real-time Visibility 52

Real-time Visibility supply chain budgeting Budget supply chain software solutions 52

Spend Matters

MAY 20, 2025

It requires a structured approach to ensure financial visibility, risk management and cash flow efficiency. Limited financial visibility: Procurement-driven cost savings are often not integrated into financial planning. Cash flow visibility and forecasting: Are finance and procurement working with the same data? For example: 1.

Collaboration 67

Collaboration Real-time Visibility Procurement Suppliers 67

Procurement Tactics

DECEMBER 6, 2022

However, these manual processes are ineffective and cost a lot of effort, time, and money. It is a set of practices that ensures smart procurement decisions and efficient purchasing. Just like budgeting at home, a household allocates a budget in which spending and savings are addressed for the full month. Human error.

Spend management 172

Spend management Management Real-time Visibility Budget 172

ivalua

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

According to the panelists, there are some key features and functionality that make best-in-class supply chain solutions a better choice for healthcare organizations: Guided procure-to-pay compliance: The concept of compliant purchasing in healthcare encompases the front-end user experience. Efficient warehouse management.

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supply chain budgeting Supply Chain Optimization supply chain software solutions Supply Chain Efficiency 221

Planergy

MAY 8, 2025

Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. These portals improve real-time visibility into purchase orders, payment timelines, and dispute resolution, directly enhancing vendor satisfaction. [5]

Strategy 52

Strategy Real-time Visibility Procurement Agile and Lean Supply Chain 52

Procurement Software

MARCH 16, 2025

While full-scale digital transformation certainly takes time, organisations can see rapid improvements in efficiency, collaboration, and data accuracy right from the outset. Dealing with all of these contracts, sourcing events and purchase requests simultaneously, without a digital solution, results in email overload.

Procurement 52

Procurement Real-time Visibility Supply Chain Efficiency Purchase orders 52

Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Spend Matters has been speaking with procurement practitioners and solution providers to get a wide view of how procurement and digital transformation is happening in the real world. And in the real workplace, thats where those decisions come from rather than procurement itself. Her first piece of advice would be: Dont. Not yet anyway!

Procurement 74

Procurement Real-time Visibility Change management Data 74

Planergy

MARCH 11, 2025

Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. The seamless connection allows for automated invoice scanning, approval workflows, and real-time spend visibility. What's PLANERGY? Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. The open P.O. The open P.O.

Real-time Visibility 52

Real-time Visibility Purchase orders Purchasing Export 52

Pipefy

APRIL 22, 2025

If youre in procurement or supply chain, chances are youve wondered: How can I rethink this process, make smarter decisions, and still save time? In this article, well break down how combining automation with full integration is reshaping procurement and delivering real improvements in efficiency, savings, and strategic control.

Sourcing 59

Sourcing Real-time Visibility Procurement e2e 59

Jaggaer

MAY 21, 2025

In todays public sector environment, procurement leaders must strike a careful balance ensuring compliance with an ever-evolving web of federal, state, and local regulations, improving operational efficiency, and maintaining transparency, all while working within constrained budgets and managing legacy systems. Watch now

Contract 52

Contract Sourcing Real-time Visibility Procurement 52

Procurement Express

DECEMBER 31, 2024

And finally, there’s purchase order-specific software. Benefits of Procurement Software The Modern Finance Tech Stack How to choose the right purchasing software What is Procurement Software? Procurement software is a tool designed to streamline and automate procurement operations, from purchase requests to supplier payments.

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supply chain software solutions Purchase orders Procurement Real-time Visibility 40

Procurement Tactics

JULY 20, 2023

This includes tasks such as creating purchase orders, managing inventory levels, tracking shipments, and reconciling invoices. Supplier order management software, also known as “ purchase order management software” is a digital solution designed to simplify and optimize the supplier order management process.

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supply chain software solutions Suppliers Management Purchase orders 134

Una

JULY 6, 2022

Benefits of a Group Purchasing Organization. A guide to exploring the benefits of working with a group purchasing organization to save money, time and effort. A group purchasing organization leverages the collective purchasing power of thousands of businesses to secure lower prices for their members. Cost Savings.

Purchasing 92

Purchasing Category management Real-time Visibility Supply Chain Efficiency 92

Procurement Insights

MAY 21, 2025

QUESTION 1: How does Hansen’s Metaprise Model address the following CPO concerns: Budget Constraints, Process and System Alignment, Technology Gaps, Challenging Market Dynamics, Difficulty Engaging Stakeholders? Continuous Learning: AI agents refine workflows using real-time market data, closing gaps in analytics and automation.

supply chain budgeting 52

supply chain budgeting Real-time Visibility Stakeholder engagement Agile and Lean Supply Chain 52

Planergy

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. Procurement in education is far more than simple purchasing. These purchases directly impact student learning and institutional performance. Strategic Procurement Strategic procurement goes beyond transactional purchasing.

Procurement 52

Procurement Supply Chain Efficiency supply chain budgeting Budget 52

Procurement Express

JULY 5, 2024

The Importance of Strategic Budgeting Budgeting is so much more than just crunching numbers – it’s a strategic exercise that can reveal your company’s mission and provide a roadmap to success. This includes anyone who touches the budget, whether on the revenue or expense side.

Budget 52

Budget Real-time Visibility Product development Collaboration 52

Fraxion

JANUARY 30, 2023

As facilitators of proactive spend management, we understand that giving authorized approvers the ability to access real-time budgets empowers informed decision-making and drives accountability. What are the benefits?

Budget 52

Budget Real-time Visibility Spend management Purchasing 52

Procurement Express

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The right financial reporting software gives you real-time visibility into where money is going, automates tedious finance tasks, and helps you make smarter decisions faster. It automates reporting processes, reduces manual errors, and provides real-time insights into a companys financial health. Custom dashboards.

Real-time Visibility 40

Real-time Visibility Spend management Budget Purchasing 40

Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Time and resources can also be a stopping point. Add to that lack of water-tight contracts, badly negotiated terms, money leakage, non-compliance Yet at the end of the day, its the business that has the most to gain: getting rid of inefficient manual data processes and paper-based comms trails, gaining visibility and reducing risk.

Real-time Visibility 115

Real-time Visibility e2e Procurement Negotiation 115

TYA Suite

MAY 23, 2025

The answer often lies in disconnected systems, manual workflows, and a lack of visibility between procurement and finance teams. Procure to pay automation is a smart way to speed up your P2P operations by cutting out manual data entry and reducing the time spent on repetitive, routine tasks.

Real-time Visibility 40

Real-time Visibility Procurement Supply Chain Efficiency e2e 40

ivalua

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

To summarize, tail spend is commonly labeled as the money a company spends on purchases that accounts for roughly 80% of total transactions, making up about 20% of the company’s spend by volume. Lack of control or visibility into what is being spent and with which suppliers. Which supplier it was purchased from; and .

Buyers 130

Buyers Real-time Visibility Purchasing Spend management 130

TYA Suite

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Spend management software offers companies the tools to streamline financial operations, monitor expenses, and maintain control over their budgets. These tools automate the tracking of purchases, invoices, and payments, making it easier for companies to stay within budget while improving operational efficiency.

Spend management 40

Spend management Management Real-time Visibility Budget 40

Jaggaer

MARCH 24, 2025

Together, they enable procurement teams to move from reactive to proactive, optimizing sourcing strategies, improving supplier negotiations, and ensuring more accurate, real-time decision-making. Impact on Procurement: Spend analytics give CPOs visibility into spending patterns, supplier performance, and inefficiencies.

Procurement 52

Procurement Supply Chain Optimization Real-time Visibility supply chain budgeting 52

TYA Suite

JANUARY 27, 2025

The real estate industry, characterized by intricate processes and substantial investments, constantly seeks ways to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and ensure timely project completion. From sourcing construction materials to hiring contractors, a well-organized is essential for timely project completion and cost control.

Real-time Visibility 40

Real-time Visibility Management Procurement supply chain budgeting 40

TYA Suite

APRIL 13, 2025

It helps organizations plan, track, and manage everything involved in purchasing goods or servicesfrom ordering office chairs to sourcing raw materials. Think of it as a centralized hub that simplifies tasks like supplier negotiations, purchase approvals, budgeting, and delivery tracking. See real-time updates (e.g.,

Management 40

Management Procurement Real-time Visibility Budget 40

Procurement Tactics

OCTOBER 16, 2022

The system gives the user accuracy, visibility, and control over whether the project can be profitable or not. Visibility of the workflow. Before the creation of ERP systems, the coordination of the involved parties in the project is time-consuming and takes a lot of effort. . CAD interface. Work cycle process. Scheduling.

Real-time Visibility 130

Real-time Visibility Budget Inventory control Data 130

TYA Suite

OCTOBER 27, 2024

A well-integrated procurement management system facilitates the seamless execution of procurement activities, from requisition and purchase order creation to and payment. By streamlining the process of creating, approving, and monitoring purchase orders, this feature minimizes errors and human labor.

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supply chain software solutions Supply Chain Efficiency Management Procurement 40