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Unleashing the Power of Procurement Buyers: Delving into this Impactful Role

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Resources / Blog / Unleashing the Power of Procurement Buyers: Delving into this Impactful Role Unleashing the Power of Procurement Buyers: Delving into this Impactful Role Buyers have always played an important role in the procurement industry, helping organizations obtain goods and maintain a careful balance of speed, cost-efficiency, and quality.

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From Spend to Supply — Coupa’s direct spend management progress

Spend Matters

Categories: Conferences , Spend Management Tags: PRO The question of how to manage direct materials can yield polarized answers and requires deeper evaluation than simply evaluating a few narrow use cases. The specific processes and needs involved may include upstream (i.e.,

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Billhop: Vendor Analysis — Working capital financing and tail spend management solution overview, roadmap, competitors, tech selection tips, analyst summary

Spend Matters

Billhop addresses common payments pain points for large enterprise organizations, such as working capital and tail spend. ERP systems normally have issues that cause problems for buyers, such as low value transactions and high costs to onboard suppliers. This content is for members only. Visit the site and log in/register to read.

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Episode 79: User-Centric MRO Spend Management with Mike Franz

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Episode 79: User-Centric MRO Spend Management with Mike Franz. As a manufacturing “triple threat,” Mike is now using his broad experience to transform the way small to medium sized manufacturers address their MRO spend by acknowledging changes in consumer expectations. By Kelly Barner | August 24, 2022. Highlights.

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319: Improve the Way Buyers and Suppliers Work Together, with Nipendo

Let's Talk Supply Chain

Today I’m joined by Nipendo , a forward-thinking software brand that is on a mission to improve how buyers and suppliers work together to combat Source-to-Pay inefficiencies and costs. It was that approach – much more additive than disruptive – that really intrigued me as the new age of spend management.”

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Trax: Vendor Analysis — Transportation Spend Management solution overview, competitors, tech selection tips, analyst summary

Spend Matters

Categories: Analysis , Procurement Systems & Architecture , Spend Management , Supply Chain , Supply Chain Management , Trade Financing Tags: PRO This Spend Matters PRO Vendor Analysis gives an overview of Trax, a Transportation Spend Management (TSM) solution.

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How effective Tail Spend Management can drive cost savings

Procurement Software

Instead of looking at direct materials and purchased parts, the hidden opportunity is often found in effective tail spend management. The best opportunities now lie in tail spend management. This is usually areas of indirect spend which have previously been relatively unexplored. What is tail spend?