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Strengthening cash flow management and liquidity: A Finance–Procurement alignment approach — Executive Summary

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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.

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Supplier Collaboration: Fundamental to Elevating Manufacturing Performance

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Supplier Collaboration: Fundamental to Elevating Manufacturing Performance Supplier relationships are at the heart of manufacturing performance. That’s why supplier collaboration—that consistent, trusted, and responsive interaction between supplier and manufacturer—is pivotal to manufacturing success.

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Sustainability in Procurement: Strategies and Challenges

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Sustainable and socially responsible procurement practices that cover the full spectrum can provide end-to-end visibility that facilitates monitoring and compliance, and delivers continuous value to the business. Notably, 43% of our respondents also identified visibility into their sub-tier suppliers as an important strategy.

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The Benefits of Procure-to-Pay

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At Ivalua, we’ve seen how a Procure-to-Pay business process ensures sustained benefits through good buying practices, improves visibility and swifter issue resolution, and enables proactive management of suppliers. Pain-Point: Purchasing compliance and collaboration. Solution: Automate end-to-end processes.

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What are End-to-End Processes?

Pipefy

This approach to taking your business to the next level often involves end-to-end (E2E) processes to deliver solutions. What is an end-to-end process? The end-to-end philosophy emphasizes eliminating middle layers and steps to increase efficiency, performance, and cost savings.

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Adopting Supply Chain Efficiency Through Shopify CRM Integration

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Enter companies like DigitalSuits, a high-tech Shopify development and e-commerce agency that leverages technology and innovation to build end-to-end solutions. The article mentions the ways through which Shopify integration with CRM software can improve supply chain visibility, customer experience, and operational flexibility.

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Aligning Finance and Procurement for cash flow optimization and liquidity — Phase 2: Identifying misalignments

Spend Matters

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. Budgeting inaccuracies, driven by fragmented procurement-finance collaboration.