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Level up your procurement with AI: From quick wins to game-changing strategy

Spend Matters

From simple automations that save time to sophisticated strategies that drive major business value, embedding AI in your business processes can provide immense value. These require a bit more effort, such as better data integration and more refined algorithms, but they unlock deeper insights and smarter decision making.

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Inflation + Source-to-Pay Strategies: The Cure for the Common Price Hike

ivalua

How Inflation Impacts Procurement Inflation affects a number of aspects of a business, including its ability to compete in the market, financial performance, and overall strategy. Ivalua’s Contract Management module allows you to easily track milestones and consumption in real time across multiple agreements.

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How to implement a future-ready e-procurement function

Spend Matters

Approval workflow bottlenecks: Manual approvals cause delays, increasing cycle times and reducing procurement efficiency. Lack of visibility into budgets and contracts: Without real-time tracking, procurement teams risk exceeding budget allocations and violating contract terms.

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How the importance of risk management has changed for procurement – and what to do about it

Spend Matters

As little as 10 years ago, we heard stories of pretty much indifference to risk: “supply risk management was young,” we heard, and “we didn’t worry too much about risk; we spent a very small percentage of our time on it.” In financial services for example,” says Stephen, “the biggest risk concerns are around cyber attacks and data breaches.

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Return to Success: Streamlining Returns in the Supply Chain for Enhanced Efficiency

Speaker: Cathy Morrow Roberson, Research Manager for the Reverse Logistics Association

Businesses need to leverage advanced tracking systems and data analytics to identify bottlenecks and improve supply chain visibility. Efficient return management stands as a crucial strategy for optimizing the supply chain.

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

Spend Matters

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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Procurement Trends 2025: Automation, Analytics & Strategy

Planergy

How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. These portals improve real-time visibility into purchase orders, payment timelines, and dispute resolution, directly enhancing vendor satisfaction. [5]

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The New Tech Toolbelt: Digital Twins, IoT, Cobots, & More

Speaker: Cory Skinner, Founder and CEO of FactR

From limited visibility and a lack of real-time data to a lack of agility and responsiveness to changing market conditions, there's no shortage of difficulties that today's supply chain professionals can encounter. What can be done to not only address these challenges, but overcome them? Register now!