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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., Tomorrow — what is expected to come next?

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4 Predictions on Procurement’s Top Trends in 2023

Arkestro

In 2022, procurement faced challenges on multiple fronts. Eager to reduce administrative busywork, procurement teams are treating the permacrisis as an opportunity to make long-sought changes along a digital journey. Procurement has had massive challenges and targets over the past year: Managing inflation.

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Working Capital: What Is It, How To Calculate, and Why It’s Important

Planergy

One of the most important aspects of procurement is understanding and utilizing working capital in the best way possible to ensure you are making the most of your resources. It’s important to accurately understand what demand is likely to be to ensure that you can properly manage cash flow while accommodating customer needs.

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Direct vs Indirect Spend Analysis: What’s the Difference and Why It Matters

Empowering CPO

Spend analysis is the process of collecting, cleansing, classifying, and analyzing expenditure data with the purpose of reducing procurement costs, improving efficiency, and monitoring compliance. Spend analysis plays a vital role in procurement and strategic sourcing. Stay tuned! Office supplies, utilities, IT services.