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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. It includes (by order of priorities in Coupa's current development cycle): 1.

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4 Predictions on Procurement’s Top Trends in 2023

Arkestro

Procurement Will Still Need to Orchestrate Elements of the Fat Tail and the Long Tail of Spend. Managing—even fully orchestrating— tail spend has been a long-time procurement discussion point. The most common reference to “tail spend” is the so-called “long tail” (e.g., scenario-driven demand plans.