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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. Quality collaboration to manage the direct-materials quality control processes from design to execution.

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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. scenario-driven demand plans. That’s why we’re seeing more procurement teams turn towards iterative predictive models like.

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

Planergy

Options worth exploring include: asking for upfront payments on orders, reducing credit terms, billing customers immediately upon sale, or getting a better grip on sales forecasting/demand planning. Regular analysis also helps you find other cost savings opportunities without sacrificing product or service quality.

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