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How to Build a Successful Procurement Strategy in 2025

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Fragmented systems, rising cost pressures, and shifting risk profiles are making it harder than ever to manage procurement effectively. Strategies that worked just a few years ago are now too rigid, manual, or disconnected to keep up. How do you begin developing a procurement strategy?

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How to Build a Successful Procurement Strategy in 2025

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Fragmented systems, rising cost pressures, and shifting risk profiles are making it harder than ever to manage procurement effectively. Strategies that worked just a few years ago are now too rigid, manual, or disconnected to keep up. How do you begin developing a procurement strategy?

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Procurement vs. Supply Chain Management: Differences, Challenges & Solutions

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Procurement and supply chain management are often used interchangeably—but in practice, the lines between them can blur in ways that create real friction. Misaligned priorities, siloed systems, and unclear ownership can directly impact key performance indicators like cost savings percentage and procurement cycle time.

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8 Procurement Software Best Practices For 2025

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Rising software costs, lack of procurement oversight, compliance headaches, and clunky vendor management. Many organizations are discovering that without clear procurement software best practices, costs spiral, risks multiply, and efficiency stalls. Key Takeaways What is Procurement Software – and why is it important?

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Aligning Finance and Procurement to improve expense management for financial forecasting and control — Phase 1: Understanding the foundations

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For Phase 1, establishing a shared understanding of expense management priorities is essential for meaningful collaboration. Phase 1: Understanding the foundations While finance focuses on forecasting precision and budget control, procurement prioritizes usability, policy enforcement and employee compliance.

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Source-to-Pay Tools for Enterprise Procurement

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It requires you to juggle multiple priorities: unifying systems, improving visibility, reducing risk, and proving ROI across every stage of the procurement process. Learn how Ivalua’s Source-to-Pay solution can streamline procurement and deliver enterprise-wide impact. They can also help to surface opportunities for savings.

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Procurement Technology: Enterprise Solutions Driving Efficiency and ROI

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This guide breaks down the key procurement technologies in use today and the trends reshaping the future, such as AI-driven sourcing, predictive risk management, and deeper integration across the supply chain. Your procurement technology platform should help unify data and processes across tiers to avoid disruptions.