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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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In this post, we’ll break down proven strategies to help you streamline processes, improve visibility, and take back control of your procurement stack. All of these processes are critical components for managing procurement activities strategically. You can then track trends over time to guide renewal or exit decisions.

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Procurement vs Purchasing: Key Differences, Workflows, and Enterprise Risks

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Technology unifies procurement and purchasing, improving visibility, compliance, and workflow automation. Distinguishing the two helps enterprises optimize spend and strengthen supplier relationships. It’s a strategic function that covers both direct and indirect spend and emphasizes total value creation. What is Procurement?

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Procurement transformation 2025: Why invest in procuretech and how to make the case – Tipalti

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Approval lead time is another important metric. In the hybrid work environment, companies strive to route approvals to the correct approvals quickly and answer questions promptly without sacrificing audit quality. Lastly, customers measure annual dollar savings to demonstrate tangible financial returns.

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Aligning Finance and Procurement – Phase 4: Leveraging technology to bridge the Finance–Procurement gap

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Technology is a powerful enabler of finance-procurement collaboration, bridging gaps in spend visibility, cost control and data integration. Without the right tools, procurements contributions to financial strategy can remain disconnected from budgeting, forecasting and risk management.

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From Spend to Supply — Coupa’s direct spend management progress

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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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Overcoming Visibility Challenges to Kick-Start Sustainability Initiatives 

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Lack of visibility hindering sustainability progress. But to collaborate effectively, it’s important that businesses have visibility into the supply chain and their suppliers. Over a third (39%) say that the biggest challenge is poor data quality, leaving them unable to draw on reliable data from which they can evaluate sustainability.