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Aligning Finance and Procurement for cash flow optimization and liquidity — Phase 1: Understanding the foundations

Spend Matters

Reducing the total cost of procurement through supplier negotiations and sourcing strategies. Ensuring supplier financial health to prevent disruptions in critical supply chains. Enhance liquidity management by optimizing payment terms and supplier agreements.

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Navigating trade turbulence: What tariffs are really exposing in Procurement

Spend Matters

For many Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs), the real message was clear: Volatility is back, and this time, it demands faster, more coordinated and more data-driven responses. Supply chain visibility: The linchpin for tariff management If there is one lesson from recent disruptions, it is this: you cannot mitigate what you cannot see.

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Agentic AI in Supply Chains: The Future of Decision Making

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They can proactively identify risks, optimize processes in real time, and even negotiate supplier contracts without human oversight. These AI agents leverage real-time data, predictive analytics, and generative AI to enhance resilience, reduce costs, and improve overall efficiency in AI-driven supply chain resilience.

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Key Procurement Technology for Excellence in 2025

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Together, they enable procurement teams to move from reactive to proactive, optimizing sourcing strategies, improving supplier negotiations, and ensuring more accurate, real-time decision-making. Impact on Procurement: Spend analytics give CPOs visibility into spending patterns, supplier performance, and inefficiencies.

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Navigating Ecommerce Growth: Tools for Returns and Inventory Management in 2024

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For customers, inadequate customer support leads can lead to delays, extending the time for processing and refunds. Businesses confront re-stocking, handling damaged goods, adjusting inventory inaccuracies, and navigating the risk of overselling during high-demand periods. But how do you get to why a customer initiated a return?

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Which ProcureTech solution providers indicate Agentic AI will replace humans?

Procurement Insights

supplier analysis, spend optimization), automating workflows like order approvals. It aims for 500+ AI skills by 2025, enhancing real-time decisions (Forbes, Jan 21, 2025). SIDE NOTE: What Self-learning algorithms are they using to analyze suppliers, e.g., historical and real-time? Human Replacement?:

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Source-to-Pay Digital Transformation: Roadmap for Efficiency and Resilience

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Optimizing source-to-paythrough digital transformation streamlines every stage of your procurement strategy, improving visibility, efficiency, and collaboration. But digital transformation also has longer-term benefits for supplier collaboration. These begin with enhanced visibility.