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The National Program of IT as the Alter-Ego of Procurement

The Good Spending

Eventually, a confidential report was produced in February 2006 stating that Lorenzo had "no mapping of features to release, nor detailed plans. Strangely, Accenture engaged in swift negotiations with the health service, and in September 2006, after making a penalty payment of just £63 million, it duly exited the program.

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Zip Forward 2024: Forging paths to sustainable success

Spend Matters

This last requirement may be rather technical, but the enabled capabilities allow for earlier, deeper and tailored stakeholder engagement to provide better experience/satisfaction, adoption — which, ironically, is a characteristic that Coupa has continually held as the North Star — spend compliance and influence on pre-sourced spend.