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Navigating the Top 3 Procurement Challenges in 2025

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Procurement Priorities for 2025 and Beyond The manufacturing industry is evolving rapidly, leaving Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) grappling with challenges that could make or break their organizations. This can free up procurement professionals to focus on higher-value activities.

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Spend Matters Future 5 2024 – Introducing Halo Ai

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Spend Matters honors a vast array of procurement solution providers each year by selecting them for our ‘50 to Know,’ ‘50 to Watch,’ ‘Future 5’ and ‘Hall of Fame’ celebration lists. We believe these companies deserve greater visibility, especially in a market which is increasingly consolidating and diluting buyer choices.

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CPO Spotlight: Kendall Smith

Procurement Heads

I am the Chief Procurement Officer, which means that I am responsible for the procurement of everything that we don’t sell in stores or online, so everything non-product. The first thing I did was to strengthen the management of the procurement team. What does procurement mean to you and Currys?

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Webinar Recap: Data as the Driver of Effective Procurement Transformation

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How do Chief Procurement Officers and their teams leverage digital transformation to take control of their data and better deliver against their strategic objectives? . Data is central to successful digital transformation to relay real-time information and greater visibility into operations and resource allocation.

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Tail Spend: Your Guide to Full Spend Visibility and Savings

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This comprehensive guide will go over tail spend in procurement and provide resources for how to implement an effective tail spend management strategy. This shape represents your entire procurement spend. It's decentralized by buyers in the business (not procurement people). Put simply, procurement teams can’t do everything.

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

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These four steps constitute the downstream procure-to-pay part of the process. Optimizing source-to-paythrough digital transformation streamlines every stage of your procurement strategy, improving visibility, efficiency, and collaboration. These begin with enhanced visibility. Getting buy in is essential.

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Uniting manufacturing CFOs and procurement for margin expansion

Spend Matters

As the economy teeters between a so-called ‘soft landing’ and all-out recession, an emerging consensus across C-suites has taken shape: the time to cut costs is now. Once again, all eyes are on procurement. Using conversion funnels to turn skeptics into raving procurement enthusiasts “Can you give me feedback on this approach?