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Budgeting Process: Steps and Best Practices for Planning a Budget

Planergy

How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. Using financial tools can help save time and resources while improving accuracy in the budgeting process. Why is Business Budgeting Important? Budgeting should be part of regular financial planning.

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Understanding Spend Management Perspectives: CFO, CEO, Procurement Director & Procurement Manager

NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

Spend Management is a critical function within an organization, and it involves the strategic management of the company’s spending to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and enhance profitability. However, I also recognize that we need to balance cost savings with the need to invest in the future.

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Business Spend Management | Amplify Savings in Top Categories

Una

Amplify Your Business Spend Management Strategies with a GPO. Any business, regardless of size, can take advantage of the “strength in numbers” concept and access pre-negotiated contracts with some of the nation’s top suppliers and vendors , saving big on their portion of spend. GPOs aren’t just about generating cost savings.

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Trax: Vendor Analysis — Transportation Spend Management solution overview, competitors, tech selection tips, analyst summary

Spend Matters

Categories: Analysis , Procurement Systems & Architecture , Spend Management , Supply Chain , Supply Chain Management , Trade Financing Tags: PRO This Spend Matters PRO Vendor Analysis gives an overview of Trax, a Transportation Spend Management (TSM) solution.

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The Supply Chain Transparency Challenge: Report Highlights Gap between Procurement Organisations’ Transparency Ambitions and their Capabilities

ivalua

The majority of organizations consider supply chain transparency to be a top priority, however less than a third are satisfied with the level of visibility into their suppliers. Most organizations continue to suffer from severely limited visibility in the lower levels of their supply chains. About the research.

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Ivalua Launches Collaboration and AI-Powered Innovations to Help Organizations Improve Supply Chain Resilience and Profitability

ivalua

New release features AI-powered contract management, more seamless messaging and communications, supplier risk and performance enhancements and procure-to-pay efficiency . Redwood City, CA – 11 July, 2022 – Ivalua , a global leader in Cloud Spend Management solutions , announced the general availability of its new platform release 174.

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How effective Tail Spend Management can drive cost savings

Procurement Software

Instead of looking at direct materials and purchased parts, the hidden opportunity is often found in effective tail spend management. The best opportunities now lie in tail spend management. This is usually areas of indirect spend which have previously been relatively unexplored. What is tail spend?