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3 Ways to Ensure High Quality Spend Data
High-quality spend data is essential for any business looking to optimize its procurement processes. However, achieving this can be challenging. Procurement data, and in particular indirect, or ‘tail spend,’ can be difficult to manage. If left unchecked, this can lead...
Spend Under Management Part Three: Achieving the ‘Closed-Loop’ Spend Management Model
In our previous two installments, we’ve discussed the spend-under-management (SUM) framework. Specifically, how it provides executives with a simple outcome-based model that drives the necessary organizational changes needed within the procurement function to capitalize on unrealized savings. SUM transforms what...
Spend Under Management Part Two: The 5 Key Principles of Proper Spend Management
In our last post, we discussed adopting spend under management (SUM) and the first of the five principles: Spend Under Management Part One: Connecting Procurement to Your Core Business Spend Under Management Part Two: The 5 Key Principles of Proper...
Spend Under Management Part One: Connecting Procurement to Your Core Business
Procurement is still often seen as a non-strategic back-office function. This is because practitioners often focus too narrowly on measuring cost savings directly from sourcing initiatives and lose sight of how those initiatives impact core financial metrics—such as total cost...
3 Ways Machine Learning Helps Manage Spend
NOT JUST A BUZZWORD—HERE ARE 3 WAYS MACHINE LEARNING HELPS MANAGE SPEND Simfoni.com Tweet When running a successful business or organization, the bottom line is everything. That’s why classifying spend and keeping track of where the money goes after it leaves your organization’s...
3 Ways Proper Spend Management Can Ease Inflationary Pressures
All companies are navigating an uncertain market due to high inflation, which challenges the traditional ways companies typically seek out savings. While inflation usually eats into their bottom line, some companies see it as an opportunity to create a competitive...
5 Tips for Getting Your Tail Spend Under Control
When procurement professionals debate tail spend, they are often referring to non-strategic purchases that account for 10%-20% of an organization’s indirect spend. Large global enterprise businesses often have thousands of low throughput ‘tail’ suppliers supplying low-value purchase items, from copy...
What is Business Impact Analysis? Why and How it is Implemented?
Business Impact Analysis is a method to predict the consequences of disruptions to a business and its processes or systems by collecting relevant data that can be used to develop strategies for the business to recover in the case of...
How to Quickly and Successfully Manage Indirect Spend
In a recent article in Forbes “Follow the Money: Five Ways to Improve Your Bottom Line By Taking a Closer Look at Spending Habits.” Jason Stern outlined the key areas to focus on to improve profitability through Spend Management. Building...
Can companies REALLY ‘do more with less’ and still thrive?
This article is for: CEOs, CFOs and CPOs trying to do more with less, looking to identify and unlock hidden value in their businesses or drive digital transformation without large budgets. Topics Covered: Procurement Strategy, Immediate ROI, Spend Analytics/Intelligence, Private...