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The Untapped Power of Tail Spend: Transforming Overlooked Purchases into Strategic Advantage
Discover how effective tail spend management helps enterprises uncover hidden savings, strengthen compliance, and drive supplier innovation. Learn why managing overlooked purchases is now a strategic priority for modern CPOs. In nearly every enterprise, a small portion of suppliers accounts...
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Simfoni & Kearney Procurement Experts Unveil Strategies to Maximize Tail Spend Efficiency on ‘The Sourcing Industry Landscape’ Podcast
Simfoni’s Stefan Dent takes the stage at ISM World to demystify the problem of tail spend. Simfoni.com Tweet In a recent episode of the Sourcing Industry Landscape podcast, titled “Mastering Tail Spend’s Hidden Potential: Insights from Kearney and Simfoni”, guests...
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Simfoni and Kearney Join Forces to Revolutionize Tail Spend Management
Simfoni’s partnership with Kearney, backed by an $8 million investment, marks a significant advancement in tail spend management technology Tweet In a significant move to transform tail spend management, Simfoni has secured an $8 million investment in a Series A-2...
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Taming the Tail: Unlocking Tail Spend Management for Procurement Success in 2023
Simfoni’s Stefan Dent takes the stage at ISM World to demystify the problem of tail spend. Simfoni.com Tweet Last week, I had the opportunity to take the stage at the ISM World Conference in Dallas, Texas, where I discussed ‘The...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...