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Articles on sourcing, supplier management and cost savings.

what is strategic sourcing
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What is strategic sourcing and why does it matter more than ever?

Strategic sourcing is the structured way procurement teams choose suppliers and set contract terms for each spend category, judged on total cost of ownership over several years instead of the lowest unit price. For procurement and sourcing teams, that work

13 min read

What is strategic sourcing and why does it matter more than ever?

Strategic sourcing is the structured way procurement teams choose suppliers and set contract terms for each spend category, judged on total cost of ownership over several years instead of the lowest

13 min read

What Is Procure-to-Pay (P2P)?

Procure-to-pay (P2P) is the end-to-end cycle a purchasing organization runs from identifying a need through paying the supplier, connecting the procurement function with accounts payable (AP), the finance team that verifies

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AI for Supplier Management: What a Lean Team Can Automate Today

If suppliers are your job and you are the only person doing it, AI supplier management can sound like one more project there is no time for. The week already fills

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Invoice Approval Workflows: How to Save Money and Avoid Late Fees

A supplier invoice on 2/10 net 30 terms carries a 2% discount that expires on day ten. That 2% is money you already negotiated, and it pays out only if the

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7 Procurement Tasks Every Company Should Automate Today

Most procurement work is repetitive, high volume and rule bound, which is exactly the work software does well. Deciding which task to automate first is where teams get stuck. The seven

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RFP Software vs Spreadsheets: Which Approach Saves More Time?

Your last sourcing event probably lived in three places at once: a quote template in Excel, an email thread with the suppliers, and a comparison tab that two people edited without

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How is AI Transforming Procurement in 2026?

Fifty percent of procurement executives now use generative AI at least weekly, more than triple the 16% who did in 2023, according to AI at Wharton’s 2024 research. That jump shows

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CenterPoint Group and Prokuria Complete Merger to Deliver AI-Powered Smart Procurement Solutions Globally

CenterPoint Group, a global leader in group purchasing and strategic procurement solutions, and Prokuria, an innovative artificial intelligence (AI)-driven procurement technology company, today announced the successful completion of their merger. The

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Negotiation Tactics: Strategic Playbooks for Data-Driven Procurement Teams

Here’s a brief podcast to help you out if you don’t have time to go through the full article: Negotiation used to be about persuasion and instinct. Today, it’s about data,

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Launching and Managing an RFP Without Chaos

In case you don’t have time to read the whole article, here is a short video summary: Launching a Request for Proposal (RFP) should not feel like unleashing a storm of

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Audit Trail In Procurement: Why And How To Do It

In case you don’t have time to read the whole article, here is a quick video: Every transaction your company conducts has a trail of data. Taking the time to make

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How To Set Up A Purchase Order Approval Process

Here is a podcast summary of the entire article if you don’t have time to read it in full: Introduction If you’ve ever chased down managers for approvals, lost a PO