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ResourcesGuides, playbooks and analysis for procurement and finance teams doing the work. Each piece is something you could act on before the quarter ends.
Most procurement content exists to rank for a term rather than to be useful once somebody arrives.
The test we apply is whether a procurement or finance professional could read a piece and do something differently the same week. If the answer is no, it does not get published, however well it might perform in search.
That rules out a lot of familiar categories. Nothing here is about digital transformation journeys, and nothing describes the future of procurement. What is here covers approval thresholds, matching tolerances, supplier data cleanup and how to run a first sourcing event.
If you are early in an evaluation, the approval matrix guide and the piece on where savings come from are the two most useful. If you already have a platform and are trying to make it work, the adoption playbook and the supplier data cleanup sequence are more relevant.
These four cover the questions we are asked most often during an evaluation.
How to set thresholds that catch genuine risk without making somebody wait three days on a small purchase, including the patterns that break.
Read it PlaybookA four week sequence for de-duplicating suppliers, closing document gaps and consolidating overlapping spend, in the order that keeps finance on side.
Read it AnalysisDuplicate suppliers, off contract buying, unused licences and missed volume breaks, with the patterns we see across customers.
Read it GuideWhat it catches, what it does not, and the tolerance settings that determine whether accounts payable drowns in exceptions.
Read itAdoption is a design problem rather than a training problem. What separates rollouts that stick from the ones that revert to email.
Read it GuideChoosing the category, writing a specification suppliers can bid against, and the rules that keep it fair.
Read it GuideWhy attaching the agreement to the procurement beats chasing six suppliers individually, and what to expect in redlines.
Read it AnalysisWhy recording spend at approval rather than at invoice removes most month end surprises, and what it asks of your process.
Read it AnalysisHow to calculate what eight days actually costs in rush fees, stockouts and finance time, so the business case writes itself.
Read it PlaybookThe most common rollout mistake is a thin catalog. How to decide what goes in it and what to add next.
Read itThirty terms defined plainly, from commitment accounting to flow down clauses, grouped by where you meet them.
Open the glossaryHonest comparisons against the platforms you are probably also evaluating, including where each of them fits better.
CompareAn eight day purchase order cycle becoming under four hours, and the rollout sequence behind it.
Read itThirty minutes with a procurement specialist beats anything we could write.
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