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The Complete Spend Control Playbook for Finance Teams (2025 Guide)

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74% of CPOs have made savings a top priority in 2025, yet 65% of organizations still lack visibility into indirect spend. If you’re a controller or finance leader managing procurement responsibilities alongside your core duties, you’re facing what we call the “procurement gap” – your company has outgrown manual processes but lacks the dedicated team… Continue reading The Complete Spend Control Playbook for Finance Teams (2025 Guide)

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The Complete Spend Control Playbook for Finance Teams (2025 Guide)

The Complete Spend Control Playbook for Finance Teams (2025 Guide)Learn more arrow icon

74% of CPOs have made savings a top priority in 2025, yet 65% of organizations still lack visibility into indirect spend. If you’re a controller or finance leader managing procurement responsibilities alongside your core duties, you’re facing what we call the “procurement gap” – your company has outgrown manual processes but lacks the dedicated team… Continue reading The Complete Spend Control Playbook for Finance Teams (2025 Guide)

7 Best Point Purchasing Alternatives: 2025 Reviews

7 Best Point Purchasing Alternatives: 2025 ReviewsLearn more arrow icon

Point Purchasing’s web-based system handles basic requisitions and authorization routing, but growing companies need more robust procurement automation. Many finance teams struggle with Point Purchasing’s limited mobile access, outdated interface, limited punchouts, and lack of comprehensive accounts payable automation. We compiled this guide to review ProcureDesk and other procurement solutions that offer modern features Point… Continue reading 7 Best Point Purchasing Alternatives: 2025 Reviews

5 Ways to Eliminate Rogue Spending (Without Saying ‘No’ to Everything)

5 Ways to Eliminate Rogue Spending (Without Saying ‘No’ to Everything)Learn more arrow icon

You’re reviewing last month’s expenses when you spot it again – a $500 Amazon purchase on someone’s personal credit card, submitted for reimbursement without any approval. Sound familiar? If you’re a controller at a growing company, you’ve likely seen this scenario play out dozens of times. Employees need supplies to do their jobs, but the… Continue reading 5 Ways to Eliminate Rogue Spending (Without Saying ‘No’ to Everything)

How to Implement a 3-Way Match Process

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Is your Accounts payables team struggling with matching invoices with purchase orders and receipts (a.k.a three-way match)? Do you know that by automating the three-way matching process, the accounts payable team can reduce the time spent on processing invoices by 30%? Yes, 30% productivity improvement for the accounts payable department. Curious as to how to… Continue reading How to Implement a 3-Way Match Process

Lowering operating costs in 2019 – Strategies for mid-market companies CFO’s

Lowering operating costs in 2019 – Strategies for mid-market companies CFO’s Learn more icon

Lowering operating costs shouldn’t only be CFO’s (Chief Financial officer) job. Unfortunately, in most companies, that turns out to be CFO’s main priority given the corporate mandate. But for the savings to stick, CFO’s need to have cost reduction as a repeatable and sustainable process. We urge CFO’s to view cost reduction and especially operating… Continue reading Lowering operating costs in 2019 – Strategies for mid-market companies CFO’s

Procurement Salary Benchmarks [2010-2018]

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Curious about Procurement Salary benchmarks? We are also and we will be answering most of your questions around salary benchmarks. There are primarily two reasons we are covering Procurement salary benchmarks 1. Providing A Baseline For Procurement Professionals As you know most of our readers are procurement professionals, and if you are reading this chances… Continue reading Procurement Salary Benchmarks [2010-2018]

9 Ways To Increase Procurement And Finance Collaboration [Complete Guide]

9 Ways To Increase Procurement And Finance Collaboration [Complete Guide] Learn more icon

In many companies, procurement and finance often work separately, each with its own goals. But it’s important to understand their vital roles in the procure-to-pay (P2P) process. Without proper teamwork between them, your business might miss important opportunities. Today, businesses are realizing the benefits of closer collaboration between procurement and finance. That’s why, in this… Continue reading 9 Ways To Increase Procurement And Finance Collaboration [Complete Guide]

Purchasing Policy Guide for CFO’s [Template Included]

Purchasing Policy Guide for CFO’s [Template Included] Learn more icon

Bonus Material:  Free Purchasing Policy Template Looking to control cost and get better cash flow visibility? Are you looking to implement a new purchasing policy? Then this strategy would help you implement a purchasing policy that not only helps control cost but also helps with setting up your company procurement process for growth. In this… Continue reading Purchasing Policy Guide for CFO’s [Template Included]

ProcureDesk Review by Financesonline.com

ProcureDesk Review by Financesonline.com Learn more icon

ProcureDesk Certified With 2 Procurement Software Distinctions By A Notable Platform For Saas Reviews We are pleased to announce that ProcureDesk has recently become a two-time winner, as we received the 2018 Rising Star and 2018 Great User Experience awards from FinancesOnline. Our purchasing automation software was built to simplify the processes of small and… Continue reading ProcureDesk Review by Financesonline.com