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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 Many finance teams struggle with Point Purchasing’s limited mobile access, outdated interface, limited punchouts, and lack of comprehensive accounts payable automation.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)

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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 select a purchase order system – Infographic

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If you are in the market for a new purchase order system, you would easily realize that you have a plethora of choices.  Don’t believe me, just do a quick google search on purchase order system and you can see what I am talking about. Having multiple available options is both good and bad news.… Continue reading How to select a purchase order system – Infographic

Corporate Travel and Expense (T&E) Policy Best Practices [Complete Guide]

Corporate Travel and Expense (T&E) Policy Best Practices [Complete Guide] Learn more icon

Why Talk About Travel And Expense Policy Best Practices? I think that you would agree with me that although Travel and expense (T&E) spend is not a major contributor to the total spend, it still needs a lot of attention and resources to process the expense reports for employees. This includes defining a Travel & Expense (T&E)… Continue reading Corporate Travel and Expense (T&E) Policy Best Practices [Complete Guide]

5 Tips For Cutting Cost and Improving Profitability

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Cash flow represents the amount of money coming into your company and the amount of money going out. It’s extremely important for small businesses. Cash inflow is the core of your company and comes from different sources – payments from customers, interest on savings or investments, receipt of a loan, monetary infusion from an investor,… Continue reading 5 Tips For Cutting Cost and Improving Profitability

10 Ways for SMB’s to reduce Employee benefits cost

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For businesses for all sizes, employee benefits is one of the top spend category. Large companies can somewhat control and reduce employee benefits cost by leveraging the volume discounts but for small to medium business that is not an option. Also given the recent changes due to Affordable care Act(ACA), SMB’s benefits cost will further… Continue reading 10 Ways for SMB’s to reduce Employee benefits cost

10 ways  to Reduce Your Print Cost

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There are many factors to consider if you want to calculate the true printing cost in your company’s office in order to know how to reduce it. The expense of using an office printer isn’t just the purchase price of the machine. Total Cost of Ownership depends on the price of an appropriate toner or… Continue reading 10 ways to Reduce Your Print Cost

The Advantages of Automated Purchasing and Invoicing, Crafting a Compelling Business Case Procure-to-Pay [Template Included]

The Advantages of Automated Purchasing and Invoicing, Crafting a Compelling Business Case Procure-to-Pay [Template Included] Learn more icon

Procurement and Accounts payable automation has many benefits including productivity improvement, process cost reduction, and so on. However, Like any other investment, companies need to justify the investments to the finance team for such an initiative. In this post, we will cover the key benefits of purchasing and invoicing automation and how to build your… Continue reading The Advantages of Automated Purchasing and Invoicing, Crafting a Compelling Business Case Procure-to-Pay [Template Included]