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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

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 Many finance teams struggle with Point Purchasing’s limited mobile access, outdated interface, limited punchouts, and lack of comprehensive accounts payable automation.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

5 Best Quartzy Alternatives in 2025: Better Lab Purchasing and Inventory Management

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Quartzy is a commonly used purchasing and lab inventory management solution in biotech companies. From purchasing to inventory management, Quartzy provides a complete purchasing solution and a user-friendly interface for biotech companies and finance teams, but there are better alternatives. But there are Quartzy alternatives worth considering. Some offer better purchasing and finance tools. Others… Continue reading 5 Best Quartzy Alternatives in 2025: Better Lab Purchasing and Inventory Management

How to Automate Purchase Orders – 7-Step Framework

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Manual purchase order management is costing your finance team valuable time. As procurement complexity increases with business growth, spreadsheet-based tracking and email approval chains create critical visibility gaps and control issues that directly impact your bottom line. Purchase order automation not only automates the manual process but also solves for inefficiencies in the procurement process.… Continue reading How to Automate Purchase Orders – 7-Step Framework

Accounts Payable Automation For QuickBooks

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Both QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Online have Accounts payable automation capabilities. However, the AP automation capabilities are limited to uploading bills and paying the bills. There is no approval workflow and invoice capture capabilities that you would find in an AP automation tool. If you are struggling with end-to-end payable workflow, you might want to… Continue reading Accounts Payable Automation For QuickBooks

Best AP Automation Software: 2025 Reviews

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Accounts Payable (AP) automation software generally falls into two categories: 1. AP automation software is made to just automate the AP process, specifically invoice processing, invoice payment, and reporting on spending patterns or categories. These solutions can typically be integrated with ERP systems. Popular examples of AP automation solutions are Stampli, AvidXchange, and Bill. 2.… Continue reading Best AP Automation Software: 2025 Reviews

Accounts Payable Automation Software Comparison – In-Depth Review of Features, Pricing, and More

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Looking for a purchase requisition software? We have compared 5 different requisition software for you so that can choose the best option.

Invoice Approval Workflow (& How to Automate Processes)

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The “invoice approval workflow” consists of the steps your accounts payable department follows to reconcile and clear invoices — this typically includes: However, the time requirement and involvement of this process vary by approach, and teams who use AP automation software can save countless hours on data entry, avoid human errors, and send payments more… Continue reading Invoice Approval Workflow (& How to Automate Processes)