Listen to Greg Tennyson, Head of Global Corporate Services at VSP, and Suplari CEO Nikesh Parekh as they discuss Mergers and Acquisitions in the context of analytics tools.
How to Leverage Analytics for M&A Procurement Synergies.
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5 Reasons for Your CFO to be Optimistic in 2021
The economy looks to be improving. There are five key reasons to be optimistic for 2021: COVID-19 vaccines, rising consumer sentiment, optimistic business outlooks, rising manufacturing indices, and a reduce likelihood of a contested election. Budget conservatively, but plan to be agile for upside in 2021.
How Procurement Can Run an Effective Supplier Diversity Program
Despite the benefits, many enterprises struggle to effectively run their diversity program. Even when such programs are blessed by Executive sponsorship and have a high priority, enterprises often do not have tools and data to manage a program effectively and efficiently. Let’s look at some of the key problems:
CPO’s Playbook for Leveraging Data and Innovation to Reinvent Procurement
Overview: BT Group Chief Procurement Officer Cyril Pourrat and Sr. Transformation Officer Adam Brown discuss how they are powering “the salesforce of the bottom line” at BT Group using Suplari for spend analytics, spend intelligence and spend agility. CEO of the Sourcing Industry Group Dawn Tiura interviews Cyril Pourrat, Adam Brown and Suplari CEO Nikesh … Read More
Strategic CPO Reveals how to use Spend Analytics for Supplier Renegotiations During the Coronavirus Crisis
Media News Group Chief Procurement Officer Jeff Ball is using spend analytics and Suplari to renegotiate spend and payment terms with his top one hundred suppliers amidst 2020’s coronavirus crisis. Understanding spend across the enterprise puts him in a better position to negotiate terms. Suplari insights also enable Media News Group to capture rebates from … Read More
An Expert CPO’s Advice on Elevating Procurement Into a Strategic Function
Media News Group Chief Procurement Officer Jeff Ball discusses how to elevate procurement strategically in the enterprise through Zero-Based Budgeting, Driving Cash Flow, and Partnering with the CFO.
5 Easy Procurement Negotiation & Savings Tactics in a Downturn
Executive Insights Companies are aggressively looking for tactics to reduce costs and unlock savings on all their indirect and direct purchases and to more effectively manage their cash flow in procurement. Declining market demand and over-capacity is driving finished product manufacturers to put price pressure on their suppliers. They too must then re-negotiate contracts with … Read More
Calculating Outliers in Spend Data – Part 2 Bootstrapping
In the last blog post, I described two rules: the empirical and IQR rules, that could be used to calculate outliers. However, those rules were only valid with normally distributed data. Spend data is rarely normally distributed and is typically right-skewed. This means it has many small transactions and few large transactions like figure (1) … Read More
Stunning New Insights that Unlock Proven Cash Flow Savings
Managing cash flow, finding savings, and enforcing new spend policies are top of mind for most CFOs right now. With no end in sight to the coronavirus crisis (yet), procurement teams must prepare now for a recession. Their big challenge is to determine what should be prioritized to maximize results. Suplari is reacting quickly to customer requests to deliver fully automated insights from a customers existing ERP and financial data that identify opportunities to conserve cash, avoid large payments, negotiate better terms, and enforce new policies.
Procurement in the Driver’s Seat: A Strategy for Recession Planning
Procurement leaders have a unique opportunity to play a proactive role in managing risk and reducing spend to help provide much needed flexibility in this time of high uncertainty. At Suplari, we’re ready to help support procurement and finance teams as they strive to come out of this crisis stronger than ever.
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