Your supplier knows exactly what your company spent with them last year. Spend visibility decides whether you know it too. Here’s where your spend hides across cards, expenses, invoices, and business units, plus five practical steps to build one view you can negotiate from.
Follow one ordinary purchase through the source-to-pay process, from purchase order to paid invoice, and see every stop where a buyer re-keys the same supplier, price, quantity, and date. Then use three habits that shorten the trail in the systems you already run.
Most purchase requests stall before sourcing starts. This practical guide to procurement process improvement walks you through four stages, from a complete request to a sourcing-ready record, with a free template for each stage and three measures that show whether it is working.
Follow one ordinary purchase through the source-to-pay process, from purchase order to paid invoice, and see every stop where a buyer re-keys the same supplier, price, quantity, and date. Then use three habits that shorten the trail in the systems you already run.
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