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September 22, 2026
Procurement Software vs. Excel/Spreadsheets
Mauricio Dezen, Eugene Ponomarov
Roughly 80% of mid-market companies still run procurement on some combination of email and spreadsheets. Procurement software is a purpose-built system for how a company buys things — intake, approval, sourcing, budget control, and payment, all governed by rules the system enforces automatically.
September 22, 2026
Procurement Cost Reduction Strategies: What Actually Works
Natalie Eksi
Every procurement leader has seen the same slide: a savings number, a green arrow, and a total at the bottom that never quite matches what finance sees on the income statement. That gap is not a rounding error. It is the central fact of cost reduction work, and most published advice on the topic skips straight past it.