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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.
August 04, 2026
Why Procurement ROI Fails CFO Scrutiny
Natalie Eksi, Mauricio Dezen
Procurement ROI fails CFO scrutiny when the savings figure cannot be traced back to a system record. The calculation is rarely the problem. What finance rejects is a number assembled by the team being measured, built on baselines nobody else can verify, that never appears in the budget it was supposed to improve.
June 17, 2026
Procurement in Capital Projects: How Spend Governance Protects Investment Returns
Natalie Eksi, Sajjadul Mawla
Procurement in capital projects is the governance of supplier selection, committed spend, and change orders across the full project lifecycle. It determines whether an approved capital investment delivers its modeled return, by holding cost commitments visible, verifying delivery against contract, and feeding real-time spend data into financial oversight.
June 10, 2026
Best Procurement Software Platforms
Max Nikitiuk, Natalie Eksi
A structured comparison of 14 procurement platforms evaluated across five criteria: governance depth, AI capability, implementation speed, ERP flexibility, and total cost of ownership. Each platform is assessed on what it actually delivers — not on marketing claims.
April 27, 2026
Procurement Audit Guide for CFOs: How to Turn Savings into Real ROI
Natalie Eksi
A procurement audit is a structured, finance-validated review that verifies whether negotiated savings have actually reached the P&L. It bridges the gap between contracted discounts and invoiced reality, transforming notional cost claims into defensible, board-ready realized ROI.