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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

Healthcare Procurement Consulting: What It Covers

Natalie Eksi

Supplies and drugs are the second-largest line in a hospital's cost structure and the largest one that leadership can actually influence in a single budget year. Labor is bigger and far harder to move.

September 22, 2026

Life Science Procurement Consulting: What It Covers and What It Costs

Eugene Ponomarov, Mauricio Dezen

In most industries, a procurement team that finds a cheaper supplier has done its job. In life sciences, it has created work for the quality department and, if it moves too fast, a finding for an inspector.

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.

September 17, 2026

Procurement Efficiency in Agriculture and Food Processing: Why Growth Now Depends on Operational Control

Natalie Eksi, Emna Bahri

Procurement efficiency in agriculture and food processing is the ability to plan, source, and control purchasing across multiple farms, plants, and business units through one connected, governed process. It replaces fragmented, location-by-location buying with standardized tendering, verified supplier data, and spend visibility that feeds financial decisions in real time.

September 14, 2026

AI in Procurement Decision-Making: A CPO Interview with Mike Simms

Max Nikitiuk

AI in procurement decision-making is the practice of routing procurement choices between human and machine ownership based on reversibility, verifiability, and stakes, rather than delegating by category or spend size. It is the discipline of deciding, decision by decision, what AI can own and what a human must.

September 10, 2026

MRO Procurement: Process, Strategies & Best Practices

Natalie Eksi

MRO procurement is the process organizations use to source the spare parts, tools, lubricants, and maintenance services that keep equipment and facilities running. It falls under indirect spend, follows unplanned and urgent demand rather than a forecast, and directly affects production uptime, safety, and cost control.

September 01, 2026

AI in Procurement Decision-Making: Where It Helps and Where It Doesn’t

Natalie Eksi

AI in procurement decision-making refers to the use of machine learning and automation to support, accelerate, or partially replace human choices across sourcing, purchasing, and spend governance. Its value depends on the decision type: high-volume and reversible decisions benefit most, while ambiguous or high-stakes ones still require human ownership.

August 28, 2026

Auto Procurement Consulting: How Automotive OEMs and Suppliers Navigate EV, Chip, and Multi-Tier Supply Chain Complexity

Mauricio Dezen, Sajjadul Mawla

This article explores how automotive procurement consulting helps OEMs and suppliers overcome sub-tier vulnerabilities, execute clean-sheet teardown modeling, navigate complex EV/semiconductor sourcing, and maintain long-term operational governance through enterprise platforms like APSentra.

August 28, 2026

EV Procurement Consulting: How Organizations Navigate Fleet Electrification

Sharon Custer, Mauricio Dezen

This article covers what EV procurement consulting actually involves, the structured methodology consultants use to plan a fleet transition, the financing models built specifically for high-capital EV deployment, the charging and grid engineering behind it, and — because a plan is only as good as the system that keeps it current — where a platform like APSentra fits once the strategy has to run day to day.

August 28, 2026

Category Management Consulting: Frameworks, Cost, and What CFOs Should Expect

Mauricio Dezen, Eugene Ponomarov

A category strategy is one of the few consulting deliverables that can be measured honestly. Either the category costs less next year, or it doesn't.

August 28, 2026

Strategic Sourcing Consulting: What It Costs and What It Actually Delivers

Eugene Ponomarov, Natalie Eksi

Strategic sourcing consulting is one of the easier procurement purchases to justify. A firm runs a competitive event on a category, the price comes down, and the difference is measurable within a quarter.