Eldar Tuvey, is CEO and cofounder of Vertice, a spend optimization platform that saves companies up to 25% on their SaaS and cloud costs. The turbulence of recent years has underscored the critical ...

Imagine this scenario. Your procurement team starts Monday morning with 47 unread emails, a dozen Slack messages about urgent purchases, and three sticky notes from Friday's hallway conversations.

When I wrote “Workflow Is the Next Step for iOS Automation” (21 December 2014), I had no idea how literal that title would prove to be. Apple has now purchased Workflow and the team behind it. As you ...

Material procurement explained: Process, strategies, and benefits Getting the right materials at the right time and price is incredibly important for any successful business. Material procurement ...

The process captures each request, evaluates it for completeness, priority, and policy compliance, then directs it through the appropriate approval and purchasing workflow. This intake stage happens ...

In the future, the lines between intake and the rest of procurement may blur, as platforms automatically carry a request from initial need all the way through supplier selection and purchase order, ...