Executive Insights Companies are aggressively looking for tactics to reduce costs and unlock savings on all their indirect and direct purchases and to more effectively manage their cash flow in procurement. Declining market demand and over-capacity is driving finished product manufacturers to put price pressure on their suppliers. They too must then re-negotiate contracts with … Read More
Month: May 2020
Suplari Honored as a 2020 Procurement Provider to Watch
Suplari has been recognized by Spend Matters as one of the fast-rising and most promising “50 to Watch” procurement providers for 2020. Independently selected by Spend Matters analysts based on growth, innovation, tech capabilities, and solution delivery — Suplari is most certainly a company worth watching!
How to Unlock Supplier Data for Remarkable 90-Day Impact
Now more than ever, companies need actionable insights from their data to improve performance in every part of the organization and to help weather Covid-19 and all its economic impacts.
Calculating Outliers in Spend Data – Part 2 Bootstrapping
In the last blog post, I described two rules: the empirical and IQR rules, that could be used to calculate outliers. However, those rules were only valid with normally distributed data. Spend data is rarely normally distributed and is typically right-skewed. This means it has many small transactions and few large transactions like figure (1) … Read More
