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Read the latest thinking and insights from Suplari on procurement, data, and AI.

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Indirect Spend Management: How to Get Visibility and Control

July 28, 2026

Indirect spend is 25–40% of enterprise expenditure and the least governed. Get the 7 best practices, an AI-driven framework, and how Suplari brings indirect and tail spend under management.

Should-cost Modeling in Procurement: How AI is Replaces Spreadsheet Estimates with Data-driven Baselines

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September 23, 2026

Why traditional should-cost models fail — and how AI-native procurement intelligence platforms are making cost modeling faster, more accurate, and continuously updated

Human in the Loop Automation in Procurement: When AI Agents Need Human Judgment

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April 20, 2026

AI agents aren't replacing procurement professionals — they're creating a new way of working that demands different skills, different team structures, and a fundamentally different relationship with technology. This is human-agent teaming.

AI Agents for Tail Spend Management: How to Turn Procurement's Blind Spot into a Source of Savings

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September 22, 2026

Roughly 80% of your supplier base accounts for just 20% of your total spend. See how Suplari's AI agents help to turn this procurement blind spot into a source of savings.

What is Predictive Analytics in Procurement

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September 28, 2026

Predictive analytics in procurement forecasts spend, price movements and supplier risk before they hit. Use cases, required data and where it beats reporting.

Compare Popular Business Spend Management Methods and Tools

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September 29, 2026

Compare categories of business spend management tools, what each one controls, where each stops, and how to pick the method that fits the spend type carrying your biggest blind spot.

Spend Performance Management: Key Components, Best Practices, and How AI Changes Everything

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September 23, 2026

Spend performance management gives procurement teams a framework to close the 40–60% gap between identified and realized savings — with six key components, a 90-day implementation roadmap, and AI agents that shift tracking from periodic to continuous.

How to Write an RFP for Spend and Procurement Analytics

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August 25, 2026

An analytics RFP should ask testable questions across seven pillars: company, data, AI, analytics, security, implementation and cost. Free template included.

Why you Shouldn’t use ChatGPT for Procurement

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August 25, 2026

ChatGPT handles ad hoc procurement questions but stalls on systematic work. The security, integration and accuracy limits, plus four options to use instead.

Press Releases

Introducing Suplari Data Assistant: Automated Procurement Data Management with AI

Introducing Suplari Data Assistant: automated procurement data management Meta description: Suplari Data Assistant is an AI agent that ingests procurement data from any source, corrects data faults without human escalation, and repairs broken connectors when source systems change.

Suplari Named to The Hackett Group's "50 to Know" Procurement Provider List for 2025-2026

Suplari has been named to The Hackett Group's prestigious "50 to Know" procurement provider list for 2025-2026, recognizing the company as an established industry leader every chief procurement officer should know.

Suplari Launches AI-Ready Procurement Intelligence Platform, Introducing a New Category Beyond Spend Analytics

Suplari launches the Procurement Intelligence Platform, the first solution combining an AI-ready data foundation, procurement-specific AI agents, and closed-loop execution to replace backward-looking spend analytics with real-time intelligence tied to P&L outcomes.

Suplari Recognized in the ProcureTech100 for 2025/26

Suplari selected to the 2025/26 ProcureTech100 after re-entering as an independent company. Recognition follows expansion into AI-driven decision intelligence and agentic AI.

Announcing Suplari Tariff Insights Overview

New tariffs reshape sourcing strategies across Canada, China, EU, and Mexico. Suplari's Tariff Insights quantifies exposure by category, supplier, and origin.

SpendMatters Recognizes Suplari for Customer Service Excellence as a 2024 Customer Favorite

SpendMatters recently published its “SolutionMap Insider” and Suplari was recognized as a “2024 Customer Favorite.” The survey of over 90 solution providers concluded that Suplari offers among the industry’s most exceptional “customer service,” demonstrated by its “ability to adapt to changing business needs” and matched by an innovative “ever-evolving product.”

Founders complete divestiture of Suplari from Microsoft

Suplari divested from Microsoft 12 December, 2023 to accelerate its generative AI-powered procurement vision. Original founders return as CEO, CTO, and CRO to lead the next chapter.

Suplari Named Winner of DPW’s DEMO Cost Reduction & Savings Category

Suplari Launches Agile Performance Management, the New Procurement and Finance Solution for Planning, Tracking, and Optimizing Spend

CPOs, CFOs, and business leaders can now plan, execute, and measure savings using normalized data and AI-generated insights with Suplari Agile Performance Management.

Suplari Raises Additional Financing to Support the Launch of AI-Driven Enterprise Insights System

Suplari raised financing from Amplify, Madrona, Shasta, Two Sigma, and Workday Ventures to launch the first AI-driven enterprise insights system for procurement and finance.

Suplari Named a 2019 Gartner Cool Vendor in Sourcing and Procurement Applications

Gartner named Suplari a 2019 Cool Vendor for AI-enabled procurement that increases efficiency, improves automation, and delivers actionable insights beyond sporadic reporting.

Suplari Welcomes New Customer: New York Public Library (NYPL)

NYPL chose Suplari for advanced spend management with Workday. The nation's largest public library gains AI-powered visibility into spend and purchasing compliance.

Introducing Suplari Canvas: AI-built procurement dashboards from a plain-language prompt

Suplari Canvas is an agent-built visualization surface that creates procurement dashboards from a plain-language prompt, on unified spend, supplier and contract data.

Suplari Named a 2026 Top Tech for Spend Analytics by The Hackett Group

Suplari has been recognized as a 2026 Top Tech for Spend Analytics by The Hackett Group, earning top marks for its AI-powered Procurement Intelligence Platform and exceptional customer value.