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Downloadable eBooks
eBooks are a great place to begin your relationship with Suplari. Suplari strives to provide high-quality business guidance and informational materials that inform and educate. We offer a wide variety of content themes for procurement and finance specializing in those central to applications of AI & machine learning technology. You’ll find research studies on high-level economic trends influencing procurement strategy to tactical guides for digital transformation detailing ways to optimize enterprise spend management. Please browse our eBook library, freely download and share with your colleagues.
Guide: Solving Top 4 Challenges in Spend Management for Enterprise Procurement & Finance – Download Now
eBook: Next Generation Intelligent Spend & Financial Management Learning – Download Now
Case Study Kit: Enterprise Procurement and Finance Leaders Find Success and Growth – Download Now
Report: Plans & Tactics to Recession-Proof the Enterprise – Download Now
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Presentation: CPO’s – How to Leverage Spend Agility to Get Your Raise
Suplari CEO Nikesh Parekh Discusses why the CPO and procurement function are critical to driving profitability in a post-COVID business environment and builds a case for why CPOs should leverage this opportunity to drive more value and improve their earnings potential.
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Broadening Procurement’s Impact: How Telecom Giant BT Drives the Bottom Line and Corporate Resiliency
Profitability is more important than ever — and procurement leaders are more strategic than ever. Procurement is no longer just a cost center, a spender of money made by others in the enterprise. With the right tools and methodology, procurement can maximize every dollar of profit and discover every dollar of cost savings, positioning them to be critical drivers of the bottom line.
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How to Leverage Analytics for M&A Procurement Synergies.
Listen to Greg Tennyson, Head of Global Corporate Services at VSP, and Suplari CEO Nikesh Parekh as they discuss Mergers and Acquisitions in the context of analytics tools.
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5 Reasons for Your CFO to be Optimistic in 2021
The economy looks to be improving. There are five key reasons to be optimistic for 2021: COVID-19 vaccines, rising consumer sentiment, optimistic business outlooks, rising manufacturing indices, and a reduce likelihood of a contested election. Budget conservatively, but plan to be agile for upside in 2021.
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How Procurement Can Run an Effective Supplier Diversity Program
Despite the benefits, many enterprises struggle to effectively run their diversity program. Even when such programs are blessed by Executive sponsorship and have a high priority, enterprises often do not have tools and data to manage a program effectively and efficiently. Let’s look at some of the key problems:
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The Imperative for Enterprise Spend Agility
What is Spend Agility? Spend agility is the ability for enterprises to rapidly assess, predict & change spend, investments and operations strategy in real time, to capture value-creation opportunities.
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CPO’s Playbook for Leveraging Data and Innovation to Reinvent Procurement
Overview: BT Group Chief Procurement Officer Cyril Pourrat and Sr. Transformation Officer Adam Brown discuss how they are powering “the salesforce of the bottom line” at BT Group using Suplari for spend analytics, spend intelligence and spend agility. CEO of the Sourcing Industry Group Dawn Tiura interviews Cyril Pourrat, Adam Brown and Suplari CEO Nikesh … Read More
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Suplari Connect – Planning, Collaboration & Savings Tracking for Finance and Procurement Teams
In today’s world of dispersed teams and even entire enterprises, due to COVID, asynchronous communication, planning and collaboration are critical to success. The ability to take action rapidly, based on the data and insights, has separated Suplari customers from the rest. Executive leadership, CPOs, CFOs, procurement and finance teams, needed to swiftly collaborate with suppliers and triage spend as COVID changed the landscape in early 2020.
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Strategic CPO Reveals how to use Spend Analytics for Supplier Renegotiations During the Coronavirus Crisis
Media News Group Chief Procurement Officer Jeff Ball is using spend analytics and Suplari to renegotiate spend and payment terms with his top one hundred suppliers amidst 2020’s coronavirus crisis. Understanding spend across the enterprise puts him in a better position to negotiate terms. Suplari insights also enable Media News Group to capture rebates from … Read More
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An Expert CPO’s Advice on Elevating Procurement Into a Strategic Function
Media News Group Chief Procurement Officer Jeff Ball discusses how to elevate procurement strategically in the enterprise through Zero-Based Budgeting, Driving Cash Flow, and Partnering with the CFO.
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Integration of ScoutRFP and Suplari: Spend Analytics & Insights Meet RFPs
Today, we are announcing the ability for ScoutRFP RFP customers to integrate with Suplari’s advanced spend analytics, reporting and insights platform. Scout RFP is a leading strategic sourcing and supplier engagement platform, while Suplari delivers AI-driven analytics and insights for procurement & finance teams.
Read More5 Easy Procurement Negotiation & Savings Tactics in a Downturn
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
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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.
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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
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Stunning New Insights that Unlock Proven Cash Flow Savings
Managing cash flow, finding savings, and enforcing new spend policies are top of mind for most CFOs right now. With no end in sight to the coronavirus crisis (yet), procurement teams must prepare now for a recession. Their big challenge is to determine what should be prioritized to maximize results. Suplari is reacting quickly to customer requests to deliver fully automated insights from a customers existing ERP and financial data that identify opportunities to conserve cash, avoid large payments, negotiate better terms, and enforce new policies.
Read MoreOn-Demand Webinars
Discover hours of detailed and engageing on-demand webinar content covering a range of helpful topics such as; customer stories, metrics, best practices and business guidance to help answer these questions and more:
- How to gain control of spend blind spots, suppliers activity and contracts renewal – when we still struggle with messy data, broken across systems?
- What are the target savings benchmarks to aim for and how to find enough opportunities to confidently hit our savings goals?
- Can I get my team out of data fixing and report crunching tasks, so they find more time to focus on decisions, relationships and value creation?
- How can we better align procurement, finance and all up company’s priorities, to drive strategic impact and move the business forward?
Data Gathering, Cleansing, and Categorization – Download Now
Suplari Customer Procore Technologies Offers Principles to Evolving Procurement Presentation – Watch On-Demand
Suplari For an Even Better Workday – Watch On-Demand
Digital Transformation of Procurement – Best Practices from GIA (Gemological Institute of America) – Watch On Demand
Case Examples
Customers from large Fortune 500 to mid-size enterprises have worked with our dedicated success team to get up and running quickly – from rehabilitating their fragmented data to capturing cost savings. With Suplari, category managers, buyers, auditors, financial analysts and anyone with budget responsibility become catalysts of value creation in the spend-accountable enterprise.
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