Practical guides for procurement and finance leads
Written for the people who actually run the work: what changes by sector, where the cost really sits, and which parts of the job can safely be handed to someone else. Every statistic here is traceable to a named source we have read.
- Aerospace Procurement
- IT Procurement
- Tail Spend
- Accounts Payable
- Operating Model
- Spend Analysis
- Master Data
- Manufacturing
- Healthcare
- Procure-to-Pay
What Makes Aerospace Procurement Different From Everything Else
Traceability, lead times measured in quarters and an AOG clock measured in hours make aerospace procurement its own discipline. Here is what genuinely changes — and which half of the work can be handed to someone else without touching an airworthiness decision.
AOG Procurement: Where the Expedite Money Actually Goes
Nobody argues about an AOG invoice while the aircraft is on the ground. The argument is worth having afterwards — and almost nobody has it.
IT Procurement: Owning the Renewal Calendar Before It Owns You
The expensive mistakes in IT procurement are almost never made at the negotiating table. They are made in the ninety days before it, by nobody.
SaaS Licence Optimisation: Finding the Seats Nobody Uses
A seat is bought once, by someone with a good reason, and paid for every year afterwards by nobody in particular.
Tail Spend: How to Get Control Without a Rationalisation Project
The problem with supplier rationalisation is not that it fails to save money. It is that it is a project, and projects end.
What Invoice Processing Actually Costs, and What Moves It
Two credible benchmarks put best-in-class invoice processing at under three dollars and everyone else at nearly thirteen. The gap is not technology.
In-House or Outsourced Procurement: How to Decide
Framing it as in-house versus outsourced guarantees a bad answer, because it forces one decision onto a dozen different activities.
Spend Classification: Building a Taxonomy a CFO Will Trust
The first spend analysis presentation usually dies in the same way: someone senior recognises one number as wrong, and every other number on the slide becomes suspect.
The Duplicate Vendor Problem, and How to Actually Fix It
Nobody creates a duplicate supplier on purpose. They create one because searching for the existing record took longer than typing a new one.
Indirect and MRO Spend: The Half of Manufacturing Procurement Nobody Owns
Direct materials are managed by people whose job title says so. Indirect and MRO are managed by a maintenance supervisor between breakdowns.
Non-Clinical Procurement in Healthcare: Where the Savings Are
Clinical preference items are contested, governed and slow to change. Purchased services are none of those things, which is exactly why nobody is working on them.
Procure-to-Pay Cycle Time: Where the Days Actually Go
The average invoice spends most of its life waiting, not being worked on. Almost every improvement programme optimises the working part.
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