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Top Priorities for CPOs in 2025

Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) Software to Transform Procurement

Complex Project Sourcing: Tactics to Reduce Risk and Drive Success

Procurement vs Purchasing: Their Roles in Modern Supply Chains

Understanding Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) in Business Decisions

Supplier Relationship Management in Public Sector Procurement

What is Public Sector Procurement?

Aggregating Demand: How Public Sector Entities Are Saving Costs

Leveraging Procurement to Achieve Broader Policy Goals

Strategic Sourcing for Better Value in Public Sector Contracts

Vendor and Contract Lifecycle Management (VCLM) for Procurement

Vision, Strategy, Objectives, and Roadmap in Procurement

The Power of Should-Cost Modelling in Procurement

The Power of Procurement Analytics: A Guide to Smarter Decision-Making

Reverse Auctions: A Key Sourcing Tool for Procurement Success

Supplier vs. Vendor: Do You Know the Difference?

The Ultimate Guide to Creating an Effective Procurement Intake Form

What Is Procurement Administration

What Is Process Orchestration Software?

Intake-to-Pay: The Solution to Traditional Procurement Challenges

The True Power of Process Orchestration for Procurement

Why Co-Innovation in Procurement Can Give Teams a Competitive Edge

Explaining SAP Process Orchestration

Intake and Orchestration Solutions: A Guide

What Is Procurement Orchestration?

Why Orchestration Software Is Key to Scalable Procurement Solutions

What is Orchestration in Software?

Procurement Orchestration Explained: Streamlining Your Workflow

A Step-by-Step Approach to Implementing a Procurement Intake Solution

How Intake and Orchestration Improve Efficiency in Procurement

How to Implement a Procurement Intake Tool for Seamless Operations

Procurement Intake Solutions for Modern Businesses

Common Challenges in Procurement Intake and How to Overcome Them

Mastering Procurement Orchestration: A Complete Guide

Intake and Orchestration Best Practices for Seamless Operations

Why a Procurement Intake Process is Essential for Your Business

What is Intake-to-Procure?

How to Build A Digital Strategy For Procurement

What’s the Best Knowledge Management System for Procurement?

How to Do Digital Procurement: A Step-by-Step Guide

How Many Sourcing Tools Should You Have?

Why the CIO-CPO Relationship Is So Important

How to Know if Your Procurement is Truly Digital

Will Category Management Ever Become Mainstream?

What Does Modern Procurement Architecture Look Like?

How to Successfully Deploy Procurement Solutions

Why Do Digital Initiatives Fail

How to Successfully Implement Digital Procurement in Your Business

Are You In The Next Generation of CPOs?

Best Practices for Field Ticketing in Oil & Gas

How To Create a Service Entry Sheet for a Network on SAP S/4HANA

Where To Start Your Digital Literacy Journey

How to Accept a Service Entry Sheet on SAP

Best Practices for Managing Supply Chain Disruptions

How To Monitor Services with SAP Service Entry

Planned and Unplanned Services in Service Entry Sheets

How to Check a Service Entry Sheet in SAP

How Procurement Teams Can Drive Cost Savings

Why Procurement Should Do Value Creation Rather Than Budget Control

Procurement in Mining Best Practices

Preparedness of Utility Procurement to Confront Market Challenges

The Ultimate Guide to Efficient Procurement in SAP

The Ultimate Guide to Contract Manufacturing

What Are Tier 1 Suppliers?

Understanding AI for Data Integration

What is Lead Time In Supply Chain Management?

What Is An SAP Clean Core Strategy?

8 Ways to Strengthen Your Supplier Relationships

How Technology Improves Procurement Efficiency And Transparency

How You Can Protect Your Reputation Working With Suppliers

A Comprehensive Guide to Spend Cubes

How to Save Money With Spend Insights and Analytics in SAP

Are you meeting today's purchase order management best practices?

Navigating SAP Procurement Challenges with Automatic PO Confirmations

How Companies Are Using AI For Procurement

What is Business Spend Management?

Benefits of Category Management to Elevate Performance

What Is Clean Core?

What Is The Role of Sourcing in Procurement?

Understanding The Procurement Maturity Model

A Step-By-Step Guide to Accounts Payable Workflows

Navigating the Digital Procurement Landscape for Mid-Market in 2024

Unveiling the Power of Customer-Centric Procurement in the Age of AI

Why You Should Stop Using Email for POs, Invoices and Confirmations

The Pitfalls Of A Two-Year Transformation in Procurement

Energy Executive Shares 6 Of His Top Tips For Making Rapid Change

Everyone Needs A Coach, Even Procurement Professionals

What's The Difference Between Intake Management and Guided Buying?

The Future of Procurement Is Being Human

Multiple Purchase Order Types for Minor Variations

How To Start The Digital Procurement Journey

Top 6 Portals That Work with SAP Would Help to Clone for Field Tickets

RPA Is Not A Hammer

Why Cheques In Procurement Are Obsolete

Why Making Multiple Entries For The Same Vendor Is Costing You

What Does The Crystal Ball Say About 2030 Tech?

Why Not Using Stock Transport Orders Is A Big Mistake

9 Of The Craziest Things We See Over and Over Again in SAP Procurement

Build a Release Strategy with Workflow and Fiori for PO Approvals

Are Hidden Costs of P2P Solutions Killing Your Business Case?

How To Guarantee an Optimized Intake Management Process in Procurement

Transaction Fees: Understanding and Navigating the Costs

What Are the Different Supplier Fees in SAP Procurement?

How Design Thinking Unlocks Innovative and Economical Solutions

How to Achieve Adoption of Digital Procurement Tools

The Standard vs. Custom Mentality Is Old School

Navigating Change Management Through User Experience in Procurement

How To Improve Negotiation in Procurement

Why Is Procurement Always one of the last areas companies automate?

The Real Secret Sauce in Successful Procurement Software Deployment

Unveiling the Power of Clean Core in Procurement

How to Address Lead Times That Are a Little Off or a Bit Too Generous

The Importance of Adopted and Consistent Processes Across Suppliers

How To Lower Procurement Spend By Shifting from Busy to Strategic Work

How Can Businesses Keep Track of Their Deliveries and Orders?

How to Properly Evaluate a Vendor Portal

Unlocking the Power of ESG Reporting

ITK Is Nearing End of Support - What's Next?

The Ultimate Guide to Vendor Onboarding: Best Practices and Strategies

What is SAP Business Network Commerce Automation?

Usability Testing vs UAT

Why Would Suppliers Want to Join a New Supplier Portal?

How Do I Communicate That I Have a New Supplier Portal?

Design Thinking First Approach Creates Better User-Experience

The Top Procure-to-Pay Vendor Portal Options for Small Businesses

How ConvergentIS and SAP Have Put a Focus on Sustainability

The Role of Procurement in Decarbonization

Implementation Challenges in a Vendor Portal Deployment

Key Metrics to Track in Sustainability

How to Mark Your Emails Urgent Urgent

How to Build a Business Case For a P2P Portal

What's on the Radar for SAP Insider: Our Top Picks

The Top 10 SAP Add-Ins Your Company Needs to Implement Today

What Is Co-Innovation in Procurement Optimization?

Designing for Accessibility – The Impact of Inclusive Design

15 Key Features to Look for in a Procure-to-Pay Vendor Portal

Top 6 Vendor Portals That Work With SAP

Why Update Service Entry Sheets on Mobile

What Does a Great Vendor Onboarding Process Look Like?

The Pros and Cons of Self-Onboarding for Vendors

The Pros and Cons of Different Invoice Submission Methods

Sustainability Criteria to Evaluate Technology Providers

What is a Vendor Portal?

How to Incorporate a Supplier Consolidation Strategy For Lower Pricing

Cost-per-Transaction: Primary Indicator of Procurement Efficiency

How to Guarantee a 3-Way Match Every Time

How To Accelerate the Requisition-to-Service PO Process

Catalogue-Based Buying Tech Speeds Up Requisition-to-PO Process

How to Create a Consumer-Grade Procurement Process

How to Reach Excellence in Procurement Operations?

How To Use A Guided Approach For Purchase Requisition Compliance

What Are the Strategies to Reduce the Cost Per Purchase Order?

The Area Your Procurement Team Should Be Cutting Costs

What is a Supplier Portal?

Accelerating Custom Code Analysis Using SAP BTP ABAP Environment

The Importance of Supply Chain Risk Management Strategies in Business

How to Improve Communication in Supply Chain

5 Questions to Ask Before Deploying SAP Asset Manager for SAP ERP

Reducing the Risk of Supply Chain Disruption

Why Managing Services Spend Is Key to Gaining a Competitive Advantage

Why You Should Care About Design Thinking

Work Zone For SAP And Its Role in Procurement

The Importance of Customer Returns Management for Enterprises

What Will Procurement Look Like in 2022 And Beyond?

What We Learned From the Museum of Failure

What is The Explore Phase in Design Thinking?

What is SLSA list for the Government of Canada?

What is SAP UX Strategy: SAP Fiori Side Chat

SAP Fiori's Relative Positioning to SAP Screen Personas Explained

What is SAP BTP and its 4 Pillars?

What is Financial Consolidation in SAP?

What is ERS - Evaluated receipt settlement

What Happens in The Delivery Phase in Design Thinking?

5 Challenges of Supply Chain Management for Manufacturers

VPN Solutions: Working From Home During COVID-19

User Stories: Why User Perspectives are Essential to User Experiences

Understanding SAP & Its Versions

This Is Why ConvergentIS Builds SAP Fiori Apps

The Ultimate Guide to On Time Reporting in SAP

The Ultimate Guide to Design Thinking

The Sustainable Supply Chain: Profitable Business Strategy?

Improving Efficiency With The Just-in-Time Manufacturing Process

The Difference Between Data and Information

Talking to Your End Users Is Never a Waste of Time

From Strategic to Supplier Relationship Management

Tackling the Most Common Procurement Challenges Facing Enterprises

SuperTile: From Fiori Launchpad to Interactive Portal

Stripe Sizing on SLES for S/4HANA

Strategies for Creating an Inclusive Workplace

Starting a New Project: The Value of Digging Deep Early

SOW Services Procurement: Advice for Accurate Management

Smart Design for Every Device

Should My Business Deploy SAP Work Manager or SAP Asset Manager?

Selecting the Right SAP Fiori Partner

A Demo of Our Out of the Box Purchase Requisition Application

SAP User Experience: Making Small Customizations to Improve

SAP S/4 HANA for Oil and Gas Industry

SAP Recognizes AppHaus Partner ConvergentIS For Virtual Initiatives

SAP Fiori Applications vs. Third-Party Software Solutions

SAP Enterprise Portal End of Life and What It Means for Your Business