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Making AI Pay Off in Finance
At a recent executive roundtable hosted by The Hackett Group® in London, senior finance executives from a cross-section of industries…
With Orchestration it’s What’s on the Inside That Counts
While working with buy-side clients who are making procurement tech-selection decisions, most of the inquiries we receive are about the…
How Procurement Analytics Needs to Work – From Visibility to Orientation
Procurement analytics has reached a level of maturity that would have been difficult to imagine even a few years ago.…
Supplier Management as a Continuous Signal
Supplier management exposes the same design trade-off as earlier execution layers: platforms still treat suppliers as static records even when…
Payment Execution and Cash Discipline – From Paying Correctly to Paying
Payment execution is often treated as the mechanical conclusion of procure-to-pay (P2P). Once an invoice is approved and posted, payment…
Invoice Processing Maturity – From Automation Rates to Exception Economics
Organizations track touchless processing rates, straight-through processing percentages, cycle times and cost per invoice to gauge progress. These metrics are…
AI Agents and a Real-Life Business Use Case
Procurement has often been considered ahead of the curve in testing and implementing digital solutions to streamline operations, enforce compliance…
Intake and Guided Buying – From Structured Entry to Intent Capture
Well-executed intake converts intent into the correct execution path with minimal user effort. Poor intake forces users to understand and…
Catalogs as an Execution Layer – From Static Content to Operational Leverage
Catalogs are often treated as a front-end convenience feature in procure-to-pay (P2P), discussed primarily in terms of user experience, item…
What ‘Good’ Looks Like in Modern Procure-to-Pay Execution – New Series
Future-state visions, such as AI-native platforms, autonomous processes and intelligent agents, often dominate procure-to-pay (P2P) discussions. While those conversations have…
The Future 5 Procurement Provider Start-Ups for 2025–2026
Alongside the annual release of the 50 to Know, 50 to Watch and Hall of Fame procurement provider lists, our…
From Watch to Know 2025-2026 – How Graphite Connect Made the Transition
Each year, some of the solution providers named on the 50 To Watch list (i.e., relatively new providers to the…