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Achieve Cost Leadership: How US Top Performers Use an Agentic Strategy to Slash SG&A Costs
Selling, general and administrative (SG&A) costs for U.S. enterprises have surged to 14.3% of revenue – the highest in five…
Master Cost Leadership Now: Learn from Europe’s Gen AI Leaders
Selling, general and administrative expenses (SG&A) costs have skyrocketed to 11.5% of revenue, the highest since 2020, with just 18%…
From Risk to Readiness: The Executive Playbook for Scaling AI in Procurement
Only a small share of procurement teams are realizing the promise of AI, yet leaders like Micron and McCormick are…
E-Procurement Solutions
An e-procurement solution automates, guides and approves the purchase and receipt of products and services through an electronic interface. These systems…
Source-to-Pay Solutions
Source-to-pay (S2P) solutions are end-to-end solution suites that span spend/supply analysis, sourcing, contract management, supplier management and transactional procure-to-pay (P2P) to manage…
Sourcing Solutions
E-Sourcing emerged as a term in the 1990s as Freemarket and others developed technical solutions to enable organizations to negotiate…
Intake and Orchestration Solutions
Intake solutions aim to provide a user-friendly, fit-for-purpose data collection process to route, communicate and execute procurement requests by the…
Sourcing (for direct) Solutions
Direct material sourcing solutions are a subset of the broader sourcing category. They share similarities with generic sourcing solutions, specifically the ability…
Procure-to-Pay Solutions
Procure-to-pay (P2P) solutions are advanced software systems designed to streamline and automate the entire procurement process. They make operations more…
Solution Intelligence Programs
Too many providers. Too many claims. Too little evidence. Solution Intelligence gives enterprise leaders independent, data-backed insight into which solutions…
Applied Intelligence Programs for Executives
AI is accelerating decisions and increasing the cost of getting them wrong. Applied Intelligence helps leadership teams cut through complexity,…
Vision 2030 for Enabling Functions: Unlocking Value from Transformation and AI Programs
Are your organizations unlocking value from transformation and AI programs? Watch this replay to discover the latest trends, insights and…
Achieve Cost Leadership: How US Top Performers Use an Agentic Strategy to Slash SG&A Costs
Selling, general and administrative (SG&A) costs for U.S. enterprises have surged to 14.3% of revenue – the highest in five…
Digital World Class® Matrix: 2025 Accounts Payable Provider Perspective – Summary Report
The Hackett Group’s 2025 Accounts Payable Digital World Class® Matrix reveals the AP platforms delivering measurable impact in automation, cycle…
Digital World Class® Matrix: 2025 Accounts Payable Provider Perspective – Full Report
Gain the full intelligence available in the 2025 Digital World Class® Matrix: Accounts Payable Provider Perspective – available for purchase.…