Thinking on margin, cost and commitment

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Pricing against moving costs: why margin leaks between three rooms

Sales/Commercial agrees the customer price. Procurement agrees the supplier cost, or the terms that determine how it will move. Finance approves the expected margin.

August 6, 2026

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Why most companies skip pre-commitment validation

A deal starts losing money long before finance flags it. Between signing and delivery, costs change, markets move and margins quietly erode because no one checks whether the deal still works. Here's why most companies validate after the fact, and how to move that check to before the signature.

July 3, 2026

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How to Maintain Predictable Margins Amid Cost Volatility: A Practical Guide for Manufacturers

Commodity prices, freight costs, energy rates, and tariffs continue to move unpredictably. Discover why manufacturers can lose margin even when a deal looks profitable on day one, and how organisations are identifying margin risks before they impact the P&L.

June 19, 2026

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From Data to Strategic Actions and Quick Outcomes: How AI Agents Are Empowering CPOs & CFOs

With AI agents, decisions and actions happen in hours, not weeks. They close the loop - turning insight into action, and action into quick, measurable outcomes.

August 6, 2025

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How AI Agents Are Transforming Spend Analysis in Procurement

We’ve helped procurement teams cut decision cycles by 5x and increase cost-efficiency 10x — unlocking millions in savings within days.

July 29, 2025

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How Data-Driven Procurement Teams Win — Even With Smaller Teams

We help procurement teams automatically clean, unify, enrich, and categorise their spend, supplier, and contract data — powered by our AI platform and network of agents. Because once your data is right, every decision that follows becomes sharper, faster, and delivers greater impact.

July 7, 2025

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Unlocking Hidden Insights in Contracts: What You Need to Know

Discover Spendkey, an AI-powered spend decisioning tool that goes beyond analytics to provide insights and actionable strategies for achieving cost efficiency and reducing risk.

November 18, 2024

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How to Quickly Cut Procurement Expenses: Harness the Power of Spend Analytics

Discover Spendkey, an AI-powered spend decisioning tool that goes beyond analytics to provide insights and actionable strategies for achieving cost efficiency and reducing risk.

August 2, 2024

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Mastering Spend Management: Jessica's Leap into AI-Driven Financial Insights

May 29, 2024

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Pharma Finance Transformation: Unleashing AI for Cost Efficiency and Fiscal Excellence

Spendkey's AI-powered spend strategy solution leverages data, market intelligence and machine learning to convert raw data and documents into insights and actionable recommendations, empowering finance leaders to drive significant savings, improve budgeting and forecasting accuracy, improve working capital and make optimal business decisions to steer the organisation's financial strategy with confidence.

February 7, 2024

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From Challenges to Triumph: How Emily Collins Transformed Procurement at Veritas Pharmaceuticals

Emily's journey of turning procurement costs into savings set a new standard within the pharmaceutical industry. Her strategic decision to embrace automated spend analytics had not only boosted Veritas's financial health but also inspired a paradigm shift in how businesses approached procurement.

October 31, 2023

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Finance Leaders: A New Approach to Cost Control and Fastest Growth

Finance leaders need a new approach to cost control and growth, one that is focused on data-driven insights delivering tangible benefits.

September 15, 2023

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Budgeting and Forecasting with Spend Analytics: How Finance Leaders Can Achieve Greater Accuracy

With Spend Analytics, finance leaders can achieve greater accuracy in their budgeting and forecasting processes, which can lead to improved financial performance for their organisations.

March 15, 2023

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Unlocking the Power of Spendkey Analytics: Why Every Finance Leader Needs It

Spend Analytics can be a strategic platform for CFOs and finance leaders that gives them real-time visibility and control over their spending.

May 15, 2023

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How can finance leaders improve working capital with spend analytics?

Spend analytics is a powerful tool that finance leaders can use to improve working capital and enhance the company's financial health.

March 15, 2023

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How can Spend Analytics help CIOs/CTOs manage technology investment and fast-track digital transformation?

Jane's success story has been recognised by her peers in the insurance and financial services sectors, and she often gets consulted by peers in her industry to share her experience and best practices. Jane's initiative has received recognition from various professional and industry bodies, and she has received several awards for her achievements.

November 23, 2022

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Spend Category Management: Why Your Business Needs It?

Spend category management is the process of classifying and grouping a company’s spend based on products, services, suppliers, departments, etc.

May 5, 2023

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One Easy Step To Improve Your Working Capital

Sue as a CFO understands the significance of improvements in working capital management and that it can generate more capital for her business,improve operational efficiency, increase profitability and potential growth.

June 14, 2022

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Activity-Based Costing Can Help Increase Your Profitability!

As part of the senior leadership team, you should know the cost drivers and the levers that can be leveraged for your business to be profitable.

June 14, 2022

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Record Breaking Business Performance: 5 Powerful Tips To Get Your Business Units Skyrocketing

We all want our business to do well, in fact, better than our competitors! Every business unit within your organisation has a key role to play in the success of your organisation.

June 14, 2022

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Growing your business with payment analytics and insights

Payment Analytics is the process of integrating and analysing payments data from different sources like bank transfers, credit cards, employee expenses

June 1, 2022

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What is maverick spend and how you can control it successfully?

An organisation that is not taking any action on their maverick spend will always lack the visibility of what your employees/business is spending and whom it is spending with to buy what products and services. Without this knowledge, organisations will be unable to risk assess the impact of this maverick spend.

January 24, 2022

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Spend Category Management & its Benefits in Procurement

Category Management helps to organise the procurement team resources and contributes towards economies of scale and enhanced supplier relationships whilst gaining an in-depth understanding of how each category contributes to risk management.

June 1, 2022

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How to write a business case for transformative spend analytics

There is no need to continue estimating and guessing – Spendkey can tell you how your organisation is spending 100% of its expenditure and provide actionable insights to help you make informed decisions.

January 20, 2022

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Five Spend Analysis Benefits Pharmaceutical Executives Should Know About

With Spendkey, pharmaceuticals can observe dependency on key suppliers by determining the level of dealings with them. The in-depth spend analysis which Spendkey provides helps pharmaceuticals to advance their risk management strategies.

January 20, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning in Procurement

AI in procurement has increased the speed at which data can be collected, analysed and utiliszed to create meaningful insights and make informed decisions

February 18, 2022

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Use of spend analytics to drive your organisations transformation

Before we go into the core topic of this article, it is important to ensure that we all have the same understanding of the meaning of spend analytics.

January 24, 2022

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