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Leading analyst IDC recognizes innovation in procurement solutions.

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For decades, the many steps and stakeholders in large enterprise purchasing meant procurement teams had to rely on heavyweight, expensive solutions, while mid-market companies either had to adopt one of those overly cumbersome solutions or throw some ad-hoc procedures together to try to control spend. What is intake management?

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Spend under management: The procurement KPI you should be tracking at any stage.

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At Airbase, I’m the controller of a 300-person tech company without a dedicated procurement professional, so the responsibility to ensure that the procurement function is being fulfilled (policy compliance and vendor management) falls to me. As a result, they lacked real-time control over that spend.