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Will there be a recession? How spend management improves agility in the face of uncertainty.

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In addition to time savings, the visibility and control that a spend management system gives are required to reduce unnecessary, unplanned, or rogue spending. Spend management provides the levers of control needed to be responsive. How spend management improves agility in the face of uncertainty.

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Barclaycard On Everyday Spend Management And The Digital Shift

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Such systems may have gained popularity during the pandemic, yet according to Maria Parpou , Barclaycard ’s chief product officer, these innovations are poised to outlast the public health crisis that made them necessary. Parpou said she believes that digital spend management tools have the potential to become long-lasting.

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Plugging Expense Leaks With Spend Management Solutions

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When it comes to solutions, the latest Workforce Spend Playbook , a collaboration between PYMNTS and Bento for Business , is a compilation of the best spend management approaches currently available. Weddings and events are another sector experimenting with card-based spend management efforts.

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Changing The Conversation: From Spend Management To Margin Improvement

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The rise of the gig economy and the popularity of remote work are among the factors that are laying bare the need for better spend management systems and technology. The immediate goal is to move such spend management systems for field technicians away from their reliance on cash and checks.

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SMB Spend Management Revs Up For A New Decade

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Payments and cash flow can be the difference between life and death for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), This also applies to expense and spend management, which have a massive impact on cash flow. Of course, challenges abound when it comes to deployment of such expense and spend management systems.

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Newly Funded Airbase Consolidates Spend Management

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Airbase, a spend management company looking to consolidate a range of expense management processes for organizations, has announced new funding for its technology. In an interview with the publication, Founder and CEO Thejo Kote described the firm as “the first all-in-one spend management system.”

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

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Traditionally, this meant largely unmanaged spending since companies were never sure how much was put on cards. As a result, they lacked real-time control over that spend. There are different definitions of spend under management. Classify and communicate the scope of unmanaged spend.