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Plain answers on procurement
What moves cost, what makes it stay out, and where it usually leaks. Written by people who do the work, for CFOs and procurement leaders.
Press release Bang & Partners and Ignite partner to take Nordic companies from spend insight to realised savings Bang & Partners and Ignite have entered a partnership to take Nordic corporates and private equity-backed companies from spend insight to realised savings. Strategic sourcing What is strategic sourcing? What a sourcing event delivers: lower cost, better cost, working capital and less risk. The five approaches, which levers each reaches, and when a tender is wrong. PE & M&A Procurement in private equity value creation How procurement creates EBITDA across the PE deal cycle, why savings vanish before exit, and what a Nordic mid-market sponsor should expect. Spend analysis What spend analysis is actually for Why spend transparency is the precondition for procurement, the four use cases and what data each needs, and a step-by-step method. Category management What is category management? Category management explained: what counts as a category, the three lever families, and the mandate it needs to work. A Nordic procurement view. Supplier management What is supplier relationship management (SRM)? SRM is two disciplines in one name: compliance run to the requirement, and joint value with a few suppliers. How to set it up, run it and measure it.