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Price Benchmarking in Procurement: How to Know If Your Pricing Is Actually Competitive

Your team delivers consistent savings, spend analytics is live, data is categorized, and category st..

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Price Benchmarking in Procurement: How to Know If Your Pricing Is Actually Competitive

Your team delivers consistent savings, spend analytics is live, data is categorized, and category st...

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Why Procurement Teams Can't Get a Reliable View of Spend And How to Fix the Foundation

Most procurement data problems share a common root: spend is captured across disconnected systems, c...

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2026 Infrastructure & Utilities Procurement: Benchmarks, KPIs & AI Readiness

Infrastructure & Utilities procurement is entering 2026 under materially different conditions fr...

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Chemicals & Biotechnology Procurement KPIs: A Benchmark Analysis

Chemicals & Biotechnology procurement teams enter 2026 with continued raw-material volatility, e...

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Automotive and Manufacturing Procurement Benchmarks: An Industry Outlook for 2026

Automotive and industrial manufacturers enter 2026 with procurement under pressure from multiple dir...

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Services & Retail Procurement in 2026: Industry Benchmarks and KPIs

In Services and Retail, small procurement improvements show up fast in the numbers—margins, service ...

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FMCG Procurement: Benchmarks and KPIs for 2026

Procurement teams in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry sit in a tight spot. Cost pressu...

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Healthcare Procurement Industry Benchmarks and KPIs for 2026

Healthcare and pharma procurement teams enter 2026 with rising spend, volatile supply markets, and h...

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Agentic AI in Procurement: Transforming Decision-Making at Scale

In the Sievo webinar titled "Driving Procurement Decision Orchestration: How Agentic AI is Changing ...

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Embracing Agentic AI in Procurement: Bridging the Data-to-Action Gap

By Varvara Kharitonova and Marius Ciobanu. Special thanks to Heta Pirttijärvi. Agentic AI is making ...

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The pitfalls of in-house procurement analytics tools

In the fast-paced world of procurement, the allure of DIY analytics solutions like Excel, PowerBI, o...

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Why faster time-to-value matters in procurement analytics

Procurement teams need actionable insights to make fast, informed decisions. Relying on general-purp...

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Optimizing procurement performance: strategies for success in 2024

In the rapidly evolving world of procurement, Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) face an array of cha...

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5 Ways to Elevate Procurement Analytics with User Adoption and Training

In a hectic procurement landscape, data and analytics tools are crucial for making future-proof deci...

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5 Ways GenAI is Changing Procurement

Traditionally, procurement has been dominated by structured data, such as purchase orders and invoic...

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ChatGPT for Procurement: LLM use cases for analytics

There is much hype around ChatGPT, and it’s well deserved. Analytics platforms—including Sievo—are e...

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Optimizing M&A Spend Management: Challenges, Strategies, and Opportunities

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) can be complex, involving a myriad of considerations and potentia...

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Before spend analysis: the data cleansing and enrichment process

Organizations analyze procurement spend data to reduce costs, increase efficiency, and improve suppl...

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How Spend Analytics Improves the Procure-to-Pay (P2P) Process: Maverick Spend, Supplier KPIs and Payment Optimization

Integrated spend analytics across the procure-to-pay (P2P) cycle consolidates fragmented procurement...

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The strategic sourcing process fueled by data

Strategic sourcing has a vital role to play in supply chain management and ensuring profitable busin...

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Total cost of ownership (TCO) of procurement software

When it comes to procurement analytics, the question of whether to build it yourself or buy it from ...

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7 Benefits of Procurement Analytics

Procurement analytics uses quantitative and analytical methods to derive actionable insights from pr...

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The challenge of bad procurement data quality

Spend analysis aims at creating a fact-based understanding of where a company spends its money: what...

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