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100 Day Procurement Plan (For Finance Leaders)

Deliver immediate savings while building a scalable process that doesn't require a dedicated team

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For finance leaders who wear the procurement hat:

Your procurement responsibilities represent a direct path to controlling costs and gaining full visibility across business spend.

Michael Shields, VP of Procurement at Tropic, outlines a simplified 4-step checklist to achieve immediate savings and build a better procurement process that will scale efficiently–without needing a dedicated team.

  • Establish lightweight visibility to create a list of to do's
  • Uncover solutions that fit your teams' needs better
  • Use benchmark data to support spend decisions
  • Implement a simple, easy to use V1 procurement policy for others to follow

For finance leaders who wear the procurement hat:

Your procurement responsibilities represent a direct path to controlling costs and gaining full visibility across business spend.

Michael Shields, VP of Procurement at Tropic, outlines a simplified 4-step checklist to achieve immediate savings and build a better procurement process that will scale efficiently–without needing a dedicated team.

  • Establish lightweight visibility to create a list of to do's
  • Uncover solutions that fit your teams' needs better
  • Use benchmark data to support spend decisions
  • Implement a simple, easy to use V1 procurement policy for others to follow
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For finance leaders who wear the procurement hat:

Your procurement responsibilities represent a direct path to controlling costs and gaining full visibility across business spend.

Michael Shields, VP of Procurement at Tropic, outlines a simplified 4-step checklist to achieve immediate savings and build a better procurement process that will scale efficiently–without needing a dedicated team.

  • Establish lightweight visibility to create a list of to do's
  • Uncover solutions that fit your teams' needs better
  • Use benchmark data to support spend decisions
  • Implement a simple, easy to use V1 procurement policy for others to follow

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Companies are spending millions on growth software, but without intelligent spend management, they’re bleeding cash through inefficient processes. Prioritizing spend management delivers benefits across the entire organization, not just in finance. Yet, many businesses are quick to invest in sales and marketing tools while neglecting spend control—and that discrepancy is costing them. This report shows how modern spend management delivers greater ROI and helps you build the case for necessary resources.

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99% of finance execs say spend management boosts efficiency.

Without it, you’re wasting time on manual tasks that could, and should, be automated.

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