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Ken Male delivers a Tech Take:
Optimizing Vendor Spend via AI & Machine Learning

at SAMs Europe + IT Procurement & Sourcing Summit

IT Procurement

CXO Nexus partners with Ingram Micro to deliver Cost Optimization solutions.

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Nexus Automation Engine

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Client Outcomes

Identify Redundant Purchasing to Reduce Spend.

Software costs, especially SaaS, can grow at an extraordinary rate as companies invest in new technologies that can be easily implemented. Business Intelligence (BI) tools are a textbook example. Strategic sourcing opportunities are wasted by IT, Finance and Procurement organizations not having a centralized view of spend at the product level and by the Cost Center/ Department making the purchase.

What to do when a vendor is breached.

When a high profile cyber breach like FireEye is breaking news, being able to quickly identify spend with a breached third party is critical to prepare your response. It’s difficult to know your exposure if you can’t identify spend with a breached supplier – especially when the products are purchased through a reseller.

Year-end purchases?

2021 budgets are based on 2020 purchasing assumptions. Check with your business partners on deals that must close by year-end that are not in 2021 approved projects. Missing on a year-end purchase that rolls over in to 2021 may adversely impact the 2021 expense and capital budgets of the business. This includes items that automatically renew that you may want to re-negotiate, including maintenance contracts. Due to Covid-19, suppliers are more receptive to review existing discounts.

Tech Spend in T&E Expenses InCight Insider

Tech Spend in T&E Expenses

This month in the InCight Insider we feature an example of how IT, Finance and Procurement leadership identified a wide variety of IT spend by Business Unit (BU) in their SAP Concur T&E system by deploying CIO InCight™, the automated source of truth for all Technology Vendor Spend. The blue arrows point to BU’s purchasing technology directly, not in collaboration with the IT organization. (Note we highlight 3 anonymized BU’s below. T&E IT spend was happening in several others as well.)

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The InCight Insider is our monthly deep dive into the savings opportunities and spend data trends uncovered by customers. A new use case every month will be delivered to your inbox, that illustrates one of the many functions of CIO InCight.