What's the Secret to Mastering Finance and Spend Management?
Finance and spend management are critical to maintaining organisational stability and competitiveness.
By tracking income and expenditure closely, businesses can allocate resources effectively and make informed decisions that balance short-term priorities with long-term objectives.
Strong spend management reduces unnecessary costs, safeguards compliance and builds stakeholder confidence. It also supports healthier cash flow, enabling investment in innovation and growth.
Far from being just back-office functions, finance and spend management serve as strategic levers that drive resilience, sustainability and profitability in a demanding business landscape.
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Leaders in spend management
A number of firms have established themselves as leaders in spend management.
One example is Coupa, which has transformed how organisations oversee their entire spend ecosystem using advanced AI. Central to its approach is a unique US$8tn community-driven dataset that fuels intelligent automation across the procurement lifecycle.
Coupa’s unified platform combines autonomous AI agents that adapt to individual business patterns with a global network of more than 10 million buyers and suppliers. Its industry-leading applications integrate seamlessly, enabling smooth workflows across organisations.
Instead of fragmented purchasing, Coupa creates fluid connections between companies and their customers, automating complex procurement decisions with accuracy and intelligence. Each transaction is optimised, and every relationship becomes an avenue for greater efficiency.
As a strategic partner, Coupa shifts procurement from a cost centre to a profit accelerator. AI-driven insights and automated processes unlock hidden value at every stage of the spend management journey, multiplying margins and driving growth.
SAP is another key player, offering procurement solutions that help businesses build resilience and extract value through smarter spending.
With SAP Ariba’s source-to-pay applications, companies can centralise spend data, apply advanced analytics and use automation and AI to strengthen category strategies and improve decision-making. These tools not only manage costs but also identify new supply sources and embed risk management throughout the supply chain.
Through the SAP Business Network, collaboration is enhanced as people, processes and data connect in the cloud.
By combining intelligence, agility and transparency, SAP empowers procurement teams to deliver strategic value in volatile markets.
The Finance and Spend Management Panel
On Day 2 of Procurement & Supply Chain LIVE London, the Finance & Spend Management Panel will kick-off from 12.40pm on the Supply Chain Stage.
With Navan’s innovative approach to travel, expense and spend management as a backdrop, the discussion will delve into best practices for improving operational efficiency, enhancing employee experience and gaining control over company-wide spending.
Attendees are set to gain actionable insights on how to unify fragmented systems, adopt agile finance operations and align financial controls with company growth objectives.
Tosin Oke, Senior Director EMEA at Navan, and Katrina Tretyakova, VP Global Procurement at Convatec, will lead the conversation, alongside one further panellist to be confirmed.
About Procurement and Supply Chain LIVE London 2025
Procurement & Supply Chain LIVE is returning to the Business Design Centre in London for its annual Global Summit on 23-24 September.
This unmissable event is aimed at facilitating knowledge sharing and connections among the world's procurement and supply chain leaders.
Those attending can enjoy inspiring keynotes, engaging panels and exclusive workshops covering a diverse range of topics, including supply chain transformation, procurement technology, sustainability and ESG, AI, finance, logistics and supplier relationship management.
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