The Spend Culture Blog

See how expense management software reduces rework, improves approvals, and gives finance cleaner data for budgeting, forecasting, and spend control.

Procurement intelligence is the insight procurement teams use to make better buying decisions before money is committed. It connects upstream signals such as requests, … What is Procurement Intelligence and How Can It Benefit Your Business?

We’re big fans of lifelong learning, especially in procurement, where the day-to-day can change quickly. Even experienced teams run into new challenges as the … Best Procurement Books (2026): 5 Picks for Purchasing & Supply Chain Pros

A modern procurement process walkthrough and what’s changing in 2026 around intake, controls, and exception-driven analytics that help prevent stalled approvals and invoice exceptions.

Most AP teams track volume, cycle time, and cost per invoice—but those numbers don’t explain payment reliability, supplier experience, or risk. This guide breaks down the four APQC-backed accounts payable KPIs, the benchmarks behind them, and how to use them to improve performance without creating new exposure elsewhere in the process.

Now’s the time to re-evaluate your spend management tools. This 2025 guide compares leading software platforms, features, and ROI drivers—plus a free vendor checklist.

Invoice approvals and purchase approvals solve different problems. One verifies a bill is correct and ready to pay. The other authorizes spend before you commit. Here’s how finance teams use both together, and how to tell when the lines are getting blurred.

Managing payables and receivables is easier when you run both off two dependable lists: the next payment run and the AR aging. Here’s a practical weekly rhythm for keeping invoices moving, follow-ups focused, and timing clear.

A practical guide to accounts payable—what it is, how it works, and how to improve it with clear best practices and the KPIs AP teams track.

Accounts payable work happens before the ERP records the transaction. This guide breaks down how invoices move from intake to posting, what information needs to carry through, and the most common ways AP connects to an ERP in practice.

ERP projects don’t usually fail on go-live day. The real test is whether purchasing and accounts payable hold up once the project team steps away. This guide breaks down why ERP implementations fall short, the warning signs to watch for, and what a clean end-to-end process actually looks like when you expect the ERP to cover purchasing and AP.

Mobile spend management helps finance and procurement teams speed up approvals, capture purchase requests on the go, and keep spending compliant—without slowing down purchasing.