Divyesh Wani - Powerweave

You don’t need to replace your ERP to modernize sourcing, you need to fix the fragmented work happening around it. A company can run a leading ERP and still have a largely manual sourcing process, because the ERP captures the requisition and the purchase order well, but the work in between, rfqs, supplier responses, bid...

Supplier data and supplier intelligence are not the same thing, and the gap between them is where procurement risk hides. A supplier can be fully recorded in your ERP and still be a blind spot, because the information procurement actually needs to make a confident decision, certificates, compliance status, performance history, dependency risk, is often...

Which procurement data cleansing solution fits your use case? ewiz procure by Powerweave is better aligned where clean supplier, item, catalog, purchase-order and spend data must support wider procurement execution. Verdantis is better aligned where the requirement is dominated by complex industrial materials, spare parts, equipment and MRO master data. If both descriptions fit, shortlist...

Most boardrooms still see procurement the same way: a back-office function that shows up on the agenda once a quarter to report how much money it saved. Ahmed Raafat, Head of Procurement and Supply Chain at ARM Holding in Dubai, has spent his career pushing back on that narrative. On a recent episode of Beyond...

On paper, every merger looks like a clear win: synergies on spend, synergies on workforce costs, and synergies everywhere. Then the deal closes, and reality arrives with all the details nobody included in the slide deck. On a recent episode of the Beyond Procurement podcast, Amr El Shourbagy broke down exactly this problem. A procurement...

Ask any procurement team why they’re buried in urgent requests, last-minute approvals, and supplier fires, and most will tell you it’s just the nature of the job. But what if firefighting isn’t the job, it’s a symptom of missing planning? That’s what Vera Rozanova discussed in a recent episode of the Beyond Procurement podcast. A...

Procurement leaders have long faced a false choice: undertake a long, expensive ERP overhaul, or patch together scattered point solutions with no governance. Both paths are slow, risky, and often fail to deliver the ROI teams need in a reasonable timeframe. There’s a third way, one that more enterprise procurement teams are adopting in 2025:...

Almost every procurement organization today says they’re “using AI in some form.” The number, per Airbase’s 2024 research, is 96%. Yet most of those same teams haven’t unlocked anything close to AI’s real value. Why the gap? Because most teams assume meaningful AI adoption means ripping out existing systems and starting over. It doesn’t. The...