tail spend management

Tail spend management in 2026: clean the data before you deploy AI

Last Update: July 9, 2026by Divyesh Wani

Most procurement teams discover the same thing the moment their first AI tool touches tail spend: it falls apart. Not because the algorithm is weak, but because tail-spend management is, at its core, a data problem the AI was never given a chance to solve. Tail spend is the long list of low-value, high-volume purchases,...

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Procurement trends 2026: 5 shifts that reshaped the function and what to fix first

Last Update: July 13, 2026by Divyesh Wani

If you run procurement, 2025 quietly rewrote what “good” looks like. Annual supplier reviews stopped being enough. AI pilots stalled the moment they hit untidy spend. Big-bang software rollouts lost the room to faster, smaller wins. And the board stopped asking only about savings. None of these were isolated trends. Underneath each one sits the...

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The catalog tax: how poor catalog data quality slows growth

Last Update: July 16, 2026by Divyesh Wani

Most procurement leaders treat the product catalog as operational plumbing, something a category manager maintains rather than a steering-committee concern. That instinct is expensive. Poor catalog data quality does not just slow the procurement team. It taxes the entire business, and the bill keeps growing the longer it sits. When buyers cannot find what they...

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