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Five best practices to stop wasteful spending with better data visibility
| Best Practices, Expense Tips

Five Best Practices to Stop Wasteful Spending with Better Data Visibility

Stopping wasteful higher education spending sounds easy enough when controls are in place. The internal controls, such as policies addressing spend limits or prohibiting personal purchases, have a significant impact on the purchasing behavior of employees. But what if these controls are outdated, perhaps unverified, or worse, unknown? The outcome could leave the institution vulnerable […]

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The difference between spend data visibility and transparency in purchasing
| Best Practices, Expense Tips

The Difference Between Spend Data Visibility and Transparency in Purchasing

When discussing ways to improve your organization’s internal spend controls, it is helpful to take a holistic look at your spend program as a whole to identify areas for improvement. Often, we find that organizations can make significant progress just by getting a better hold of their spend data. The data is there, it’s just

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NAEP EPIC 2026
| Conference

NAEP EPIC Is Around the Corner!

We’re excited to be returning to the National Association of Educational Procurement (NAEP)’s Annual Conference in 2026. It’s been three years since NAEP rebranded the conference as NAEP EPIC. EPIC stands for Educational Procurement Innovation Conference. It’s a fitting name for the scale of useful, educational information that will be available. This year, the conference

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No luck needed: spotting green flags in your spend data
| Expense Tips, Policy Compliance

No Luck Needed: Spotting Green Flags in Your Spend Data

In the world of purchasing and procurement, especially as it pertains to corporate credit cards such as P-Cards and travel cards, we have a tendency to focus on the negative. Fraud. Misuse. Abuse. Maverick spend. Split transactions. Wasteful spending. It makes sense to spend a lot of time thinking about problems that could be plaguing

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