What Makes Effective Finance and Spend Management?
Finance and spend management play a central role in keeping organisations stable and competitive.
By keeping a clear view of income and expenses, businesses can allocate resources wisely and make decisions that support both immediate needs and long-term goals.
Good spend management helps avoid unnecessary costs, ensures compliance and builds trust with stakeholders. At the same time, it strengthens cash flow and creates space for investment in innovation and growth.
Rather than being back-office functions, finance and spend management act as strategic drivers that support resilience, sustainability and profitability in a challenging business environment.
Join us for Procurement & Supply Chain LIVE London for the Finance and Spend Management panel, in association with Navan.
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Spend management specialists
Numerous firms have carved out a niche in the market to become respected specialists in spend management.
Among them is Coupa, which revolutionises how businesses manage their entire spend ecosystem through cutting-edge artificial intelligence. At its heart lies a truly unique US$8tn community-driven dataset that powers intelligent automation across the entire procurement lifecycle.
The unified platform seamlessly integrates autonomous AI agents that learn and adapt to each unique business pattern with an expansive network connecting more than 10 million buyers and suppliers worldwide. Industry-leading applications work in harmony to create seamless workflow integration across the entire organisation.
Gone are the days of fragmented buying processes: Coupa creates fluid connections between organisations and their customers whilst automating complex procurement decisions with precision and intelligence. Every transaction becomes an opportunity to optimise, every relationship a pathway to greater efficiency.
With Coupa as a strategic partner, margins don't improve, but multiply. AI-driven insights and automated processes unlock hidden value at every stage of the spend management journey, turning procurement from a cost centre into a profit accelerator.
Elsewhere, SAP’s procurement solutions are designed to help organisations build resilience and deliver value through smarter spending.
With SAP Ariba source-to-pay applications, businesses can centralise spend data and gain visibility through advanced analytics, while automation and AI support category strategies and informed decision-making.
These tools extend procurement’s impact beyond cost control by identifying new sources of supply and embedding risk reduction into supply chain processes.
Through the SAP Business Network, collaboration is strengthened as people, processes and data connect seamlessly in the cloud.
By uniting intelligence, agility and transparency, SAP enables procurement to deliver strategic value in uncertain markets.
The Finance and Spend Management Panel
Taking place 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.
Katrina Tretyakova, VP Global Procurement at Convatec, and Tosin Oke, Senior Director EMEA at Navan, 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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