Purchasing

Containing total spend
Frequently, when PURCHASING solicits total spend data for its Top 100, people ask: "Total spend for the company? Or total spend for purchasing? For a small, but growing, cadre of companies, the two numbers are virtually the same. For many more, the gap is closing by the day. Some call it enterprise spend control.

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