Shadow AI Spend Is Quietly Becoming Procurement's Biggest Blind Spot
For years, procurement software meant one thing, a system for raising purchase orders and routing approvals. That definition is breaking down fast, and it has nothing to do with procurement itself, it's about what companies are actually buying now. A midsized company today runs well over a hundred SaaS tools across departments, and sitting alongside that is a growing pile of AI subscriptions purchased outside any formal process. This is shadow AI spend, and it is quickly beco
Ibiso David-West
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When is the right time to open a software contract renewal
Most procurement teams think you can't really start negotiating until the renewal quote shows up, usually 60 to 90 days before the contract ends. That's the default assumption almost everywhere. The problem is your vendor started planning that quote about a year earlier. Enterprise software vendors build their fiscal year end and quota pressure into a twelve month campaign. They know your renewal date, your usage trends, and roughly what you'll pay before you've even opened t
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