Spend management, is a process of comprehensively managing, optimizing, and controlling the money spent by organizations. It is the contemporary way of managing supplier relationships and identifying money spent on purchases. Spend management encompasses of procurement, invoicing, outsourcing, and supply chain management.

Enterprises have larger routine transactions which require a lot of time and effort. Millions of financial processes become a challenge for organizations.

Well-organized spend management comes really supportive in managing financial worries in the following ways.

• Real-time tracking: Real-time tracking of expenses becomes convenient and more effective with spend management tools.
• Transparency: Better visibility of all the cash flows, by which every accessible person can see accurate numbers anytime.
• More knowledge: Reports generated through spend management tools help in taking more data-driven decisions. Companies are in a better position to take pricing and production decisions for their products. Knowledge can be shared with other departments giving them better-negotiating power.
• Time: Time involved in long calculations and approval processes makes productivity slow. Spend management can help you in reducing that time and effort. It optimizes all payment-related processes and invoice management and can actually make a detailed analysis of the money that goes in and out.

Spend management is all about saving than spending. If you are planning to have the system installed for your company then one very important point to consider is having your legacy data uploaded to the system to make it possible for the software to generate more meaningful reports using comparative numbers from the past.