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IPCC’s Latest Warning Drives an Urgent Climate Call-to-Action—Join Us in Answering the Call
On August 5, 2021, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its 6th Assessment Report on Climate Change. There’s a good chance the report crossed your radar like […]

Scary Supplier Practices
Supplier-driven events that negatively impact your cost-savings efforts in indirect categories—with a spooky twist. [...]
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A New Security Contract is Not Enough: Changing Your Company’s Security Culture
Your security program is intended to protect your employees, facilities, property, data, operations, and business continuity. One component of that security program is your contracted relationship with your security vendor. […]

Expert Q&A: Why is Security Such a Maddening Expense?
We recently caught up with Bob Schreiner, Fine Tune’s Vice President of Security & Guard Services, on why security is such a challenging and maddening expense for procurement. Q: What makes […]

Uniform Rental Industry Alert: How a Uniform Rental Route Person Can Impact Your P&L
It’s 8am on Tuesday: time for the weekly uniform rental delivery at your Omaha facility. The cheery and personable uniform route representative, Rory, enters the plant clutching the newest copy […]

Optimize Your Pest Control Spend: Bridging the Gap Between Procurement and Quality
To effectively manage the pest control cost reduction category, you must find ways to bridge the gap between Procurement and Quality. If you are tasked with managing pest control contracts […]

Tales from the Field: a pest control off-contract spend example
If you are looking for quick wins and cost savings in your pest control expense management category, you must focus on off-contract and out-of-scope spend. The potential savings can be […]

Procurement Foundry Ask Me Anything with Fine Tune – ‘Cliff Notes’ Recap
Fine Tune CEO, Rich Ham, and Procurement Foundry President, Mike Cadieux, recently “chopped it up” (to steal a phrase from Mike) during an engaging Ask Me Anything session, “Tail Spend: […]

An Update on Fine Tune’s Sustainable Promise
Sustainability and circularity as they relate to procurement and the consumption of goods and services has, for urgent reasons, emerged as an increasingly critical issue facing corporations. At Fine Tune, […]

“Good Contract, Bad Deal” Explained
If you joined any of our recent online events or read some of our content this past year, you have heard us talk about a phenomenon we see all too […]

Technology Innovation and Investment: Requirements for Effective Expense Management
What differentiates you as an expense management consultancy? We hear this question often. Of course, we have industry experts with over one hundred years’ combined subject-matter experience and expertise in […]