The capital spend blind spot in manufacturing

A plant engineer needs a new CNC cell and calls a vendor they trust. The purchase order shows up in the ERP weeks later, after the supplier is already chosen.

Kyle Zarambo, Managing Director of Enterprise Transformation at Zip, explains why capital spend is the largest category in manufacturing and the one procurement sees least. Using data from Zip's State of AI in Spend survey of more than 1,000 leaders, the guide covers:

• Why engineering, operations, finance, and legal each define "approved" differently
• Five moves that bring procurement in before the vendor is picked
• How an orchestration layer works with SAP and Oracle instead of replacing them
• How to roll out one category and one facility at a time