
Building your data foundation: why entity resolution must come before AI in procurement
Most procurement data isn’t broken—it’s fragmented. Discover how entity resolution unites your supplier data, removes hidden costs, and makes AI actually work.
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Most procurement data isn’t broken—it’s fragmented. Discover how entity resolution unites your supplier data, removes hidden costs, and makes AI actually work.

When one supplier appears 20+ times across your systems, it’s not just messy data – it’s lost negotiating power, invisible overpayments, and procurement chaos. Before you can deploy AI in procurement, you need to fix this foundation.

For years, your AP team has been processing invoices and keeping suppliers happy: important work, but hardly strategic. But in 2025, the rules have changed.

Every CFO has asked the question: Where exactly is our money going? And across industries, from logistics and healthcare to manufacturing and insurance, the answer is often unclear.

Explore how Previse evaluates leading GenAI platforms to build AI-native infrastructure for finance. Learn why model flexibility matters, how platform choice impacts performance, and what it takes to future-proof intelligent procure-to-pay and payment workflows.

True P2P transformation takes more than AI agents. Discover why data quality, orchestration, and platform design are critical to scaling intelligent procurement and finance operations — and how to move beyond siloed automation towards cohesive, enterprise-grade workflows.

Finance, procurement, and treasury teams are sitting on mountains of data—but large language models (LLMs) now make it possible to unlock insights at scale. We explain how batch LLM inference can drive efficiency, improve compliance, and optimise supplier relationships—plus how OpenAI and Amazon Bedrock stack up for enterprise use.

Beneath the surface of B2B payment operations lies hidden complexity, inefficiency, and missed opportunity. This blog explores how AI is transforming supplier payments—from chaos to coordinated strategy—and why legacy systems are no longer good enough.

Despite the abundance of business data, basic questions like “What is this company’s credit score?” remain surprisingly difficult to answer. Disconnected systems, inconsistent naming, and poor search tools turn simple lookups into time-consuming detective work. This article explores why traditional tools fall short—and how solutions like SmartMatch are helping teams “join the dots” by resolving fragmented records with 98%+ precision. If you’re still manually reviewing supplier data, it’s time to rethink how identity is resolved.

It is almost a year since we launched Good Business Pays, so it’s time to celebrate some of the wins and successes of the movement.

You work hard to create business opportunities, but making the most of them takes a ready source of cash.

2021 has been yet another tough year for British businesses of all sizes. And it is SMEs who are impacted the worst, whilst larger companies fare better.

Liz Barclay’s appointment as Small Business Commissioner was the latest development in the UK’s longstanding and worsening payments crisis.

While this is a welcome step in the right direction, there is still a long way to go. A 30-day payment period is still 30 days too long for many.

Covid-19 disruptions and shutdowns propagate through supply chains, and massive but blunt interventions can’t reach those most in need of support.

For more than a decade large, firms have offered supply chain finance (SCF) to their suppliers, yet uptake by SMEs has remained limited