Tail Spend Playbook
How to identify, measure, and manage tail spend: classification, supplier segmentation, and using a governed marketplace to bring the tail into a controlled channel.
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MIDAS benchmarks line-item prices against real market data and flags off-contract spend as it happens.
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Case study: Enterprise tail-spend
How one enterprise consolidated hundreds of ad-hoc suppliers into a single governed channel.
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Procurement Research and Practitioner Guides
Data-backed research and step-by-step guides for the procurement challenges practitioners actually face: fragmented supplier bases, informal purchasing culture, mixed digital maturity, and evolving compliance requirements. Grounded in Borong's deep experience across Malaysia and Southeast Asia, but written for any procurement team serious about improving how they buy.
Featured Research
Purchase Smarter: 3 Powerful Ways to Modernise Your Procurement Function
A Southeast Asia-specific procurement modernisation framework, built on enterprise data from the SEA market. Covers three sequenced steps for procurement reform: establishing a clear procurement policy, deploying the right eProcurement technology, and building real-time spend visibility and control.
It also covers the failure modes common in SEA enterprises: fragmented informal supplier networks, email-driven purchase workflows, maverick spending at scale, multi-currency and multi-entity complexity, ERP systems not built for indirect spend, and no real-time spend data for finance leadership.
Read the Whitepaper50%reduction in requisition-to-order costs via eProcurement
35%increase in spend under management with digital procurement
41%of maverick spend eliminated through automated approvals
Practical Procurement Guides
Step-by-step resources for specific procurement challenges: tail spend, punchout setup, ERP integration, supplier consolidation, and procurement KPIs. Each guide is written for practitioners, not consultants — the procurement manager setting up approval workflows for the first time, the IT owner connecting a B2B marketplace to an existing ERP, the CFO trying to understand what procurement KPIs to track, and the operations head trying to bring tail spend under control.
Punchout Setup Guide
A technical and commercial guide to setting up punchout connectivity between your ERP and the Borong Marketplace, covering cXML and OCI protocols, configuration, and testing.
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Integrating Borong with major ERP platforms including SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Dynamics 365, SQL Account, AutoCount, Xero, QuickBooks, Workday, and Sage.
Read the GuideSupplier Consolidation Playbook
How to reduce your active supplier count without disrupting operations: segmentation, consolidation criteria, and migrating spend to a smaller, higher-performing vendor base.
Read the PlaybookProcurement KPIs Guide
The 10 procurement KPIs that matter most, how to define and measure them, what good benchmarks look like, and how to build a monthly performance review.
Read the GuideWhat Good Procurement Research Looks Like
There is no shortage of procurement content, but most of it is written for Western markets with mature digital infrastructure, deep vendor bases and teams carrying dedicated analysts. Southeast Asia's reality is different.
Across Malaysia and SEA, procurement functions are newer and smaller, inside organisations where the function was informal until recently. Useful research meets those teams where they are, not where a Fortune 500 in the US or Europe is. That is our lens: what works for a mid-sized Malaysian manufacturer, a growing Singaporean logistics firm, or a GLC moving from manual to digital.
Each guide draws on Borong's direct work with procurement and finance teams across Malaysian and Southeast Asian enterprises, alongside published research from Aberdeen Research, the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS), the Hackett Group and Gartner, with external data and benchmarks cited. They exist to solve procurement problems, not to describe the Borong platform. Where Borong is a relevant solution the connection is noted, but each guide is meant to be useful whatever technology you are using or evaluating.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Is Borong's research available for free?
Yes. All published whitepapers, research reports, and guides are available as free downloads without registration.
How does Borong gather research data?
Research draws on platform transaction data (anonymised and aggregated), enterprise client engagement, published third-party research, and original surveys conducted by Borong. All sources are cited within each report.
Can I contribute data to Borong's research?
Enterprise clients who wish to contribute anonymised procurement data to support research initiatives can contact our team to discuss participation.
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