Short reads on the regulation, technology and practice that procurement, finance and supply chain teams are dealing with now.
Almost half of procurement teams have piloted AI and very few run it at scale. The gap is rarely the model. It is the data, the process and the ownership around it.
The UAE mandate begins for large businesses on 1 January 2027 and Oman follows that April. Buyers will need to receive structured invoices through an accredited provider, not PDFs by email.
Paying a micro or small supplier late now defers the buyer's tax deduction. The fix sits upstream, in how suppliers are classified at onboarding and what terms go into the purchase order.
The EU's carbon border charge entered its definitive period in January 2026. Importers without verified figures from their suppliers fall back on conservative default values, and early evidence shows lower-emission steel producers holding their EU sales.
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