➤ Never waste an opportunity, be it any sort of opportunity. And losing money is as wasted an opportunity as any. The opportunity to save money, and make more of it. It is a paradox that many businesses have to deal with on a timely basis. Some people automate this process, and spend amounts that can be used elsewhere. Unacceptable Lost Opportunity Cost, as it is otherwise known, are those costs that get in the way of establishing a prosperous business.
Automating an entire process, and adding it into the chain of processes with the rest, is something that takes years to bring value back to the table. So why waste money establishing an unnecessary process, when the end result can be achieved in a much easier fashion?
should never be greater than gain if a business is to prosper. That is the basic law of business.br>
➤ We at Chools, help you go about the process of doing Spend Analytics, and find better ways to save money, rather than spend more of it.br>
Here’s how.
A major Food and Beverages company is looking for opportunities to prevent additional spend.
Efficiently managing risk associated with additional spend and devising effective short term and medium term spend strategy. They needed someone to analyze their spend patterns.
The company was also looking for avenues to save on maverick spend and regulate their marketing spend depending on the requirements of their business.
Curtailing of maverick spend was the primary goal. All avenues for saving money were considered. Chools was able to help them identify spend patterns in the organization, and mitigate additional spend. An outsider’s perspective of the industry, and how the competitors were performing in this sphere, gave the company many valuable insights. Information from many paid industry databases, industry forums and interviews helped the company to arrive at a conclusion.
Key points that were addressed in this analysis include
✔ The current state of spend.
✔ An optimal short term/medium term spend strategy.
✔ The possibility of improving savings.
The client was able to aggregate data on their peers to compare their spend profile with. They maintained detailed spend records to keep track of maverick spend and non-compliant activity.
A food and beverages industry was introduced with a new set of challenges, and needed a fresh perspective to solve them. The technology that they used previously was stagnant, and was not able to keep up with their competition’s. The solution that was arrived upon previously was complex, and cumbersome. Earlier, a lot of time was wasted on figuring out and analyzing spend. Visibility was also low on key metrics.
The objective was to find a simple and intuitive solution. One that allowed managers to independently do their own spend analysis with the same set of numbers globally.
➤ The key metrics that were measured were
✔ Classification of Spend.
✔ Terms of Payment.
✔ Supplier Consolidation.
➤ A Spend analytics tool was used to do all of the above.
➤ What took the company hours, now took a matter of minutes. And was swiftly adopted throughout the organization.
Spend Accuracy saw a dramatic rate of improvement, both from a classification and supplier rationalization perspective. Improved spend visibility also meant that the company was able to consolidate suppliers with 10% improvement per year. An accuracy of over 90% in Spend classification was achieved. Cycle time for category managers was reduced from a matter of weeks, to a matter of minutes, vastly improving process efficiency.