Gain control of spend and rationalize your supply base
With its high-volume, low-value transactions with nonstrategic suppliers, tail spend is fragmented, complex, and misses savings opportunities. Our tail-spend solutions help bring it under control by enhancing digital capabilities, optimizing buying channels, and running AI-supported managed services.
A procurement delivery model that manages tail spend by simplifying workflows and identifying savings opportunities.
Companies using our solutions saw up to
8%
annual savings on addressable tail spend
Fix rogue spending and poor visibility
Our tail-spend maturity assessment and transformation framework analyzes your unmanaged spend. We then build a comprehensive tail-spend program with a detailed execution model, buy-channel strategies, advanced technologies, and a change management plan, unlocking value across your organization.
Improve the procurement experience
For businesses with high tail-spend volume and dissatisfied users, we implement a user-focused buy desk team and automate, streamline, and simplify the purchasing process. We digitize operational execution with our tail-spend optimizer solution that uses AI to identify and execute tail-spend opportunities.
Bring more spend under management
Our sourcing and tail spend center of excellence helps your business implement tactical sourcing to reduce unmanaged spend. We identify quick sources of value from tail spend and execute a program to deliver significant savings at an accelerated rate.
Our tail-spend solutions in action
A global consumer goods brand was struggling with unmanaged indirect spend of about 30%.
We analyzed the spend and designed a cost-effective global procurement operating model, using our tail-spend optimizer tool and a range of technologies to help digitize and automate processes.
The result? We automated approximately 40% of purchase transactions, delivered annual savings of up to 8%, and rationalized the supplier base.
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