What Exactly Is in the Tail Spend?
At a headline level, I think most procurement folks are now familiar with the concept of tail spend: the low-value spend items that are non-core but still essential to the smooth operation of an organization.
The 4C Approach That Can Improve Your Spend Analysis
Spend analysis is the procurement strategy process of reviewing current and historical expenses. The aim of this strategy is to reduce costs, improve strategic procurement, and increase the efficiency of spending management. Spend analysis requires spending data processed into KPIs and...
How spend analysis services can improve procurement
The company’s procurement strategy must contain spend analysis. A robust and strong spend analysis is vital for successful procurement in the organization. A matter of concern here is whether the company gains maximum benefits as a result of its current...
Challenges organizations have to face while implementing Spend Analytics
Spend analytics should be a crucial part of any procurement strategy but implementing spend analytics in the strategy is not easy. It calls for a great deal of effort to make spend analytics a part of the organization. The economic...
How Serco Has Used Spend Data to Generate Business Value
Spend data is a gold mine of valuable information for improving the procurement process as well as driving enterprise-wide decision-making. FTSE 100 services provider Serco learned this first hand when it engaged Simfoni, a provider of spend analytics tools, to change...
What are the benefits of Spend Analytics for a company.
Spend Analytics is the study of the amount of money a company spends on products and services. Many companies spend a decent amount of money to ensure they provide their customers with the best possible product or service. However, the...
ROI, Today: Making the Near-Term Business Case for Spend Analytics
Most varieties of procurement software deliver some form of return on investment. Whether it’s an e-procurement system that consolidates process costs or a sourcing tool that optimizes supplier selection, successful vendors can always point to clear ways their solutions deliver...
Tail Spend Management Webinar
Hear from Simfoni client Jean-Pierre Pinsonneault, Vice President Global Indirect Procurement at Owens & Minor about how the Fortune 500 healthcare distributor has been successfully tackling tail spend.
Why a Marketplace Model is a Key Part of a Tail Spend Solution
For many procurement organizations, catalogs have become the default way to manage indirect spend. It’s easy to see why. Catalogs offer a simple way to manage recurring, low-value purchases. By grouping previously sourced categories and commonly requested items into a...
Simfoni’s ‘Virtuosi’ Analytics Recognized as a leader by Spend Matters
We are delighted that Spend Matters have recognized Virtuosi™ Analytics as a Leader in their latest assessment report on spend analytics. Spend Matters assesses solutions on two primary axes; an Analyst score derived from an in-depth technical review of the...