In this session, you will learn how to identify and group unstructured data to better leverage your tail spend yielding actionable insights that can provide savings, risk avoidance and a better rationalized supplier database. Using algorithms and automated processes, we will share how to analyze tail spend and get to a better place. Tail spend can present several risks to the organization. Our approach will help Procurement and the various risk assessment teams better understand opportunities around low dollar value transactions, which generally equate to 20% of your total spend and 80% of your supplier base.
- Techniques and strategies to cleanse and normalize tail spend, yielding savings
- How to identify risks associated with low dollar purchases
- The impacts of poor, unstructured purchase data on the organization
Contributors: Fairmarkit, VSP Global
Categories: 2018 Spring - Washington DC, Summit Presentations
SRC Type: Realization, Sourcing