What is a Category Management Dashboard

A Category Management Dashboard, is a data-driven management information process, that supports Category Management and provides real time sourcing information on the number suppliers, spend in period, type of spend and spend purchasing patterns. Dashboards that inform the category manager by monitoring spend, assessing performance and taking corrective sourcing actions to deliver business commitments.

Category Management Dashboards, provide real time information, help shape policy and strategy, provide progress on strategic and tactical sourcing decisions. At its core category management is the management of spend groups aligned by supplier, types of goods and services, the aim of the category manager is to put in place sourcing contracts and policies that provide the company with vetted, approved or preferred supplier lists.

Category Management Dashboards, provide a 360 view for that category, normally focused in two areas, preferred suppliers with agreed contracts in place and the review of maverick or long tail supplier information. To create a functional Category Dashboard for procurement, the following spend analysis process is used.

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What Do Spend Analytics Consultants Do?

Spend Analytics Consultants, provide a mix of analytical and management consulting skills, that provide spend visibility, advisory, strategic sourcing with Opportunity Analysis, Cost Saving identification, and Delivery.

Consultants provide management with independent advice relating to strategy, structure, management, or operations.

It may include the identification of options with recommendations, assistance with the implementation. Consultants are split into many multiple levels of subcategories and may be used to fill gaps in capacity, knowledge, and experience.

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What is Automated Spend Analysis?

Automated Spend Analysis, is the process of systematically, extracting, consolidating, aggregating, transforming, and sharing company spend data, that provides regular updates and insights, that inform the appropriate sourcing decisions. Automatic Spend analysis software is a collection of tasks or sub-processes that have been automated to provide spend visibility, automatically organized in a specific workflow that captures spend data, that is analysed, classified and shared it with business stakeholders.

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What is Procurement Spend Analysis?

Spend analysis is the process of gathering, cleansing, aggregating, categorising, and transforming company spend data, that provide procurement, with the insights that drive value, innovation, efficiency, effective sourcing with risk mitigation. Analysis that gives procurement the foundation and data support, to make faster, better, informed decisions, that are aligned with the company & procurement objectives.

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What is Spend Data Classification?

Spend Classification is the process of grouping spend data for similar goods or services, assigning them to predefined categories using a Taxonomy document. A hierarchal taxonomy or framework, that spans many major purchasing sectors with multiple sub-categories, that provide procurement managers with clarity, spend visibility, and purpose.

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Chart of Accounts : Spend Analysis

Chart of Accounts is normally held by the finance team, in the form of an indexed document or guide. Chart of accounts provide a list of General Ledger codes that form the basis of all the transactions taken within the company, for spend analysis, accounts payable information is used.

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What is Spend Analytics?

Spend Analysis provides sourcing teams with insights using historical spend data, supporting strategic and tactical sourcing decisions, aligned with Procurement (KPI’s). Spend analysis is an example of how sourcing metrics and analytics are used to improve sourcing, requisitions, purchase orders of goods, and services vital to the organisation.

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What is Spend Analysis ABC?

Supplier ABC Analysis or Spend Analysis ABC is the foundation or cornerstone in the development of an effective business and sourcing strategy, providing procurement insights and actions that deliver a powerful and competitive sourcing strategy.

Long end tail spend is the process of reviewing the spend that makes up 20% of the total spend and using automated spend analytics software ABC can be performed at source.

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Spend Analytics Dashboard?

Spend Analytics Dashboards are data visualization tools that display the current status of the company spend metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs). Spend Analytics Dashboards are the most efficient way to track multiple data sources, a spend analysis dashboards are a management information tool that visually tracks, analyses, and displays key performance indicator metrics.

On the surface, the dashboard is a collection of charts, graphs, and tables that provide a 360 view of procurement spend, behind the scenes, a full assessment of each data source is conducted, to aid in the creation of supplier spend analysis, opportunity assessment, and sourcing cost savings.

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How to Conduct Data Preparation Spend Analysis? 8 Step framework

A solid foundation is critical to the success of creating a data-driven spend analysis culture. Data preparation spend analysis, involves extracting, transforming, organizing, verifying, essential data required to build procurement spend analytics reporting.

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