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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 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 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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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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