Supply chains across enterprises are infested with supplier risks, savings leakage issues, and sourcing inefficiencies which often go undetected due to the lack of good visibility in to spending data. By blending spend data with the right market intelligence, organizations stand to extract the best value from their sourcing initiatives.
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Analyzing Spend: You Can’t Fight
What You Can’t See
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• 12 Trillion dollars is total spend
through global 2000 companies
last year
• Enterprises are losing over USD
260 Billion per year due to the
inability to organize and analyze
spend data1
• To date, only 40% of the
companies have good visibility on
their spending2
• 60% of the firms that analyze
spend still rely on paper and
spreadsheets3
You Can’t Fight What You Can’t See
1: Aberdeen Research: Best Practices in Spend Analysis : Cure for a Corporate Epidemic, 2004;
2: SAP / Procurement Leaders Survey 2011
3: Spend Analysis : Working too Hard for the Money , 2007
Eric and Greg both spoke to the importance of identifying corporate linkage, diversity status and total spend when working with their suppliers. These are just some of the categories that we’d recommend companies explore to get a clear, overall snapshot of supplier health. Companies must also take into consideration overall financial health, socio-political stability of the supplier’s location, and the health of tier-2 suppliers. Establishing a central repository of all supplier data gives companies the ability to see the entire supply chain at a glance. From my days managing supply chains for HP, I know that compiling all that information can be challenging – and worse, can lead to incorrect information being used to make decisions. As a best practice, it is always beneficial to employ some sort of third-party review of the data – that not only validates the quality of the data, but can uncover opportunities as well. At D&B we use the DUNS-Right system – every supplier/organization has a unique identifying number which allows us to identify parent and children companies, branches, violations, etc.
Fourth: “How can I get advance warning of a supplier disruption or change in the status quo?”Advance warning of supplier trouble can mean the difference between avoiding a disruption and coming out on top or scrambling to pick up the pieces. Your options for resolution are so much broader when you have the luxury of time.
And most importantly: “What can your company do to stay out ahead of the competition?” Having the right information, in the right place is the first step in staying ahead of the competition. It gives you the tools you need to do the proper analysis to make informed business decisions.
2001 – MetLife managed $400M worth of spend in the US with 70 buyers. Very little strategic activity, highly transactionalToday – MetLife manages over $2.5B in the US handled by 15 buyers, much more focus on the strategic activity. With recent acquisitions, looking to expand our Spend Management Program globally.How did we get here, and how do we get where we want to be…Reporting and Metrics team pulls in data from our domestic systems into a homegrown (Access) database. Reporting and Metrics team performs all the normalization of data, apply taxonomies, D&B searches on our critical suppliers. Current State Challenges Manually Maintained Access DatabaseHours spent updating and validating data, then producing reports on a monthly basisMinimal bandwidth to expand the reporting program (International)
2001 – MetLife managed $400M worth of spend in the US with 70 buyers. Very little strategic activity, highly transactionalToday – MetLife manages over $2.5B in the US handled by 15 buyers, much more focus on the strategic activity. With recent acquisitions, looking to expand our Spend Management Program globally.How did we get here, and how do we get where we want to be…Reporting and Metrics team pulls in data from our domestic systems into a homegrown (Access) database. Reporting and Metrics team performs all the normalization of data, apply taxonomies, D&B searches on our critical suppliers. Current State Challenges Manually Maintained Access DatabaseHours spent updating and validating data, then producing reports on a monthly basisMinimal bandwidth to expand the reporting program (International)
Notes: Other examples of quadrants are Strategic Importance & Supply Risk/Complexity, Profit Impact & Supply Risk/Criticality, Impact & Spend, Complexity of adding capacity & Supplier willingness to add capacity
Notes: Other examples of quadrants are Strategic Importance & Supply Risk/Complexity, Profit Impact & Supply Risk/Criticality, Impact & Spend, Complexity of adding capacity & Supplier willingness to add capacity