{"id":1232,"date":"2020-11-26T16:07:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T16:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/suplos.com\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2025-07-09T21:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T02:10:06","slug":"procurement-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suplos.com\/en\/supply-chain-analytics\/procurement-analytics\/","title":{"rendered":"5 ways in which Procurement Analytics delivers real value"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Pricing metrics<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To understand if the organization is paying different prices for a similar product or service across its business units and geographies. This is a common problem because <strong>business units\/geographies often do not share data and best practices<\/strong>. The analysis can be performed at the following levels:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Price variation for a SKU<\/strong>where the same SKU can be purchased in different price variations from different suppliers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Price variation by business unit \/ geography<\/strong>where the same SKU can be purchased at different price variations within different divisions and geographies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Spending \/ price development<\/strong>to assess whether an increase in spend for a SKU\/category is resulting in a reduction in unit cost.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Financial metrics<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To understand how to <strong>optimize working capital by using payment terms<\/strong> as a key lever. Another important element is to control overspending by comparing the budget or purchase order value with actual invoicing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Some analyses that can provide insights into this are:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Visibility and optimization of payment terms<\/strong> to free up working capital by comparing categories\/geographies with external and internal benchmarks.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Incoterms<\/strong> can be analyzed to identify opportunities to transform to profitable.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Invoice processing costs<\/strong> should be kept to a minimum and analyzed using a number of transactions per supplier and the average invoice value.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The quotation\/purchase order and invoicing<\/strong> must be synchronized to determine the difference between quotes\/purchase order and actual invoices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Compliance metrics<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It allows to understand the variations of the defined process and the agreed KPIs. Generally, these cannot be completely avoided, but they must be controlled, given that <strong>the materialization of risks always comes at a higher price<\/strong>. Ideal metrics to explore include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Spending from non-approved and non-preferred suppliers.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Maverick Expense<\/strong> as a percentage of total spending.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Expenses without a contract and without a purchase order.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Fraud detection<\/strong> by analyzing factors including expenditures close to approval limits and large expenditures without purchase orders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>4. Supplier base metrics<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It helps to understand the <strong>performance of the existing supplier base and to identify opportunities<\/strong> to consolidate further, using, for example, more global contracts to secure better pricing. Procurement teams should consider the following analyses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Supplier performance metrics<\/strong> to measure actual performance against the SLAs and KPIs agreed in the contract.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Accumulation of supplier base<\/strong>to understand which geography\/division has a high supplier base built up over the years, compared to recorded spend.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Leverage product\/service offerings from existing suppliers<\/strong> to cover multiple categories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>5 CPO Metrics<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To understand the overall sourcing performance and efficiency of the Procurement team at the CPO or leadership team level:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Acquisition cost per supplier<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Acquisition cost as % of revenues<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>% expense under administration<\/strong> (Spend Under Management)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>% suppliers under management<\/strong> (Suppliers Under Managment)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>% single source categories \/ materials<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. M\u00e9tricas de precios Para entender si la organizaci\u00f3n est\u00e1 pagando precios diferentes por un producto o servicio similar en sus unidades de negocio y geograf\u00edas. Este es un problema com\u00fan ya que las unidades de negocio\/ geograf\u00edas a menudo no comparten datos y mejores pr\u00e1cticas. El an\u00e1lisis se puede realizar en los siguientes niveles: [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-supply-chain-analytics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>5 formas de entregar valor a trav\u00e9s de Procurement Analytics<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Conoce las distintas m\u00e9tricas que se aplican mediante Procurement Analytics para brindar valor.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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