Controlling tail spend

10th November 2014

While emphasis on the core purchasing categories that have the potential to make a strategic impact is to be expected, care should be taken not to neglect the spot buys, one-off purchases and maverick spending that are to be found in nearly every organisation.

Individually these sundry purchases may seem inconsequential from a financial perspective. Yet, if firms took the time to analyse their total off-contract spend they may quickly come to form a different impression.

Off-contract spend, or tail spend as it is known throughout industry, accounts for approximately 20% of total procurement expenditure in the average firm. Reliable estimates suggest that anywhere up to 20% of tail spend is waste. To put this in monetary terms, a firm with a total procurement budget of €10 million is possibly losing in the region of €400,000 through inefficient tail spend purchasing. No wonder tail spend is becoming the new front in reducing costs and streamlining the procurement function.

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