• Decentralized Procurement
• Low reliability of spend reports due to inaccurate and inconsistent spend classification
• Limited code set for assignment efficiency leading to minimized spend analysis value

Business Benefits:

• Company wide visibility into spend to identify sourcing synergies
• Supplier Rationalization
• Spend aggregation
• Consolidating volumes from many suppliers to fewer suppliers resulted in volume discounts
• Reducing number of suppliers reduced procurement functional cost