Achieving Spend Visibility: Benefits, Barriers and Best Practices

The benefits of spend visibility are numerous. Organizations with good visibility can more easily identify savings opportunities, increase enforcement of contract compliance, and better comply with regulatory and financial reporting requirements with a complete auditable record of their spend. From a savings perspective, these benefits often translate into 2%-12% reductions in spend…hundreds of millions of dollars for a large enterprise.

The barriers to achieving spend visibility are significant. Spend data is dispersed across multiple, incompatible systems. Data quality is poor or coded for financial reporting, without the information needed to drive procurement decisions. Further, data is often incomplete, lacking specific part or item attributes necessary to identify many savings opportunities.

This white paper explores the business benefits of and barriers to achieving spend visibility and then identifies best practices an organization should look for in a solution to improve its spend visibility.

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Achieving Spend Visibility: Benefits, Barriers and Best Practices