18 business prompts
Procurement and spend
Inspect purchasing and supplier spend.
A question to explore
Where does supplier spend or purchasing behavior need review?
A practical way to begin
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Normalize suppliers, units, currencies and purchasing periods. Separate recurring commitments, one-off purchases and contract assumptions before proposing savings.
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Procurement and spend
- Consolidate supplier spend across purchase exportsSupplier spend category tableAnalysis
- Build a vendor renewal planning AppVendor renewal planning AppApp
- Find purchases outside approved supplier listsOffcontract spend summaryAnalysis
- Compare prices paid for equivalent purchased itemsComparable unit price tableAnalysis
- Measure supplier concentration and dependencySupplier dependency mapAnalysis
- Find unused software subscriptions for reviewSoftware spend utilization tableAnalysis
- Model procurement savings under contract constraintsProcurement savings scenario tableAnalysis
- Extract vendor terms into a contract review tableContract term evidence tableAnalysis
- Forecast committed purchase spending by monthMonthly purchase commitment forecastAnalysis
- Find delays in the purchasing approval processPurchase approval cycle time tableAnalysis
- Explain category spend against procurement budgetsCategory budget variance bridgeAnalysis
- Build a supplier delivery and service scorecardSupplier service scorecard AppApp
- Prepare evidence for supplier price negotiationsSupplier negotiation evidence briefAnalysis
- Compare software license plans at renewalLicense renewal decision tableAnalysis
- Review purchases near approval thresholdsThreshold pattern exception tableAnalysis
- Explain a Google Cloud bill increaseReconciled service and SKU cost bridgeAnalysis
- Trace a cloud cost spike to resources and activityEvidence-linked resource cost investigationAnalysis
- Compare matched month-to-date cloud spendMatched-window service comparisonAnalysis
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