Uncontrolled spending is leaving organisations exposed to excess cost, risk and fraud.
Organisations are losing billions in annual profits due to the inability to organise and analyse spend data and implement best practices to capture these lost savings. Complex spend management rules and standards are difficult to enforce, and often there is limited involvement of the necessary stakeholders to make it happen.
PROACTIS advises organisations to take action. To establish a clear strategy for spend compliance that ensures all organisation-wide purchases are in line with corporate policies, established budgets and negotiated supplier agreements to avoid costly and uncontrolled off-contract purchases.
Simon Dadswell, EVP Group Marketing at PROACTIS, said: “Organisations should be taking note of where cost savings are not fully being realised and putting in place compliance management programs to force adherence to spend guidelines. After all, improved spend compliance translates directly to the bottom line by reducing operating cost and increasing profitability.”
Spend management requires a comprehensive compliance process that helps organisations to obtain better visibility and control of spend; to determine the appropriate structure and time to enforce compliance; to strengthen processes and establish best practices to support controls; and to involve all ‘proper’ stakeholders at all key stages.