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Taming your Tail Spend
Tail Spend definition: 80% of suppliers accounting for 20% of overall spend across multiple categories in which purchasing is sporadic and goes unmanaged.
Also known as C-class purchases or spot purchases, Tail spend consumes precious time for your purchasing department because of the administrative management required. It is possible to save this time and optimize your resources by outsourcing it to BME.
Buy Made Easy provides a solution for outsourcing your tail spend.
Outsourcing
Outsource the administrative tasks of your Tail spend.
Tracking
100% digitized tracking tools for faster actions.
360° Vision
View your complete spend report on demand.
Proximity
A direct collaboration with local teams of buyers.
DISCOVER SPOT BUY OUTSOURCING (1mn)
PROCUREMENT OUTSOURCING
1. Tail spend outsourcing
BME offers an end-to-end procurement services managing all your ordering tasks. This includes:
- Supplier sourcing
- Order management
- Invoicing
- Supplier payment
- Dispute management
- Supplier relationship
From the expression of a need to the delivery of the products or services, BME takes in charge the entire procurement process and thus become one-stop vendor for the management of your tail spend purchases.
PROCUREMENT OPTIMISATION
2. Optimize your maverick spend
BME optimizes your direct and indirect purchases through process automation. Management of your purchases is centralized on a single Procure-to-Pay platform:
- Reduce the number of suppliers
- Negotiated prices
- Strictly enforce contracts negotiated with suppliers
BME rationalizes your spot buy to save your time and to increase your productivity.
PROCUREMENT PERFORMANCE
3. Track your Spot Buy performance
BME provides with a 100% digitized eProcurement solution to faster actions.
You will benefit from:
- Complete reports on your maverick expenses
- Calculation of savings generated
- Support for continuous improvement
- Training of your purchasing teams
We are committed to Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to bring 100% satisfaction to your teams and guarantee a service of excellence.
PROCUREMENT DIGITIZATION
4. 100% digital purchasing outsourcing
Sourcing Force is an integrated Source-to-Pay suite that allows to outsource your Spot Buy and automate your purchasing process. Sourcing Force has a dedicated module to the spot buy outsourcing:
- Centralize your Spot Buy in a single platform
- Manage your supplier catalogs
- Monitor your purchases with online dashboards
- Automate your expenses using artificial intelligence
- Control your purchasing budgets
Why outsource my Tail spend?
1 supplier
Avoid creating unnecessary supplier accounts. BME becomes your single point of contact for the management of your tail spend.
1 contract
No more multiple contracts with different suppliers. By using BME’s services, you will sign only one contract for all your purchases.
1 payment
One invoice per month for all your tail spend orders. No more multiple suppliers and invoices.
Save time by trusting the leader in spot purchasing outsourcing
10 years of expertise
Buy Made Easy is a specialist in tail-end spend management. We have developed a single-creditor model.
Say goodbye to redundant suppliers and replace the large group of suppliers with one supplier, Buy Made Easy.
Take control over your tail spend !
Outsource your tail spend now and
increase your company’s purchasing performance
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What is Tail spend?
Tail spend, also called spot buy, concerns all the products and services that companies need on a punctual and irregular basis to operate on a daily basis.
For example, during a snowstorm, this may involve purchasing snow removal salt, or when you are organizing a seminar, purchasing chairs, or even individual protective equipment (stocks of gloves, masks, etc.) in anticipation of an epidemic.
Most of the time, these unauthorized purchases are made outside the purchasing policy in place. This therefore runs counter to a TCO approach.
How is the cost of a paperless transaction estimated?
The digitization of the purchasing process concerns the steps of product selection, sending the order, processing invoices and finally paying them electronically:
– The purchase request and its validation are done directly in the digital solution (Punch-out for example). This eliminates the need for the buyer to manually create an order.
– The order is sent directly from the digital solution after hierarchical approval.
– Invoices are collected online via the Supplier Portal or via interfaces (EDI).
– Payment of supplier invoices is triggered automatically on the due date if everything is in order (amount, quantity, receipt, quality).
In this case, we are talking about sending orders electronically (EDI: electronic data interchange).
Thus, through this optimization of the purchasing process (without human interaction), the cost per transaction goes from an average estimate of 120 € to 26 €.
What do you think about counter orders?
When it comes to tail spend, the urgency criteria should be put into perspective or even discarded, as they are most of the time due to a lack of anticipation that can be solved by a respected purchasing strategy and an adapted digital solution. Counter purchases once again go against a TCO approach because they generate a lot of hidden costs.
Nevertheless, BME offers an emergency service that allows you to pay a counter supplier remotely and in real time. The respect of the deadlines of a construction site and the safety of your customers are our priorities.
Can you specify the evaluation of the average management cost of 1000 € per supplier?
– First, an initial cost of referencing the supplier: sourcing the supplier, analyzing the profile, retrieving the initial administrative information, even evaluating the financial risk.
– Then the cost of maintaining the supplier database. Purchasing departments evaluate the status of their suppliers annually (active, dormant, etc.). In addition, there is often the cost of the ERP itself and of external monitoring service providers.
– The cost of administrative management imposed by regulations (legal documentation, solvency, CSR, subcontracting). There are specialized companies that can help Purchasing Departments collect this information, but this generates an additional cost.
– Dispute management, concerning product returns and credit notes.
Can this approach of outsourcing spot purchases be applied to an SME?
The cost can be reduced, depending on the size of the company, its structural and/or organizational costs, or its sector of activity.
An SME specialized in the nuclear sector or another specific sector may have additional administrative costs by the simple fact of having to control the normative aspect of its obligations.
In any case, centralizing spot transactions on a single supplier generates better fluidity and sustainable savings.
What are the different types of purchase classification?
For example, the UNSPSC or “United Nations Standard Products and Services Code” is a nomenclature of more than twenty thousand categories proposed by the United Nations, with a hierarchical structure at four levels: “Segment”, “Family”, “Class” and “Product”. The hammers belong to the class of “forming tools” which belong to the family of “hand tools”, which in turn belong to the segment of “general tools and machinery”.
Which digital system would you recommend for supplier catalog management?
How do you calculate your own cost per transaction (TCO)?
I invite you to download our White Paper on this subject.
Doesn't the implementation of a punch-out tend to increase the number of orders?
Furthermore, the Sourcing Force solution integrates validation circuits and budgetary controls to avoid any abuse of consumption.
What is a TCO approach?
How come Buy Made Easy estimates the cost per traditional transaction at €120 when it is usually estimated between €150 and €250?
This remains an estimate, which may vary according to the organization/structure costs of each company.
Are you able to list any product at BME?
Depending on the type of products that are not referenced in our offer, we carry out a referencing on demand. For example, having been requested by several customers, we have recently referenced a new range of industrial products covering mechanical transmission elements (ball bearings, etc.).
We also take care of all types of non-catalog references such as services, seminars or manufacturing to plan.
What do you think about small purchases made by credit card on the Internet?
However, this solution is not satisfactory in many respects. Indeed, if you really want to optimize your spot purchasing, it is necessary to be able to analyze expenses by purchasing category (suppliers/products) and not in a global way.
The use of purchasing cards leads to an increase in the number of suppliers and goes against the rationalization of the supplier panel.
Users retain the administrative burden of managing expense reports and keeping receipts. Accounting must reprocess the transactions to assign them manually to cost centers.
The key word is "communication", do you have any predefined communication plans, tips for outsourcing spot purchases?
The purchasing departments of companies have much more influence with users than an external service provider. Thus, the external service provider will accompany them in order to raise awareness among users about bad practices, to eradicate unsuitable procedures (unauthorized purchases: counter, credit card, etc.) and then to promote the digital solution by highlighting the savings that can be made for the benefit of the company.
The trick is to communicate through internal newsletters, or well established formats in the company. These communications should include the conditions of the offer (discount), the possibilities for the end-users, the type of products concerned, explanations on what changes with respect to the habits.
The crucial point is to anticipate the resistance of employees to the change of suppliers, by explaining how this change occurs and why Buy Made Easy is the best answer.
Do you include the cost of installing an e-procurement solution in the estimate of digitalized transactions?
Sourcing Force offers advice and support you for the implementation of the punchout or hosted catalog. Except for specific development requests, the set-up costs are negligible on the transaction cost.
Does substituting several suppliers with a single one lead to giving this supplier the function of referencing (sourcing) and placing orders?
Regarding the ordering process, it remains centralized at BME in order to offer you a unique supplier account for all your spot purchases.
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