We're in the home stretch now... The spend under management (SUM) framework provides executives with a simple outcome-based model to drive the necessary changes in their organization to capitalize on the significant savings opportunities available to most organizations. The benefits of moving to best-in-class under the SUM framework include: Alignment of indirect spend objectives with core financial metrics  Defines and details actual spend at a granular level utilizing robust spend analytics Defines enterprise objectives by...

In our last post. we discussed adopting spend under management (SUM) and the first of five principles. Here are the other four: 2) Purchase through a formalized requisition to purchase order approval process. The purchasing processes of an organization should be governed by policies and procedures that are complete and enforced universally. Simply having them in place is a starting point but the key issue is enforcement. Are all the spend areas incorporated? Does my...