The Spend Intelligence AdvantageFrom Roundabout to Roadmap — creating a roadmap for the next $1M-$2M.
Twenty-seven questions. Seven pillars. Approximately 10 minutes. An honest, evidence-based read on where your greatest spend opportunities are sitting right now — and the single first action that will start turning them into value.
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- rating questions across seven pillars
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- open reflections to sharpen your thinking
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- your total Spend Intelligence Score
Seven pillars of Spend Intelligence.
Score yourself 1–5 across thirty-one statements grouped into seven pillars. We compute your band, surface the pillar holding you back the most, and hand you the single first action to start turning opportunity into value.
Spend Visibility & Prioritisation
You cannot prioritise what you cannot see
Visibility and prioritisation are one job, not two. Without a clear, categorised view of where money goes across your vital-few sourcing groups — not just your single largest — every downstream decision is guesswork.
Demand & Specification Discipline
Before you negotiate anything, are you buying the right thing?
This is usually where the biggest value sits, and where self-report diagnostics are weakest — most people have never measured it at all. Challenging demand and specification often beats challenging price.
Cost & Market Understanding
Price is the output of cost drivers, not the driver itself
Cost drivers sit both inside your total-cost model and outside it, in the shape of the market. Sourcing without a view of both is negotiating in the dark.
Supplier Relationship & Commercial Alignment
Do your contracts reward the outcome you actually want?
Not ‘do you have good suppliers?’ — do your commercial structures reward lower total cost, and do your key suppliers have a genuine reason to help you get there?
Process & Risk Resilience
Low-friction day to day, protected when it matters
Process and risk are grouped together deliberately — a process stakeholders bypass and a risk you haven't named tend to be the same underlying problem: nobody's checked.
Planning & Roadmap Execution
Does insight become a resourced, prioritised plan?
Everything above is diagnosis. This section tests whether it turns into a resourced, prioritised plan — or stays as separate insights nobody acts on.
Collaboration & Aggregation
Value you can't unlock alone
The seven pillars above all measure what happens inside your own four walls, or inside your bilateral relationship with a supplier. This pillar asks a different question: could you get a materially better outcome by combining volume, intelligence, or standards with someone outside that relationship — other sites, group purchasing organisations, consortia, supplier-led buyer boards, or industry peer networks? Organisations that use aggregated buying arrangements typically report 10–25% savings against categories bought independently.
No right or wrong answers — a candid, evidence-based view of where value is actually sitting in your portfolio today.
Your score reveals your highest-value pillar and gives you the single first action that unlocks momentum.
Twenty-seven ratings and six short reflections. Your results are private — visible only to you and the Practical Procurement team.
Ready to see where the value is sitting?
Approximately 10 minutes, seven pillars, one clear next action. Answer honestly based on your current reality, not where you would like to be.