Tail-Spend Management

Eliminate fragmented spend and achieve savings
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Proactis has saved billions in tail spend managed for leading global enterprises. We use the latest sourcing tools and methodologies, category best practices, tactical sourcing desk, highly flexible catalogue platform, growing supplier database – a full range of tools, to provide a highly effective buying experience to users.
 
Our unrivalled category management expertise and proprietary tools can be custom-configured to your organisations existing processes. The result is a highly tailored solution for tackling one of your biggest sources of incremental savings available.

By addressing the tail-end of spend together, Procurement and Finance can deliver significant savings in terms of both reduced unit prices and process improvements – both of which free up money and valuable resources.
You can achieve:
Positive ROI and increased on-contract purchases
Positive ROI and increased on-contract purchases.


Reduction in maverick spend and transaction costs
Reduction in maverick spend and transaction costs.


Strengthening of procurement controls and standardisation of business processes
Strengthening of procurement controls and standardisation of business processes.


Automated processes across Source-to-Pay
Automated processes across Source-to-Pay.

Employees can find and buy
what they need


Procure-to-Pay (P2P) tools such as supplier catalogue and punch-out capabilities make it easy for employees to find and buy exactly what they need from the right supplier – even across hundreds of thousands of tail-end items.
Eployees can find and buy what they need

Category-specific sourcing


Category-specific sourcing tools such as contracts, rapid RFx, spend aggregation, global supplier database, supplier rationalisation, electronic marketplaces and consortium buying can be used to accelerate the execution of identified opportunities and deliver savings.
Category-specific sourcing

Online self-service solutions


Purchases below spend thresholds can be routed to online self-service eProcurement solutions, which employees can use to search for and buy indirect goods they need. Maverick buying can be further reduced by the use of online Catalogues, Punchouts, P-cards and improved compliance management.
Online self-service solutions

Electronic invoice capabilities


Electronic invoice capabilities to reduce the invoice capture and processing burden associated with tail-spend – a wide range of tools suitable for both low and high volume suppliers, suppliers with both modest and sophisticated technology capabilities, suppliers with whom you use PCards, energy suppliers, and more.
Electronic invoice capabilities
If you have not yet addressed the savings opportunities within tail-end spend because the number of suppliers and categories seem overwhelming as compared to the opportunity, we would like to talk with you.
Let our experts help you with your unique requirements.