Periodic Table
Periodic Table of

Procurement Analytics

  • Fundamentals
  • High Value
  • Noble Pursuits
1
Spend Under Management
2
Savings Delivery
3
Spend Analytics
4
Cost Avoidance
5
Budget Management
6
PPV Reporting
7
Diversity Spend
8
Sourcing Event Analytics
9
Contract Analytics
10
Order Analytics
11
Req to Order cycle time
12
Supplier Landscape
13
Invoice Analytics
14
Geographic Exposure
15
Cost of Transaction processing
16
Continuity of Supply
17
Sustainable spending
18
Single/sole source spend
19
Tail Spend Management
20
Sourcing Technology
21
Verse Suppliers
22
Sourcing cycle time
23
Supplier Engagement
24
Financial Commitments
25
Contract Compliance
26
Contracts Technology
27
Contract Utilization
28
Contracting Cycle Time
29
Supplier Performance
30
Supplier Risk Management
31
Supplier OB cycle time
32
Duplicate Suppliers
33
Supplier Fragmentation
34
Emergency Purchases
35
Vendor Compliance
36
One Time Vendor
37
Price Compliance
38
Spot buy Spend
39
Catalog Utilization
40
Lead Time Management
41
Change Order Management
42
Delivery Tracking
43
Receiving and Returns
44
After the fact PO
45
PO without contracts
46
Non-PO (Purchase Order) Invoices
47
3-way matching exceptions
48
Help desk ticket analytics
49
Late Payments
50
Working Capital Management
51
eInvoicing adoption
52
Unpaid invoices
53
Invoicing cycle time
54
Procurement ROI
55
Process Compliance
56
Team Effectiveness & Efficiency
57
Supplier enablement
58
Supplier profile
59
Item compliance
60
Procurement Policy Compliance
61
Contract policy compliance
62
Category strategy management
63
Stakeholder Engagement
64
Item Price forecasting
65
Supplier hierarchy
66
Preferred Supplier utilization
67
Buying Channel Compliance
68
Sourcing wave plan management
69
Obligation Management
70
Sustainable suppliers
71
Catalog Expansion Opportunities
72
Invoice fraud detection
73
Procurement Value Delivery
74
Sourcing Channel Effectiveness
75
Contract Risk Analysis
76
New Supplier Introduction
77
Supplier Quality
78
Maverick Invoicing
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