Spend Snapshot · €2,500 · 1 week
You know there's leakage in your indirect spend. You don't know where, how much, or what to fix first.
Hiring a Big 4 audit costs €80k+ and takes four months. Hiring a CPO takes nine. Doing nothing costs more than both, every month it stays nothing.
The Spend Snapshot is the third option.
Deliverable
A board-ready 10-page PDF, your name on the cover, signed by an ex-Amazon procurement lead. Inside:
Top 10 categories, top 20 suppliers, supplier concentration map.
Auto-renewals, single-source dependencies, contract gaps, maverick spend.
Telecom, energy, IT, facilities, fleet, professional services. Market benchmark vs what I've actually negotiated at €600M scale. 3 quick wins (90-day) and 2 strategic plays (12-month).
Low, mid, high estimate, with the assumptions written out so your CFO can challenge them.
With or without me. Both paths are on the page.
That's it. No 80-page slide deck. No junior consultants. No fluff.
How it works
Before any commitment, a short call to understand your context, your indirect-spend perimeter, and confirm the Snapshot is the right format for you. If it isn't, I point you to the one that is. No engagement.
Work starts. We pick the deep-dive category. I send the data request: AP exports for the last 24 months, contracts for the chosen category, supplier master file. Send what you have, perfectly structured data isn't a prerequisite.
I consolidate and structure it. AI does the heavy lifting on category mapping and supplier deduplication, via a secured account with a signed DPA: your data trains no third-party model. I do the part it can't: knowing what to ask for, what's missing, where the money is hiding.
Spend cube built in flat Excel (auditable formulas, no black box). Deep-dive run. Opportunity sized. Drafted deliverable.
We walk through the findings. You ask the questions a CFO asks. I leave you with the PDF and a clear next step.
Scope
The Snapshot is not the full procurement audit. It's a focused, fast, honest first read designed to do one thing: prove the prize is real on one category, and tell you where the bigger prize lives.
If you want a full org and process diagnosis, all categories analysed in depth, a CSRD or sustainability assessment, or implementation support, that’s the Full Spend Audit (€10k, 4 weeks) or a Managed engagement. The Snapshot is the door to those, not a replacement.
Pricing rationale
Three reasons.
If the napkin opportunity is €500k+, and on €100M of indirect spend that’s the floor, the Snapshot pays for itself 200x over before lunch. Below most internal procurement thresholds. Above the price where you’d suspect amateur work.
No analysts, no juniors, no offshore. The brain on your spend is the same one that negotiated €600M of indirect categories at Amazon EMEA. AI does the tasks that should be commoditised. I do the part that isn’t.
Upgrade to the Full Spend Audit within 60 days and the Snapshot fee is credited 100% against the audit price. Cheap to buy. Obvious to upgrade.
Who this is for
You have €15M+ of indirect spend and no full-time procurement function, or a procurement team without category specialists.
If your company has a mature CPO with a senior team and a full category manager bench, you don't need this. You need a peer review, which is a different conversation.
Who's running it
10+ years in procurement. 6 years at Amazon EMEA: first catalogue strategy for Amazon Logistics, telecom MSA with Vodafone (25k+ lines, 30%+ savings), EU energy across 800+ buildings (€150M per year). Advanced Excel and spend-data structuring across multi-country, multi-ERP projects: €600M+ consolidated flat, in auditable formulas. French and English. Not a consultancy. Not a deck factory. One operator, one deliverable, one week.
FAQ
That's the norm. Most ETIs without a procurement function run on three ERPs and a folder of PDFs. I expect lightly structured data, cleanup is part of the job. If the data is particularly unstructured, the timeline can extend to 7 to 10 days, but in principle nothing is impossible.
On €100M+ indirect spend, "nothing" basically never happens. If it does, you walk away with a clean bill of health from someone who has personally negotiated €600M of comparable spend. That’s worth keeping in a drawer.
No. No supplier contact, no benchmarking call, no RFP. The Snapshot runs entirely on your internal data and my market knowledge.
The Snapshot fee is credited 100% against a Full Spend Audit booked within 60 days.
Mutual NDA at kickoff, standard terms. Your data stays in your environment except for the analysis files I work on. AI is used through a secured account with a signed DPA: no data is used to train third-party models, none is retained beyond the engagement.
The categories I have direct, deep negotiation experience in: telecom, IT, energy, facilities and utilities, fleet, professional services, MRO, marketing and agency spend. If you have something else in mind, ask on the kickoff and I'll tell you straight whether I'm the right brain for it.
Yes, recommended. CFO + finance controller, or DG + ops lead, works well.
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