How the work proceeds
How a spend review is run
The work is a sequence of files, judgements, and meetings. Nothing here is a product tour. It is the same path we follow for a municipal ledger or a private buying desk.
Four rooms the work passes through
Intake
We agree the legal entity, the months, and the export. You hear what we will not attempt. Files come to us, or we come to the filing room.
Classification
Supplier names are joined. A category tree is drafted from how people buy, then checked against a sample week with your officer in the room.
Mapping
Totals by category, supplier, and cost centre. Concentration. Off-contract lines. Gaps. No decoration that the numbers do not earn.
Briefing
Midpoint to kill a wrong assumption. Close with printed boards and a findings note. One round of written questions afterwards.
Artefacts you will see
The export is yours: invoices, purchase orders, credit notes. We do not scrape a portal on your behalf.
The category tree is a shared object. If “miscellaneous” is still a branch at the end, we have failed the classification week.
The supplier table shows joined names and the share of spend. Related companies appear only where your files or the public record support the link.
The boards are large printed maps for the briefing room. The findings note is short enough to read before a committee. The questions list is the last page: what the next budget, the next tender, or the next receiving-dock log should confront.
What we will not do in this sequence
We will not re-score a tender that has already been awarded. We will not present a savings figure as a promise. We will not keep a copy of your ledger after the retention period in the engagement letter.
When you are ready, choose the engagement or send a note with the months you want read.