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ANALYSE

Generate a comprehensive analysis of your spend on goods and services

The Observatory's ANALYSE functionality enables you to quickly and easily generate a more comprehensive analysis of your spend on goods and services than is possible from your internal systems alone.

Develop a procurement strategy that is realistic and achievable

ANALYSE will support the development of an evidence based procurement strategy that is realistic and achievable.

Identify opportunities to save money and improve process

A comprehensive analysis will make it much easier to identify opportunities to save money and improve process.

Prioritise where to focus resources

You can rank and prioritise where you focus scarce resources so that you can transform the way you procure goods and services.

Access the economic impact

Improve your ability to accurately assess the economic impact of procurement related decisions on the local and/or small businesses with whom you currently trade.

Create compelling reports for management quickly

Reduce the time and effort in creating compelling reports in response to questions from senior management.

Interrogate your spend data and gain insight with graphs, tables and charts

Use ANALYSE to interrogate your transformed spend data and generate the charts, graphs, tables and lists that deliver the data and insight you need to enable you to deliver savings, assess policy compliance and manage risk.

With ANALYSE you can quickly and easily visualise your spend:

  • Understanding your spend distribution

    Across the 500+ categories in which the public sector typically purchases goods and services.

    Top suppliers by category and how dependent they are on your trade with them.

    Categories where you have too many suppliers that might be candidates for rationalisation.

    Categories where you have too few suppliers that might be candidates for issuing an RFQ, RFP or ITT to increase competition.

    The competitors of your top suppliers that you spend money with.

    Those suppliers who are supplying goods and services to multiple departments.

  • Understanding your spend administration

    The suppliers who are relatively expensive to manage in administrative terms.

    The suppliers who send too many small invoices that might be candidates for invoice consolidation or moving spend onto a purchase card.

    The one-time suppliers you use where the cost of setting up and administering the supplier's payment costs is more than the goods procured.

    Your spend with newly created suppliers.

    Suppliers who may have been historically undermanaged as a result of focus on the top or well known suppliers.

  • Understand your economic impact

    The suppliers that are overly dependent on you for the bulk of their income.

    See what you spend locally and with suppliers who are SMEs.

    The categories in which you spend relatively more with local and/or small businesses.

    See how much and in which categories you spend locally, regionally or nationally.

    Your spend with the Third Sector.