Measure Procurement Operations to Identify Savings Leakage
Pyze measures how sourcing, contracting, supplier management and purchase operations are performed, and prices what can be taken out.
Engagement archetypes from Pyze deployments across procurement and shared services rather than a single named account.
Procurement organisations are measured on negotiated savings and run on a long tail of requisition handling, supplier queries, contract administration and compliance checking that have not been costed.
Common Findings in Procurement & Sourcing
Four patterns that recur across engagements, each shown with the measurement and the resulting change.
We have a catalogue and people still buy off it.
SimplifyOff-catalogue buying concentrates in a small number of categories and requesters, and the reason is usually friction rather than preference.
The friction is measured and removed where it drives leakage, which recovers more than a policy reminder.
Requisition handling absorbs the operations team.
AgentifyMost requisitions follow a deterministic path and a minority need judgement. Both are handled the same way.
The deterministic path is handled without a person and the exceptions arrive already triaged.
Supplier queries arrive by email and are answered from three systems.
AgentifyThe answer exists in the record and is being assembled by a person for each query.
Queries answered from the record, with genuine disputes escalated already evidenced.
Contract compliance is checked at renewal and not before.
AutomateThe evidence needed to check it continuously already exists in the transaction record.
Compliance monitored continuously instead of at renewal, after leakage has occurred.
Opportunity Register
A sample register, sorted by the lever that resolves each opportunity. In an engagement, each line carries measured hours, a named owner and the evidence it was derived from.
Systems typically instrumented
Capture covers browser-delivered and thick-client applications, including virtualized estates, with no change to how anyone works.
Roles Involved
Instrumentation is configured per application rather than per person, so the population in scope is set during scoping and is not a deployment constraint.
How an Engagement Runs
Baseline, blueprint, transform, prove
The same four stages apply in every sector. The fourth stage repeats the baseline measurement, which makes the engagement an ongoing operating capability rather than a one-time report.
Baseline
What the work costs today, measured across every person and application.
Blueprint
Procedures, application rules and execution evidence, read as one target state.
Transform
Where each of the five levers applies, priced and owned.
Prove
The after state measured against the baseline, using the same method.
Frequently Asked Questions
Most of our leakage is behavioural. Can measurement help with that?
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Start with a measured baseline
Six weeks from instrumentation to a priced opportunity register, and the baseline stays in place so later quarters are measured rather than re-estimated.