Spend Management
Spend Management
Turn spend data into better procurement decisions. Atamis Spend Management gives procurement teams a clearer view of organisational spend, helping them identify opportunities, improve visibility and connect spend intelligence with the wider source-to-contract lifecycle.
See where your money goes. Bring spend data together for a clearer picture of organisational expenditure.
Consolidate and analyse spend across suppliers, categories, business areas and other dimensions to understand where money is being spent and where procurement can make an impact.
Identify savings opportunities. Find the spend that deserves procurement attention.
Use spend analysis to identify fragmented spend, supplier consolidation opportunities, unmanaged expenditure and categories with potential for commercial improvement.
Understand supplier spend. Get a complete view of spend across your supplier base.
Analyse supplier expenditure and identify concentration, duplication, fragmented spend and opportunities to improve supplier strategy.
Categorise spend with confidence. Turn complex transaction data into meaningful procurement insight.
Structure spend by category, supplier, department, cost centre and other dimensions to create a consistent view of expenditure that supports strategic decision-making.
Monitor maverick and unmanaged spend. Identify where spend is happening outside established procurement processes.
Highlight areas of unmanaged or non-compliant spend so procurement teams can investigate root causes, improve controls and bring more expenditure under management.
Report with confidence. Give procurement leaders the insight they need to demonstrate value.
Use configurable dashboards and reporting to track spend, supplier exposure, categories, opportunities and procurement performance, making it easier to communicate the impact of procurement.
Turn procurement data into actionable insight
Bring spend data together, understand where your money is going and identify opportunities to improve visibility, control and value across your supply chain.
Before
Pulling spend data together from multiple sources.
Spending hours cleaning and analysing data.
Struggling to spot savings opportunities.
Reporting spend manually to stakeholders.
After
See your spend in one place.
Turn spend data into insight faster.
Identify opportunities with greater clarity.
Give stakeholders clear, real-time visibility.
Make your spend work harder
See how Atamis can help you understand organisational spend, uncover procurement opportunities and turn spend data into better commercial decisions.
FAQs
What is spend analysis?
What is spend analysis?
Spend analysis is the process of collecting, classifying and analysing an organisation’s purchasing and supplier data to understand where money is being spent. It helps procurement teams identify spending patterns, control costs, uncover savings opportunities, manage suppliers and make better-informed procurement decisions.
What is spend management?
What is spend management?
Spend management is the process of controlling and optimising organisational expenditure across suppliers, categories and purchasing activity. It uses spend data, procurement processes and supplier information to improve visibility, control costs, increase compliance and identify opportunities to achieve better value.
What are the benefits of spend analysis software?
What are the benefits of spend analysis software?
Spend analysis software can help organisations bring fragmented procurement data together, improve spend visibility and reduce the time spent manually preparing reports. It can help procurement teams identify savings opportunities, analyse supplier and category spend, monitor purchasing behaviour and make better-informed decisions.
How does spend analysis software work?
How does spend analysis software work?
Spend analysis software collects procurement and purchasing data from relevant sources, then organises and categorises it so teams can analyse their expenditure. Users can typically view spend by supplier, category and other data points to identify trends, opportunities and areas requiring further investigation.
How can spend analysis help identify maverick spend?
How can spend analysis help identify maverick spend?
Spend analysis can highlight purchasing activity that falls outside agreed suppliers, contracts, categories or procurement processes. By comparing actual expenditure with procurement arrangements, teams can identify potentially non-compliant or unmanaged spend and investigate where stronger controls or better engagement may be needed.
What features should spend analysis software include?
What features should spend analysis software include?
Effective spend analysis software should provide clear visibility of organisational spend and make it easy to analyse data by relevant suppliers, categories and other dimensions. Important capabilities can include spend classification, supplier and category analysis, configurable reporting, data visualisation, trend analysis and the ability to bring data from multiple sources together.
How do you choose the right spend analysis software?
How do you choose the right spend analysis software?
When choosing spend analysis software, organisations should consider how easily it can bring together their procurement data, the quality of its spend classification and reporting capabilities, how intuitive it is for users and how well it integrates with existing systems. It should provide reliable spend visibility while giving procurement teams practical insight they can use to improve control, identify opportunities and support better decisions.