• A consistent, company wide spend analysis system providing a foundation for delivering continual process improvement

• Aggregated spend data across multiple sites delivers cost savings by enabling better targeted price negotiations with suppliers

• Improved disciplines around spend forecasting, with better tracking against targets

• Quicker response to ad hoc queries, improving senior management decision making

• Improved ability to quickly identify areas of weakness, such as too many suppliers providing the same services, and increasing administrative costs, or conversely, too much exposure to a single supplier