Spend analysis: Pareto, tail spend and concentration
Drop in an export of invoices, purchase orders or payments. See which suppliers make up 80% of your spend, how many sit in the tail, how concentrated spend is and how much has no contract behind it.
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Columns it looks for: supplier (or vendor, payee), amount (or spend, net amount, invoice amount), and optionally category and a contract or PO reference. One row per line is fine; lines for the same supplier are added up.
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What the numbers mean
- Pareto (80/20): the smallest number of suppliers that together make up at least 80% of spend. In the sample, 5 of 18 suppliers.
- Tail spend: the suppliers outside that group. Many small suppliers mean more invoices, onboarding and risk checks per dollar spent.
- Concentration (HHI): the sum of each supplier's squared percentage share, from near 0 (spread across many) to 10,000 (one supplier). The effective number of suppliers is 10,000 ÷ HHI: spend in the sample behaves as if it were split evenly across 4.5 suppliers.
- Spend without a contract: lines whose contract or PO column is blank or says no.
Next: score the suppliers that matter in the risk register, or estimate a negotiation with the savings calculator.
A spreadsheet goes stale. Keep the register live.
In Qeluntra, risk is scored when a supplier arrives through source-to-pay and onboarding, so the register is a view over the live record rather than a document someone refreshes.
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