Procurement - Spend Real Time

Description

This subject area provides real-time information on spending patterns for procurement organizations with both direct and indirect spend. Topics analyzed include spend by supplier, business unit, item, buyer, category, commodity, etc. It provides calculated metrics to track payables performance, spend-related metrics, invoice price, invoice price variance, and invoice distribution.

Business Questions

This subject area can answer the following business questions:

• What is the spend distribution by buyer?

• What is the spend by item?

• What are the top 10 spends by supplier?

• What are the top 10 spends by category?

Job Roles

The following job roles secure access to this subject area:

• Accounts Payable Manager

• Accounts Payable Specialist

• Accounts Payable Supervisor

• Buyer

• Procurement Manager

Duty Roles

The following duty roles secure access to this subject area:

• Spend Transaction Analysis Duty Role

Primary Navigation

Navigator > Procurement

Time Reporting

This subject area supports historical reporting.

Time dimension is linked to Invoice Header Invoice Date.

Transactional Grain

Not available

Special Considerations

Predefined metrics, such as SLA Rounding Entered Amount, don't get refined when used with Spend Classification attributes because the Spend Classification integration is at the distribution level of each purchase requisition, purchase order, and invoice. If you use these attributes with predefined metrics, note that the attributes won't change the values of the metrics.