Free tools to size your tail spend
Start here: three self-service tools to see where your tail spend leaks and what fixing it is worth. Just your work email, no credit card.
Run a free tail spend report
Everything below your strategic category threshold. Find the top 3 categories by transaction volume with no structured sourcing process. That is where you start.
Annual indirect spend
$8,000,000
% of indirect that is tail spend
31%
Categories
How often do you buy each? Tick the ones bought by email or spreadsheets — no structured sourcing process.
MRO & maintenance supplies
Office supplies & consumables
Packaging & shipping supplies
IT hardware & accessories
Facilities & janitorial
Marketing & print
Travel & expense
Professional services & contractors
Fleet, fuel & vehicle
Catering & breakroom
Your report
Top categories by transaction volume with no structured sourcing process.
Estimated annual price leakage in the categories you ticked (model)
$178,560
MRO & maintenance supplies
52 transactions/yr · ≈ $908,169/yr in spend · ≈ $65,388/yr leakage
Packaging & shipping supplies
26 transactions/yr · ≈ $454,085/yr in spend · ≈ $32,694/yr leakage
Office supplies & consumables
12 transactions/yr · ≈ $209,577/yr in spend · ≈ $15,090/yr leakage
Model assumptions, not customer results.
Keep sizing your opportunity
Two more free tools to put numbers on your tail spend before you talk to anyone.
Procurement ROI calculator
Estimate the return of bringing your tail spend under management: savings, hours back and payback period, based on your own numbers.
Calculate your ROILeakage calculator
How much is maverick buying and unmanaged tail spend costing you? Size the leak in your indirect spend in under a minute.
Size your leakage