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Spend Analytics Consulting: Turning Transaction Data Into Strategic Intelligence
July 30, 2026

Spend Analytics Consulting: Turning Transaction Data Into Strategic Intelligence

Natalie Eksi, Mauricio Dezen
Ask most procurement leaders how much their organization actually spends with any given supplier, and the honest answer is often “we're not entirely sure.” Not because nobody cares, but because the data lives in a dozen different places — a legacy ERP here, a corporate card feed there, an invoice sitting in someone's inbox, a spreadsheet a category manager built for last year's budget review. Without a way to pull that together into one coherent picture, strategic sourcing decisions end up built on partial information at best.