Driving end-to-end strategic and operational procurement analytics
Combination of best-in-class platforms to drive procurement process insights through Celonis and strategic spend insights through Spendscape by McKinsey. The combination of Celonis and Spendscape provides insights to identify spend opportunities, track compliance, and mitigate leakage.
How we support you
Combining the technology and insights of two solutions into one offering.
One-stop shop
Comprehensive insights provided through the combination of Spendscape’s spend management analytics and Celonis’ process analytics to enable strategic and operational optimization in procurement.
Consistent and performant insights
Our insights are driven by a common, cleansed, and enriched data model across source systems, which leverage Spendscape and Celonis data transformation elements.
Simplified IT integration model
A simplified model enables interfacing a single platform to source systems that fuel both Spendscape and Celonis analytics.
The combination of process analytics and strategic spend insights provide a complete picture of your procurement behavior. What impact do processing inaccuracies have on my strategic planning? What are the processing shortcomings behind actual results? Which levers can I pull to optimize my procurement process?
Another advantage of the combination of both worlds is the simple fact that only one extraction—capability per source—system has to be installed. It will fuel both analytic areas.
Marco Pachovsky, Director of Engineering
Use Cases
Jointly, Spendscape, and Celonis provide a comprehensive set of procurement analytics to enable data-backed decision making and procurement optimization.
Combined use cases enabled by joint extract, load, and transform (ELT) process
Procurement cockpit
One-stop shop for quick identification of areas of opportunity, noteworthy trends, and potential value leaks that call for action.
Spend explorer
Fulfills all reporting needs and dives deep into spend data from all perspectives.
Opportunity scan
360-degree assessment of savings opportunities for procurement excellence.
Working capital
Accounts-payable-focused analytics that support optimization of the company’s cash flow.
Supplier negotiation
Fact base to enable procurement managers to make more informed decisions while preparing for supplier negotiations.
Category insights
Holistic suite of insights to support procurement in reviewing and optimizing category strategies across all relevant dimensions.
Synergy analytics
Quick assessment of procurement-related synergies for mergers and acquisitions.
Emissions transparency and sustainability
Greenhouse gas emissions transparency induced by a company’s procurement activities.
Risk analytics
Holistic supplier and country-based risk analysis to identify, assess, and mitigate exposure to potential supply chain disruptions.
Input cost monitoring
Market-linked insights enabling procurement to monitor cost drivers of strategic goods and react to unfavorable trends.
Minimize free-text requisitions
Minimize time spent in manual requisition operations and redirect employees’ time to high-value-added activities.
Reduce manual rework
Rework and changes cause significant manual effort. Resolve root causes such as outdated master data to increase labor productivity.
Resolve payment blocks
Automatically resolve payment blocks by solving root causes such as address, price, and quantity mismatches between purchase order (PO) and invoice.
Increase procurement automation
Use a data-driven assessment to identify automation potential in your process. Resolve the root cause of manual activities early in the process.
Increase accounts payable automation
Use data to assess if there’s an opportunity for automation in your processes.
Minimize late deliveries
Reduce imprecise deliveries to hold less safety stock and prevent late customer payments due to production delays.
Minimize early deliveries
Supply planning requires assumptions on the time it takes to receive products from suppliers. Incorrect assumptions cause issues in stocking and payment schedules.
Avoid payment term mismatches
Ensure the best available payment terms are used across purchase order, invoice, and master data.
Avoid early payments
Optimize payment runs to avoid payments before the due date.
Reduce aging credit memos
Open credit memos are often forgotten or not leveraged quickly. Increase and accelerate application of credit memos against invoices to reduce spend and optimize working capital.
Prevent retrospective POs (“maverick buying”)
Requisitioners circumvent the procurement department and create POs only after the purchase has been made and the invoice was issued.
Celonis and McKinsey have brought the power of process mining to business transformations. Together, we are helping organizations across industries optimize their processes and achieve greater operational efficiency, better customer experiences, and stronger, sustainable business performance.