THE SMARTBUYER SAVINGS AUDIT

Reduce supplier costs. Protect your margin.

Find better supplier deals with experts who can negotiate the savings. Get evidenced findings and a costed plan in six weeks.

15 minutes. No documents needed. No commitment to proceed.

OUR DISCOVERY GUARANTEE

2×ROI

At least twice your discovery fee in evidenced savings and recoveries.

Or no fee.

Scope and discovery fee agreed before work starts. Delivery is optional. Data requirements and terms apply.

SPECIALIST EXPERIENCE. COMMERCIAL RESULTS.

£10m+

Annual savings pipeline built for a £1bn+ global drinks group.

20:1

Return on fees for a global beauty leader.

£11.6m

Cash released for a European group using Spendkey.

Examples from SmartBuyer specialists and Spendkey. Selected results, not a forecast for your business. Case studies on request.

SAVINGS OPPORTUNITIES. ACROSS SECTORS.

Find savings across the costs that shape your margin.

Whatever your industry, we bring specialist scrutiny to the supplier costs that matter to your business—from technology and professional services to direct materials, logistics, energy and facilities.

Better supplier pricing

Identify price differences and opportunities to negotiate better deals across your key spend categories.

Recoverable overpayments

Compare invoices with agreed terms to identify and evidence overpayments owed back to your business.

Payment terms & cash

Assess payment-term opportunities and potential cash release, reported separately from recurring savings.

We work alongside your team to identify price differences, verify the value and build a delivery plan. You decide which opportunities to pursue and whether our specialists negotiate them for you.

SIX WEEKS. A CLEAR DECISION.

From spend data to a board-ready savings plan.

WEEK 1

You share the data

Provide your spend extract, supplier contracts and line-level invoices. We clean and classify every line.

WEEKS 2–5

We find and verify it

Spendkey analytics reveal the gaps. Category specialists verify and price each opportunity against your records.

WEEK 6

You decide what happens next

Receive a board-ready readout of identified savings, recoveries and cash release, with a costed plan to deliver them.

A SmartBuyer executive oversees delivery, with specialists aligned to your areas of spend. Your commitment: the data and around two hours a week.

AN AUDIT WITH A ROUTE TO DELIVERY

Find it first. Then choose who delivers it.

PHASE 1 · DISCOVERY

Evidence you can act on.

The audit identifies and evidences savings and recoverable overpayments. Payment-term opportunities and cash release are shown separately, so you can see what repeats and what is a one-off.

Twice your discovery fee is the floor, not the target.

PHASE 2 · YOUR CHOICE

Specialists who deliver it.

If you choose to proceed, SmartBuyer specialists negotiate better supplier deals and track savings through to sign-off in Spendkey. Your discovery fee is credited in full.

Negotiated savings recur every year. Cash release and recoveries are different sources of value.

THE SPECIALIST PROCUREMENT NETWORK

Analytics find the pattern. Specialists know the market.

500+ vetted specialists across 250+ categories, each with deep experience of the category and its suppliers. SmartBuyer combines that expertise with Spendkey’s analytics to turn findings into a practical commercial plan.

SPENDKEY ANALYTICS

See where the gaps are.

Spend, contracts and invoices reveal where different parts of your business pay more for the same thing.

Your data → a clearer picture

SMARTBUYER SPECIALISTS

Know what to do next.

Category experts verify and price the opportunities, then build a practical commercial plan. You choose whether they deliver it.

500+

vetted specialists

250+

Technology & services

IT & telecoms · Marketing & agencies · Professional services

Supply chain & operations

Logistics & freight · Packaging & print · Direct materials · Engineering, capex & MRO

Sites & people

Facilities & estates · Energy & utilities · People & contingent labour

Trusted by FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 businesses. Spendkey is award-winning and ISO 27001 certified.

Where could your supplier costs come down?

Talk through your priority categories and upcoming renewals. No documents needed.

BEFORE YOU DECIDE

A few things worth knowing.

What exactly does the guarantee cover?

We must evidence findings worth at least twice the discovery fee, or there is no discovery fee. The guarantee is built only from evidenced savings and recoverable overpayments, traced to your records. It does not mean the money has already been recovered or the savings delivered.

What do you need from us?

A spend extract, supplier contracts and line-level invoices, plus around two hours a week from your team. The guarantee applies when those data requirements are met. We discuss the scope and fee with you before work starts.

How does this work with our procurement team?

We work on your side of the table, alongside your team. You gain specialist coverage and a costed delivery plan while retaining the decision about which opportunities to take forward.

Do we have to commit to the delivery phase?

No. Phase 2 is your choice. If you ask SmartBuyer to negotiate and deliver the savings, your discovery fee is credited in full. Full guarantee terms are available on request.

LET’S SEE IF THERE’S A FIT

Make the first conversation useful.

Spend 15 minutes with Mark Coulson discussing your supplier costs, priority categories and upcoming renewals. Establish whether the audit could help and what the next step would involve.

Mark Coulson MCIPS · 30+ years in procurement

Email Mark

15 min

A conversation about your spend.

No documents needed. No commitment to proceed.

Guarantee: evidenced findings worth at least twice the discovery fee, or no fee. Applies where spend data, supplier contracts and line-level invoices are provided. Built only from evidenced savings and recoverable overpayments. Evidenced means traced to your records and owed, not yet recovered. Full terms on request.