Competitive coverage
The spend you tell us is awarded without competition, multiplied by the improvement you assume. Empty until you supply the rate.
For finance
Procurement Value at Stake Model
Editable spreadsheet · 21 August 2026
A model you edit, not a number we give you
Finance functions do not accept a vendor's number. They rebuild the model with their own assumptions, and then decide whether it survives. So this is a spreadsheet rather than a calculator on a web page: open it, replace every assumption with yours, and take the result into an internal approval without needing anything further from us.
There is no savings rate in this file. The price improvement cell is empty when you open it, and the model returns nothing until you enter your own.
That is deliberate. We would need a rate we could defend, and we do not have one — the range published elsewhere on this site traces to a single customer's own measurement and is linked as a case study, not offered as a rate to expect. A default sitting in the file would look like our forecast of your result. It would also be the first thing your reviewers deleted.
What it calculates
Cycle time
Staff hours released per purchase order, valued at the loaded rate you enter. Elapsed time is captured separately and deliberately not valued.
Invoice exceptions
Exceptions avoided against your target rate, converted to hours at the minutes-per-exception figure you supply.
Sensitivity
Your spend at a range of assumptions, so a reviewer can see how much the answer depends on the one number you supplied.
Why it is value at stake, not ROI
A return needs what the platform costs, and that is quoted against scope, users, integrations and rollout rather than published. Any figure we printed for it would be invented. Ask us for a quote and set it against what this model produces — that division is yours to do, with a real number on both sides.
Effort released, not headcount removed
The cycle time and invoice lines value time at the rate you enter. They are not a claim that posts can be removed. Whether released capacity becomes reduced cost, redeployed people or neither depends on how your team is structured, and the model does not assume either way.
Who this is for
CFOs and finance business partners asked to accept a procurement savings number, and procurement leaders who would rather hand over a model than a claim.
CFOs
Finance Business Partners
Procurement Leaders
Five sheets: how to use it, your inputs, the value at stake, a sensitivity table, and a notes sheet recording who owns every assumption in the file.
The model asks how much of your spend is awarded without competition. If you do not have that figure to hand, the Single-Sourced Spend Estimator works it out from numbers you already know, in about a minute and without a form.
Document Details
- Sheets
- 5
- File Type
- XLSX · editable
- Language
- English
Set it against a real quote.
The model gives you the value side. Ask us for the cost side and you have both halves.