Research
The numbers behind the leak.
We make one bold claim: indirect spend leaks, and visibility stops it. We don't expect you to take our word for it, here's what McKinsey, Deloitte, and the World Economic Forum actually publish, with every figure sourced and linked.
How big is the leak, really? Every credible number we could find
KPMG documents 17–40% value leakage between contract and delivery. Hackett finds a third of indirect spend unmanaged at typical companies. Reliable Plant: 50–60% of MRO inventory inactive. All of it, sourced and linked.
McKinseyWhy procurement transformation matters: the 15–20% nobody defends
Full indirect transformations recover ~15% of spend within 12–18 months, industrial companies hit 15–20%. The mechanism McKinsey names is "value leakage," and every leak on their list is a record-keeping failure.
DeloitteWhat the top 25% of procurement organizations do differently
Deloitte's Global CPO Survey of ~350 leaders: "Orchestrators of Value" hold a 25% performance advantage, by digitizing, automating transactional work, and fixing the #1 barrier: inadequate technology.
World Economic ForumThe trillion-dollar case for supply chain visibility
The WEF attributes $1T+ of value to smart factories and supply chains, driven by procurement and inventory efficiency. Yet 90% of leaders say they lack the skills to execute. The bottleneck is the floor.