No API, no integration, no IT project — and you don't need clean data to begin.
Procurement exports only — PO, invoice, contract, and supplier master. We consolidate, classify, and report too. The product is the diagnostic — what's actually happening and the five things to fix first, with your Spend Control Score as the tracked result.
| Layer | What it does | Spend Sphere |
|---|---|---|
| Consolidation | One reconciled view of spend | Table stakes — we do it |
| Classification | What are we buying? | Table stakes — we do it |
| Dashboards / cubes | Charts, filters, "on contract" % | The basics — not the point |
| The diagnostic (+ Spend Control Score) | What's actually happening, the five things to fix first — tracked over time | The product |
Messy or partial is fine — SAP, TechnologyOne, Coupa.
No API. Validation takes most of the time.
We build your score, reconstruct the trend from your history, and hand back the scorecard plus a login to drill in.
Days → weeks → ~3 months. Call and exports, then progress once data is in.
Every engagement includes a short note on how we worked it out:
Spend + supplier master builds the baseline score and its trend; the longer the history, the further back we can reconstruct it. Add the contract register to sharpen the contract-use input.
PO and/or invoice: supplier, amount, date, contract-reference fields — even where blank. Longer history = a longer trend.
Supplier name and ABN for roll-up.
Sharpens the contract-use input to the score — refs, dates, or contract-link extract.
Messy data is fine — gaps mark "needs verification", not wrong answers. A project now — one fixed-scope engagement, or a refresh each period, often alongside your ERP. Full framing on An answer now.
Your data stays safe — Australian-hosted, encrypted in transit and at rest; we sign an NDA before any data moves. Privacy →
A diagnostic that opens the black box between your policies and your ledger. It reads your PO, invoice, contract and supplier data to show what's actually happening with your spend, whether there are issues, and the five things to fix first — plus a Spend Control Score you track over time.
Procurement and supplier spend only — purchase orders, invoices, contracts, and supplier master. Not general ledger, payroll, or company-wide finance unless it's in those exports.
No. Dashboards connect data and leave you to interpret it. We deliver a scored answer — your Spend Control Score, its trend, and the top five things to fix — refreshed each period.
From your historical exports we reconstruct the score for past periods, so your first scorecard already shows whether control has been rising or falling.
It starts as a project, not a subscription — exports in, a scorecard out, plus a secure login to drill in. Keep it current with a refresh we drive, do it yourself, or move to a subscription later. Many teams buy it as a bridge while a new system catches up — see An answer now or pricing.
Most teams can build a chart once. The hard part is a defensible score kept current every cycle across whole-of-spend. We own that refresh; you don't rebuild spreadsheets each quarter.
If they reliably rebuild a defensible whole-of-spend control number before every board question, you may not. We're for when that goes stale or nobody owns the rebuild.
Days to start; weeks for progress; about three months to your full first scorecard.