Procurement analytics for construction companies Same items. Different prices. What is it costing you?
Rebar, three-layer panels, ready-mix concrete: we evaluate the supplier invoices of your entities and building projects line by line. You see where you pay different prices for the same item and which terms go unused.
Confidential, GDPR-compliant processing of your invoice data.
This is where construction companies forgo profit in procurement. Mostly unnoticed.
Suppliers raise prices in small steps. The same items cost different amounts per entity and building project. Early-payment discounts lapse during approval.
Even 1% lower procurement costs makes a difference.
Worked example
per year, at 1% of €100m
What your invoices hold.
Spot price differences, compare terms, secure more profit: concrete price and terms levers, evidenced down to item level.
Reference: procurement analytics at a construction company
- Client
- Construction company with around €1bn revenue and around €500m procurement volume
- Scope
- approx. 150,000 individual invoices from 160 suppliers
- Up to40%price deviation at item level
- 1–2%savings from consistent discounts
- Up to€50,000savings per supplier and year
Anonymized client example.
What you take into your next supplier talk
- Savings potential per supplierCalculated from your actual invoices, not from industry benchmarks.
- Price development at item levelHow prices for rebar, three-layer panels or ready-mix concrete have changed over time, per supplier.
- Comparison across entities and building projectsWhere you pay different prices for the same item.
- Term and discount leversAgreed discounts and payment terms that go unused.
How your invoices become comparable
Three excerpts of an analysis as you have it in hand after the assessment and the target picture.
Comparable as: rebar B500B, Ø 12 mm (€/t)
Values for illustration
Values for illustration
Money is made in procurement.
Every euro you save in procurement goes straight to your bottom line.
Little effort on your side.
You provide the invoices, we do the analysis.
From a one-off analysis to an ongoing check
If new invoices are to be checked continuously from now on, five steps follow. Each delivers a concrete result, and then we decide together on the next one. Stopping is a result too.
The five steps in detail
Step 01: Scope & data basis
ResultComparable item data across entities, building projects and suppliers.
- What we do
- Together we set the scope: suppliers, entities, building projects and period. You provide the agreed selection of invoices; we structure and harmonize them down to item level.
- What we agree on together
- Which suppliers, entities and period are in scope.
Step 02: Levers & target value
ResultPrioritized price and term levers with identified potential per supplier.
- What we do
- We compare prices and terms. Then we assess the levers economically and propose a metric to measure impact. One example is price deviations caught before payment.
- What we agree on together
- Which levers you tackle, the target and the deviation above which procurement decides.
Step 03: Ongoing invoice check
ResultA check that runs on your systems in daily operations, every decision logged.
- What we do
- New invoices are checked continuously against order price and framework terms. What matches goes through. Deviations go to your procurement team with all documents. On request we support supplier negotiations.
- What we agree on together
- The check rules, the threshold for procurement and the start with the first suppliers.
Step 04: Measure & readjust
ResultA measurement report: realized impact against the agreed target.
- What we do
- We measure against the agreed target which deviations were caught and which savings were actually realized. Rules that are too strict or too loose are adjusted.
- What we agree on together
- What happens if the target is missed, up to and including a stop.
Step 05: Handover to your procurement team
ResultRun by your team; any next area gets its own target.
- What we do
- Your procurement team runs the check itself, with documentation and named responsibilities. On request we propose the next commodity group or entity.
- What we agree on together
- Acceptance of the handover. Separately, whether and where to continue.
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Your first step
- First check in a conversation
- Test run on a sample of your invoices
- Results report with your savings potential
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Does the analysis pay off with your suppliers?
In the first check we clarify which invoice data is available and which suppliers, entities or building projects belong in the analysis. In the test run we then analyze a sample of your invoices and show you where the savings potential lies. No obligation, and confidential.
