For Procurement Leaders

The Procurement Savings Reality Check

You report a savings number upward every year. This tool shows you what that number is worth in revenue terms, then walks it through the five places procurement savings quietly leak before finance will count them.

It takes about four minutes. Every figure is built from your own inputs. We do not assert benchmarks you cannot stand behind, and you will leave with the number you can actually defend to a CFO.

A self assessment for senior procurement, not a verified audit. Built by a team that has carried the accountability, not just studied it.

Step One

Start With the Number You Report

Three inputs, all yours. The tool shows its working at every step.

The figure your team takes upward.
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Please enter your reported savings.
This is the lever that converts savings into a revenue equivalent. You will find it in your audited accounts, annual financial statements, or internal management reports. If you cannot locate your own figure, the reference below shows where different sectors typically sit, but enter your own number.
1%Whole market average is about 10%30%
Not sure? See where sectors typically sit

Illustrative net margin zones, drawn from NYU Stern (Damodaran) sector data, January 2026. US public company averages. Private, small, and non US businesses vary, so treat these as a locator and enter your own figure.

Retail and groceryabout 2 to 5%
Transport and logisticsabout 3 to 8%
Business and professional servicesabout 4 to 7%
Manufacturing and industrialabout 5 to 11%
Consumer and household goodsabout 4 to 12%
Healthcare and life sciencesabout 6 to 18%
Technology and softwareabout 15 to 30%
Please enter a net margin between 0 and 100.
A genuine cost reduction means you are now paying less than before for the same thing. Cost avoidance means you stopped a price rise, dodged a new cost, or negotiated a quote down before it ever became a real bill. Both are real work, but finance usually counts hard reductions and discounts avoidance. Roughly how does your saving split?
Nearly all cost I avoided or dodgedNearly all a genuine cost reduction

In most teams, cost avoidance makes up a large share of reported savings, so a hard savings figure this high is higher than usual. That may be right for your category mix. But if any of it is closer to a cost you avoided than a budget that will actually fall, finance will typically treat it as avoidance. Take another look if you like, or keep your figure as it is. We will use the number you enter.

Please set this between 0 and 100 before continuing.

Your Headline Figure

This Is the Number Most Teams Report

Your reported savings

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That Was Leak 1 of 5. How much of your saving is a hard budget cut versus cost avoidance is the first place a reported number leaks, and you have already answered it. There are four more. We will take them one at a time, and your defensible figure will come into focus as we go.

One Step Before the Detail

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