Spend Cube Analysis
See where your money goes. Understand why. Decide what to do next.
A Spend Cube gives you more than visibility into your data. It gives you the evidence to improve supplier performance, reduce costs and make better procurement decisions with confidence.
Turn procurement data into better decisions
Most organisations hold years of procurement and operational data, but very few can turn it into actionable insight.
A Spend Cube Analysis brings together suppliers, categories and cost centres into a single view, helping you understand spending patterns, benchmark performance and identify opportunities to reduce cost, improve control and strengthen supplier management.
Whether you're reviewing procurement performance, preparing for a sourcing programme or looking for savings opportunities, a Spend Cube Analysis provides the visibility needed to make informed decisions.
What is a Spend Cube Analysis?
A Spend Cube Analysis is one of the most effective ways to analyse procurement and operational expenditure. It combines three core dimensions:
- Suppliers — who you are buying from
- Categories — what you are buying
- Cost centres or departments — where money is being spent
Together, these dimensions create a powerful analytical model that allows organisations to explore spending from multiple perspectives — who they are buying from, what they are buying, which parts of the business are spending money and where opportunities exist to improve performance.
Why organisations use Spend Cube Analysis
Most businesses know how much they spend. Fewer understand why they spend it. A well-designed Spend Cube helps answer questions such as:
- Which suppliers account for the highest spend?
- Where is supplier fragmentation creating unnecessary cost?
- Which categories are driving expenditure?
- Are similar services being purchased at different rates?
- Where are opportunities for consolidation?
- Is there evidence of contract leakage or maverick spend?
- Which sourcing initiatives should be prioritised first?
The result is better visibility, better governance and better decisions.
What Visku delivers
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Data consolidation
Bringing together fragmented procurement, operational and supplier data into a single source of truth.
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Spend Cube development
Building interactive spend analysis models that allow teams to explore spend by supplier, category, location, department and operational activity.
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Supplier benchmarking
Comparing supplier performance, rates and commercial outcomes to identify improvement opportunities.
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Opportunity identification
Highlighting savings opportunities, supplier rationalisation opportunities and sourcing priorities.
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Decision support
Turning data into practical recommendations that leaders can act on with confidence.
Key features
Interactive spend analytics
Explore spend across suppliers, categories, departments and locations.
Supplier concentration analysis
Identify supplier dependency, fragmentation and consolidation opportunities.
Supplier benchmarking
Compare labour rates, pricing structures and service performance.
Category analysis
Understand which categories drive the greatest cost and operational impact.
Service impact visibility
Connect spend decisions with operational outcomes.
Opportunity modelling
Quantify potential savings and prioritise improvement initiatives.
Spend Cube Analysis in action: Dawsongroup
The challenge
Dawsongroup wanted to gain visibility across repair, maintenance and servicing expenditure spread across multiple business units, suppliers and vehicle fleets. The organisation needed to understand:
- Supplier performance
- Maintenance demand
- Cost drivers
- Benchmarking opportunities
- Potential for increased in-house capability
The review covered £73.28 million of annual spend across a complex supplier network and operational landscape.
The impact in action
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of spend analysed — complete visibility across repair, maintenance and servicing expenditure
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benchmarking opportunity identified across supplier, labour, parts and service performance
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potential annual opportunity through targeted workshop and mobile maintenance expansion
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suppliers analysed, providing visibility into fragmentation, concentration and sourcing opportunities
Data-driven decision making: a clear roadmap to support supplier optimisation, governance improvements and future operating model decisions
The Spend Cube Analysis project gave Dawsongroup an unprecedented level of visibility across maintenance spend, supplier performance and operational impact. More importantly, it provided the evidence needed to make confident decisions about future sourcing, supplier management and capability development.
How we made it happen
Using a Spend Cube Analysis and decision support model, Visku:
- Consolidated and cleansed data from multiple systems
- Developed an interactive Power BI analytics platform
- Benchmarked labour, parts and service performance
- Analysed downtime and operational impacts
- Assessed future in-house maintenance opportunities
- Produced a prioritised improvement roadmap
The project established a single source of truth across repair and maintenance activity for the first time.
Insight is only useful if it leads to action
Want better visibility into your spend?
If your organisation is sitting on fragmented procurement, supplier or operational data, a Spend Cube Analysis can provide the visibility needed to identify opportunities, challenge assumptions and support better decisions.
Talk to Visku about Spend Cube Analysis
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