My dashboard

Home › Overview. A buyer’s first screen: where I stand against my target, where my time goes, what has just happened. The profiles that open it are the buyer, the procurement manager and the administrator; Procurement management opens on Steering, the consolidated view of the department. Allow five minutes to read it.

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My dashboard

Click a number to read what it points to.

1. Scope — your suppliers, or the whole department if your profile allows it.
2. Target — the year's savings goal on your scope.
3. Savings achieved — what is already won. A target with no savings campaign is called "not measured", not counted as zero.
4. Gap — achieved minus target.
5. Conditional savings — won under a condition (a promised volume, for example): it stays apart until the condition is met.
6. Twelve months of scope — the annualised spend of the suppliers you hold, and their number, month by month.
7. The two axes of the 80/20 — who weighs on spend, and who takes your time. They are not the same suppliers.
8. Stake × workload matrix — each supplier of the scope, placed on the two axes.

1. Where I stand

• Target: the year’s goal and what is achieved to date, with the conditional part.
• A target with no savings campaign is called not measured: it is never counted as zero.
• Conditional savings stay apart until the condition (a promised volume, for example) is met.

2. Where my time goes

• Twelve months of scope: the suppliers you hold, month by month. The bar is the annualised spend of the suppliers held that month: it moves when the scope moves, not when the month’s purchases move. Two lines must not be confused: actual spend and the target.
• The two axes of the 80/20: who weighs, and who moves. The suppliers that concentrate spend are not those whose prices move the most; the screen shows them side by side.
• Latest highlights: price lists received, analyses produced, open alerts.

The stake × workload matrix, at the bottom of the screen, is the best starting point for a week. The “high stake, low workload” cell is the blind spot: a lot of money, and nobody has looked at this supplier recently.

Check it yourself

A supplier with no price list analysis has no known spend: it counts in the number of suppliers held, and for nothing in the bar. An absence is not a zero. The Rules button in the top bar states the rule applied on this screen.

What next

Know what is waiting: My tasks.