{"id":28990,"date":"2017-06-30T09:30:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T14:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simfoni.com\/?p=28990"},"modified":"2022-06-07T06:23:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T11:23:05","slug":"does-tail-spend-really-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simfoni.com\/spend-forecasting\/does-tail-spend-really-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Tail Spend Really Matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The generally accepted definition of &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/simfoni.com\/tail-spend-management-guide\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"11\" title=\"Tail Spend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">tail spend<\/span><\/a>&rdquo; is the bottom 20% of purchases made by an organization (by value, volume, or both). The Pareto rule is also usually applied to <span class=\"\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">tail spend<\/span> in regard to suppliers, i.e. <span class=\"\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">tail spend<\/span> purchases or&nbsp;<strong>Low Value <a href=\"https:\/\/simfoni.com\/spend-management-101\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Spend Management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">Spend Management<\/span><\/a><\/strong> represent the bottom 20% or purchases, but very often 80% or so of suppliers are connected to this activity.<\/p>\n<p>Because it only makes up the bottom 20% of purchases, there is a tendency to take a &ldquo;who cares?&rdquo; approach to <span class=\"\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">tail spend<\/span>, specifically in managing it better. After all, why waste often overstretched specialist purchasing resources on the bottom 20%? Most would rather focus on the top 80% &mdash; often referred to as strategic spend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More &ndash;<\/strong> 6 Ways to Support <a href=\"https:\/\/simfoni.com\/supplier-diversity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span class=\"\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">Supplier Diversity<\/span><\/strong><\/a> by Increasing Supplier Spend to Minority-owned, Diverse and Small Businesses.<\/p>\n<p>However, <span class=\"\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">tail spend<\/span> really does matter. In many businesses, improved <span class=\"\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">tail <span class=\"\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">spend management<\/span><\/span> is the most overlooked way to reduce purchasing costs and gain even more control over all <a href=\"https:\/\/simfoni.com\/procurement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">procurement<\/a> activities.<\/p>\n<p>This is especially the case in businesses that have already focused a lot of resources and time on streamlining their <a href=\"https:\/\/simfoni.com\/procurement\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Procurement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">procurement<\/a> operations. If the strategic spend function is about as efficient as it can get, there is not much scope for achieving further savings or gaining more control of the process.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, reforming and improving <a href=\"https:\/\/simfoni.com\/tail-spend-management-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">tail spend<\/span><\/a> \/ <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/simfoni.com\/tail-spend-management-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Low Value <span class=\"\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">Spend Management<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>practices within the organization is essentially the &ldquo;last frontier&rdquo; when it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/simfoni.com\/cost-reduction\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"17\" title=\"Cost Reduction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">procurement <span class=\"\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">cost reduction<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Poorly managed <span class=\"\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">tail spend<\/span> can be a major area of cost and resource wastage and can expose the business to a variety of risks, so it is vital that some emphasis and management priority is placed on this area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The generally accepted definition of &ldquo;<span class=\"\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\"><span class=\"\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">tail spend<\/span><\/span>&rdquo; is the bottom 20% of purchases made by an organization (by value, volume, or both). The Pareto rule is also usually applied to <span class=\"\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\"><span class=\"\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">tail spend<\/span><\/span> in regard to suppliers, i.e. <span class=\"\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\"><span class=\"\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">tail spend<\/span><\/span> purchases or&nbsp;Low Value <span class=\"\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\"><span class=\"\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">Spend Management<\/span><\/span> represent the bottom 20% or purchases, but very often 80% or so of suppliers are connected to this activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[462],"class_list":["post-28990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spend-forecasting","tag-low-value-spend-management"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Does Tail Spend Really Matter? 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