How many hours and USD your procurement team gets back.
A buyer spends around 120 hours a month on operational work: researching suppliers, chasing quotes, building comparisons and keying data into the ERP. Enter how many purchases you manage per month and see how many of those hours come back, and what they are worth in USD per year.
Your team today
Purchase processes or orders the team handles in a month. Hours per activity scale with this number.
Salary plus overhead, per worked hour.
Adjust to my case
Hours per buyer per month on each activity.
596
Hours recovered per month (whole team)
USD 83,678
Estimated annual savings (USD per year)
3
FTE equivalents freed (based on 198 hours per person per month)
At these numbers, the annual savings typically cover the cost of Sourced for your volume several times over. Book a demo for a quote with your data.
Where the hours go
Hours per buyer per month, before and after Sourced.
Supplier research and outreach
-75%Today: 30 hrs/moWith Sourced: 7.5 hrs/mo
Chasing incomplete quotes
-75%Today: 22 hrs/moWith Sourced: 5.5 hrs/mo
Building quote comparisons
-75%Today: 30 hrs/moWith Sourced: 7.5 hrs/mo
Delivery coordination
-62.5%Today: 8 hrs/moWith Sourced: 3 hrs/mo
Manual ERP data entry
-80%Today: 10 hrs/moWith Sourced: 2 hrs/mo
Strategic analysis and negotiation
0%Today: 20 hrs/moWith Sourced: 20 hrs/mo
No reduction: this is where the recovered hours get reinvested.
Reduction percentages based on Sourced customer benchmarks.
From estimate to actual number
In a 30-minute demo we load your real categories and suppliers and you see the full flow, from request to matched invoice. No ERP migration, live in 2 to 3 weeks.
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