We turn twelve months of your procurement spend into a prioritized, benchmarked action plan — measured against live public market data. You receive the intelligence. Your team decides how to act on it.
Suppliers are chosen by familiarity. Contracts go years without a competitive review. Material price volatility erodes margin faster than anyone has time to track. The result is systematic overpayment in identifiable categories — and no internal function with the time or leverage to fix it.
The enterprise platforms built for the Fortune 500 don't reach the $10M–$100M operator. So pricing drifts above market with nothing to measure it against — until we measure it.
In nearly every mid-market operator we look at, a meaningful slice of supplier spend has drifted above current market pricing — money that competitive sourcing typically recovers in full.
Your suppliers know exactly where the market sits. You've been negotiating at list price against counterparties with far more information. We close that information gap.
We deliver the benchmarked intelligence and the prioritized plan. Your team owns the decision and the supplier conversation. You keep control of every relationship you've built.
Our methodology does not change between industries. The same spend-classification engine, the same audit discipline, and the same dashboard architecture serve every vertical. What flexes is only two things: the benchmark data we measure against, and the category taxonomy we classify into. That makes our analysis defensible, repeatable, and impossible to wave away as opinion.
See the full methodologyEvery recommendation is ranked by dollar value and ease of capture, tied to a documented public index.
We are not affiliated with — or compensated by — any supplier or data source. The analysis is made in your interest, full stop.
Every engagement is delivered identically across all five verticals — only the benchmark sources and category taxonomy change. Start wherever your risk tolerance and timeline fit.
A low-commitment first step. We benchmark a defined slice of your spend against current market indices and return a clear read on where you sit versus the market.
The fastest path to finding the money. We analyze twelve months of spend, benchmark every category against market data, and deliver a plan ranked by dollar value and ease of capture.
Heading into a renegotiation? We build the fact base, model the targets, and shape the approach. Your team carries it into the room.
A custom Tableau or Power BI environment with your spend and our benchmark layer built in — so the intelligence stays live after the audit ends.
Outsourced procurement leadership for firms that need the function but not a full-time executive. We embed, own the roadmap, and run the analytics engine.
Tell us your industry and approximate annual spend. We'll return an initial read on where the savings likely are — and which engagement fits — before you commit to anything.
Get my recommendationDrag to your approximate annual procurement spend and select your category mix. The estimate applies documented industry recovery ranges — 5–7% on direct inputs, 10–20% on indirect categories — to your numbers.
Direct = materials, equipment, subcontracts. Indirect = MRO, services, logistics, facilities, T&E.
We collect 12 months of spend and run it through our classification engine — entity resolution and category mapping with a human-review QA layer.
Every category is measured against vertical-specific public indices — BLS PPI, NAHB, ENR, BOMA, ISM, EIA, DAT — to find where you sit versus market.
Opportunities are sized in dollars and ranked by ease of capture. Existing supplier agreements are reviewed for pricing and structure.
You receive a written report — spend waterfall, opportunity matrix, supplier review — plus a 12-month action plan and a findings presentation.
The methodology is constant; the measuring stick changes by vertical. All five are production-ready today — each with its own benchmark library and category taxonomy, ready to deploy on your spend now.
The only vertical where both halves of the cash cycle sit with one buyer. Distributors carry the procurement problem and the inventory problem, and the two are the same problem: capital tied up in what you bought at the wrong price and are holding too long. We benchmark supplier pricing and inventory performance in a single engagement.
Inventory purchases, inbound & outbound freight, warehouse labor & equipment, packaging, 3PL, MRO, vendor rebate programs.
Omnichannel brands past $20M carry distributor economics with none of the distributor infrastructure — inventory spread across DTC, marketplace, and retail accounts, and a cost base built from contract manufacturing, packaging, and freight. Sourcing and inventory benchmarked together, in one engagement.
Contract manufacturing & co-packing, raw materials, packaging & components, inbound freight & duty, 3PL and fulfillment, returns processing.
Proven methodology, deep benchmark coverage, and a category taxonomy built for the trade. Mid-size general contractors and developers lose margin quietly in materials and finishes — exactly the categories we benchmark.
Materials (concrete, steel, lumber, drywall), subcontracts, equipment rental, MEP systems, site & indirect.
The operating-phase continuation of construction — same owners, same buildings. Capital and operating spend benchmarked against BOMA and energy indices.
Capital & tenant improvements, building systems, energy & utilities, janitorial, security, landscaping, R&M.
Field-labor-intensive operations where consumables, subcontracted trades, and fleet quietly accumulate. Benchmarked against labor and services indices.
Field labor, consumables & supplies, equipment, subcontracted trades, fleet & vehicle, uniforms & PPE.
Direct materials and MRO benchmarked against ISM and commodity indices, with a NAICS-aligned taxonomy ready to map to your line items. A large, high-leverage market we serve today.
Direct materials & raw inputs, MRO, packaging, inbound logistics, indirect & facilities spend.
Fuel and freight volatility hit margin directly. Spend benchmarked against DAT freight rates and EIA fuel data.
Fuel, fleet acquisition & leasing, 3PL & freight, maintenance & parts, warehousing, indirect.
"The same analytical rigor the Fortune 500 uses to recover millions — applied, for the first time, to the mid-market operators who've been negotiating alone."
Our team has personally evaluated procurement spend across senior analyst tenure at one of the country's largest group purchasing organizations — including supplier-side pricing knowledge most consulting firms cannot access.
How we earned the numberin procurement spend analyzed by our team
The platforms that prove this category works are built for the Fortune 500 procurement function — a subscription you'd have to operationalize. We deliver the audit, not a platform you have to run.
| Enterprise procurement platforms | Generalist consultants | Ibex Spend Intelligence | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built for | Fortune 500 procurement teams | Whoever signs | $10M–$100M asset-intensive operators |
| Engagement model | SaaS subscription you operationalize | Billable hours, open-ended | Fixed-fee, scoped to a deliverable |
| Basis for findings | Proprietary platform data | Experience & opinion | Public indices + your own spend |
| Supplier-side pricing insight | Limited | Rare | GPO-side knowledge most firms can't access |
| Who controls the relationships | Platform-mediated | Consultant-led | You — always |
| Independence | Varies | Varies | No supplier compensation, ever |
We don't claim the headline savings the enterprise platforms advertise. The honest, documented figure is 5–7% on direct construction spend and 10–20%+ on indirect categories where the data supports it. We'd rather under-promise and show our work.
No. The core partnership is pure analytics — we provide the benchmarked intelligence and the prioritized plan; your team owns every supplier conversation. We only act with your authority in two services, and only by explicit arrangement: Negotiation Intelligence (where we can sit in as advisor on request) and the Fractional Procurement Director retainer.
Because they're not our opinion. Every benchmark traces to a public source — U.S. Census, BLS Producer Price Index, NAHB, ENR, BOMA, ISM, EIA, DAT — dated 2024–2026. We classify your spend, measure each category against the relevant index, and show our work. Benchmark ranges are documented public figures, not guarantees; results vary by category mix, contract maturity, and execution.
It's the norm, not the exception. Our classification engine is built to take messy transaction data — a CSV export, AP detail, GL line items — and resolve suppliers, map categories, and flag low-confidence rows for human review. Getting your spend into a clean, categorized dataset is the first thing we do, not a prerequisite you have to meet.
Nothing to start. Share your top procurement categories and approximate annual volume and we'll return an initial read on where the savings likely are and which engagement fits — before you commit to anything. If you want a formal first pass, the Procurement Benchmark Report runs $3,500–$8,000 and delivers in 10–15 days.
Yes — procurement is a near-term EBITDA lever that's often overlooked in asset-intensive portcos. We run multi-company portfolio engagements ($40K–$75K) and can map a worked scenario to your portfolio profile. The same methodology applies across construction, real estate, facilities, manufacturing, and logistics holdings.
Where the spend concentrates, which inputs moved most this year, and what disciplined sourcing recovers — built entirely on NAHB, BLS, ISM, and Census data. The same baseline we use in every audit.
Tell us your industry and approximate annual volume. We'll return an initial read on where the savings likely are — and which engagement fits — before you commit to anything.
