Routine spend is where control is usually lost, because it is too small to argue about and too frequent to ignore.
Anything under the threshold is bought on a card and reconciled later, which is how indirect spend becomes both the largest line nobody manages and the hardest one to explain.
Approval chains and budget checks run when the order is raised. An order that would breach a budget stops there rather than surfacing in a reconciliation.
ProcurementDifferent sites buy the same thing from different suppliers with no negotiated price applied, and nobody sees it because the orders are individually small.
Contract price lists attach to the buying account, so every site pays the agreed price without anyone having to remember it.
CatalogueA budget check performed at month end is a report, not a control.
Janitorial, print and workplace services are searchable by radius alongside national suppliers, so a site can buy locally without leaving the process.
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