Drive smarter decisions and maximize ROI across your request-to-retirement operations.
Source-to-Pay spend optimization outcomes that ODS can help you achieve:
1) Cost Savings
Focuses on direct financial benefits achieved through procurement activities. Key areas include strategic sourcing, supplier negotiations, spend consolidation, contract optimization, and rebate capture.
Implementing structured strategic sourcing initiatives can achieve 6-12% annual savings on newly managed spend.
Enhancing supplier negotiation practices can deliver 5-10% cost reductions through improved pricing and commercial terms.
Consolidating fragmented spend across fewer suppliers can unlock up to 15% savings through volume-based pricing and reduced transaction costs.
Improving contract lifecycle management can generate 2-5% savings by aligning terms with market trends and eliminating outdated clauses.
Implementing automated rebate tracking can unlock 10-20% more in supplier incentives that would otherwise go unclaimed.
2) Spend Visibility & Intelligence
Enhances transparency and insights into spending patterns. This involves real-time analytics, data enrichment, accurate spend classification, predictive forecasting, and comprehensive category analysis.
Deploying real-time spend analytics can increase visibility to over 90% of total spend, enabling timely and informed decisions.
Improving classification accuracy through AI and NLP tools can achieve over 90% precision in categorizing spend.
Implementing predictive analytics in procurement can improve forecast accuracy by 10-15% reducing budget surprises and unplanned spend.
Enhancing category-level visibility can enable spend analysis coverage of 90-93%, supporting better planning and sourcing decisions.
3) Category Management
Optimize spend with category-specific savings strategies, supplier consolidation, contract compliance, spend variance analysis, and alignment with business objectives.
Applying tailored strategies to individual categories can achieve 5-12% savings on managed category spend.
Consolidating the supplier base can reduce vendor count by 20-30%, boosting negotiation leverage and simplifying oversight.
Improving contract compliance controls can increase on-contract spend to 70-75%, reducing maverick buying and improving auditability.
Implementing regular variance analysis can help maintain category spend within 5% of planned budgets.
Aligning category strategies with enterprise priorities can ensure 100% of procurement plans support top-level business outcomes.
Our 4-step process for AI-enhanced spend optimization that pays for itself in less than 90 days:
Step 1
Define and design best practice outcomes
Step 2
Activate AI Assisted Workflows
Step 3
Transition and Eliminate Inefficient Workloads
Step 4
Start Realizing KPIs
Why ODS?
We bring 25+ years of operational and procurement experience, layered with deep ServiceNow expertise. Our customers typically see full ROI in under 4 months—through automation that pays off fast and scales easily.
Our AI-driven accelerators aren’t one-offs
They’re prebuilt, best-practice enhancements—crafted to drive outcomes without introducing complexity. From inventory management to request fulfillment, our playbooks are proven, fast to deploy, and built on your existing ServiceNow investment.
Beyond the Surface: Operational Intelligence in Motion
Other partners may stop at digitizing manual processes. We go further—integrating real-time data and predictive insights to prevent inefficiency before it starts.
Guided work assignments, demand prioritization, risk-aware procurement routing, and performance triggers can drive actions without waiting for human intervention.
If you’re ready to unlock untapped savings and workforce capacity, let’s talk.