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Results

What we have found and delivered for our clients.

Spendkey works across North America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Australia, in the private and public sectors. Many of our clients are owned by private equity or listed. The platform works in any language and any currency.

Akbar, Financial Director, Mundipharma“Spendkey could come in, move at pace and deliver results very, very quickly.”
Authority Brands logo, a Spendkey client
Basic-Fit logo, a Spendkey client
Bedford Borough Council logo, a Spendkey client
Boots logo, a Spendkey client
CohnReznick logo, a Spendkey client
David Lloyd Clubs logo, a Spendkey client
Envu logo, a Spendkey client
Global Fashion Group logo, a Spendkey client
Greystar logo, a Spendkey client
Hargreaves Lansdown logo, a Spendkey client
Momentum Group logo, a Spendkey client
Mundipharma logo, a Spendkey client
Nestlé logo, a Spendkey client
Ocado Retail logo, a Spendkey client
Octavia Housing logo, a Spendkey client
PIB Group logo, a Spendkey client
Pickles logo, a Spendkey client
Reckitt logo, a Spendkey client
Swansea University logo, a Spendkey client
Tate & Lyle logo, a Spendkey client
Yunex Traffic logo, a Spendkey client
Traffic lights at a wet city junction at night, representing the traffic systems sectorInfrastructure
€2.03bn

Every supplier, every invoice, agreed to the euro

9,919 supplier names cleaned to 8,046 parent groups, with every dashboard total agreed to the euro.

Yunex Traffic
Rooftop heating and cooling plant at dusk, representing the building services sectorHealth and fitness
€10m–€15m

Savings found in HVAC and cleaning, club by club

€131m in 13 categories, every supplier invoice line classified, and 12,162 supplier records rolled up to 79 groups.

Basic-Fit
Rows of servers in a data centre hall, representing the data centres sectorRetail
€4.8m

Technology costs cut, and banked

€46m a year of technology spend renegotiated across 26 suppliers, and the savings landed in the budget.

Global Fashion Group
A pharmaceutical production line, representing the life sciences sectorPharma
$25m

44 ERP instances, one clean view

200,000 transactions a year from 44 ERP instances in 20 languages. Reporting went from four weeks to instant.

Mundipharma

Identify

Savings and working capital found · 26
Reckitt logo, a Spendkey client
Reckitt€48bnof spend analysed

Classification at global scale, now on V2

Spend across 74,001 suppliers classified and fed back into Reckitt's own systems. Now moving onto V2 with Reckitt's own use cases: an overview by topic, supplier consolidation, should-cost, and chat that works at this scale.

Yunex Traffic logo, a Spendkey client
Yunex Traffic€1.3m+of savings on a first pass, on €2.03bn of spend

Every supplier, every invoice, agreed to the euro

9,919 supplier names cleaned to 8,046 parent groups, with dashboard totals agreed to the computed totals to the euro. 1.27m transactions analysed, and a first pass on civil works and installation found at least €1.3m of savings.

Authority Brands logo, a Spendkey client
Authority Brands$6.7mof working capital

15,000 invoices paid before they were due

43% of supplier invoices were paid early. Enforcing the payment terms already agreed frees $6.7m of cash, with no renegotiation.

Recover

Money brought back from suppliers · 3
Basic-Fit logo, a Spendkey client
Basic-Fit1%of supplier spend recovered

Duplicate payments and a missing credit note

Each supplier invoice checked against its purchase order and supplier contract, with three kinds of money kept apart: money to claim back, invoices to check before paying, and spend outside the contracted scope.

Nestlé logo, a Spendkey client
Nestlé25%overcharged where a rate card existed

Ocean freight checked against its contracted rates

123 supplier contracts, rate cards, invoices and shipping documents read with no manual keying, and 98 voyages checked. 85% of voyages had no matching rate card at all.

Envu logo, a Spendkey client
Envu86%of matched invoices had a mismatch

Supplier contract to purchase order to supplier invoice

134 supplier contracts, purchase orders and supplier invoices read and matched line by line, with every unit converted to metric. Six in seven invoices differed from their order or contract on amount, price, product code or payment terms. On a tolling agreement the invoiced unit price was above the price agreed for the year, and a part delivery was invoiced in full.

Protect

Margin kept before signing · 1
Electrical equipment manufacturer, US$20m of $24mof margin kept, before signing

Every index clause priced before a ten-year bid

Every escalation clause modelled against the bill of materials, with a 10% tariff and yen and Canadian dollar moves. Four suppliers carried 95% of the risk and 20 of 560 parts carried 80%. Each part got a buffer in % and $, with a confidence score.

Public sector, housing and universities

3
Bedford Borough Council logo, a Spendkey client
Bedford Borough Council£247.5m133,395 transactions

A council's spend, classified and checked against its finance system

5,010 suppliers classified, with a side-by-side comparison against the council's finance system.

Octavia Housing logo, a Spendkey client
Octavia Housing£105.4m21,882 transactions

Social housing spend across three entities

Supplier spend from the housing association, its charitable foundation and its market-rent arm normalised and classified onto one view.

Swansea University logo, a Spendkey client
Swansea University£440.8m144,757 transactions

Purchase-to-pay review for a university

9,912 suppliers classified over two and a half years. Over £100m of non-payroll spend a year, and more than 30% of it bought without a purchase order.

Recognition

Recognised by the analysts and awards that follow our market.

Procurement and Supply Chain Awards 2024, winner2024Winner, AI in procurementProcurement and Supply Chain Awards
Procurement and Supply Chain Awards 2025, runner-up2025Runner-up, AI in procurementProcurement and Supply Chain Awards
The Hackett Group 2026 recognition2026Upper quartile for customer valueThe Hackett Group
Everest Group 2026 recognition2026Innovation Watch: InfluencerEverest Group

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