The Vendor Portfolio dashboard provides an overview of vendor spend across the organization, showing how spend is distributed over time, across vendors, cost pools, cost centers, and towers.
Who should use this dashboard?
This dashboard is intended for:
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IT management
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IT finance and FinOps teams
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IT executives
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Procurement and vendor management teams
What is this dashboard used for?
This dashboard shows a breakdown of vendor spend by month, top 20 vendors as well as which cost pools, cost centres, and towers are consuming this spend.
What questions does this dashboard answer?
This dashboard helps answer:
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What is my total vendor spend year to date?
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How does current year spend compare to prior year spend?
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Which vendors are driving the highest spend?
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Where is vendor spend being consumed across functions, cost centers, cost pools, and towers?
Key benefits
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Provides a consolidated view of vendor spend across the enterprise
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Enables comparison of year-to-date vs prior year spend trends
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Helps identify vendor concentration and dependency
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Supports vendor reviews, negotiations, and cost optimization discussions
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Combines high-level visibility with drill-down capability for deeper analysis
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KPIs
Charts and tables
Selecting any data point in a chart allows you to drill down into a more detailed view of the selected element.
Monthly Spend
The Monthly Spend chart shows the month-on-month trend and the cumulative year to date spend. Spend is shown as total spend and prior year spend for each month. The cumulative dotted spend line predicts spend for future months based on historic spend.
Click on any spend column to drill into the month and see the spend broken down for the month.
Top 20 Vendors
The Top 20 Vendors chart shows the top 20 vendors by spend from most to least spend. Spend for each vendor is shown as spend YTD, prior year spend YTD and spend variance.
Spend by Function
The Spend by Function table shows the vendor spend grouped by vendor functions. The No. of Vendors shows how many vendors contributed to spend within each function.
Click on any row to drill into the Vendor Function Spend dashboard.
Top 20 Cost Centers
The Top 20 Cost Centers chart shows the top 20 cost centers from most to least vendor spend. Spend for each cost center is shown as YTD and prior year YTD.
Click on any cost center bar to drill further into the Cost Center Vendor Spend report.
Cost Pools
The Cost Pool chart shows the cumulative year to date and prior year to date vendor spend broken down by Cost Pool. Click on any Cost Pool to drill further into the Cost Pool Vendor Spend report.
Towers
The Towers chart shows the cumulative year to date and prior year to date vendor spend broken down by Tower. Click on any Tower to drill further into the Tower Vendor Spend report.
Data sources
The table below outlines the charts available on this page and the corresponding data cubes from which each chart retrieves its data.
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Chart name |
Data cube |
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Monthly Spend |
Spend |
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Top 20 Vendors |
Spend |
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Spend by Function |
Spend |
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Top 20 Cost Centers |
Spend |
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Cost Pools |
Spend |
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Towers |
Spend |
Drill down reports: