Sourcing in practice | Session 15

Savings That Survive

Negotiated savings get announced. Realized savings get spent. The four leaks between the deal and the P and L, the five station bridge, the definition of savings a CFO will sign, every invoice line verified against the contract live, and the week that makes last year's claims real. With briefings from the advisory desk. Recorded August 2026.

The first two minutes play for everyone. The full session is available on request with a work email.

What this session covers

Every sourcing team presents a savings slide, and almost nobody checks whether the money actually arrived. The gap has a shape: the invoice leak, scope creep, the quiet uplift, and off contract spend. This session is about finding, pricing, and closing all four.

Live on the sample workspace, the watching runs as a routine: every invoice line read against the contract behind it as it arrives, billing above the contracted terms caught with the clause cited, and the portfolio tracking realized savings, verified against the invoices, next to what is still on the table.

Between the segments, the advisory desk names the four leaks, builds the definition of savings finance will sign, baseline written, categories unblended, term honest, and closes the structural leaks: caps on renewals, additions benchmarked when they are added, and no auto renewal without a window you control.

Agenda