Imagine.
Every one of your categories had an experienced colleague who had already done the prep work for you.
Before you even get to the office in the morning.
The leading methodology of your best category managers.
Applied to every single category.
Your procurement would work the way you always intended.
Not the way a tool tells you to.
The knowledge stays — even when your most experienced experts leave.
And let's be honest: How much of your spend is truly under professional control?
Really 80%?
The rollout? Not a twelve-month project.
Impact on the afternoon of Day 1.
Elevate
Elevate visibility.
Elevate decisions.
Elevate execution.
Elevate impact.
Elevate strategic procurement.
Elevate Strategic Procurement Impact.
Procurement 2.0 has been promised so many times.
That's why we show it.
00 days, 00 hours and 00 minutes until launch.
100% visibility. No blind spots.
Every decision. Always professionally prepared.
Every implementation scales. With impact on a new magnitude.
Why this matters
Better decisions on €500M Spend are worth €50M more profit.
€1B revenue · 5% profit margin · €500M spend. Model calculation1
Your sales team would need to write 1 billion euros in new business at 5% margin.
Procurement doesn't need new customers, new factories, or new markets for this.
The 20-80 problem
20% of your suppliers are actively managed.The other 80% manage themselves.2
That means: €100M spend is unnegotiated, unsupervised, unbundled.
Why this is the case
The problem is not a lack of knowledge.The problem is that knowledge doesn't scale today.
People-dependentConsultant-dependentCapacity-constrained
Personal
25 years of strategic procurement. And a question that never let me go.
I have seen a team of twelve people responsible for 600 million euros — and honestly say:
"We only manage to do one-fifth of it really well."
I have seen consulting projects build knowledge that is gone two years later. And I asked myself:
"Why has it been like this for 25 years?"
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The Friday Note
Four Friday notes from 25 years of procurement.Three before launch. One final note after.
The calculations above are not new — I have spent 25 years working against them. Every Friday until launch, I write one down: an experience, a number, a question. After the launch, I close out the series with one final note. The sign-up above shows you the product. The note shows you the problem behind it.
The Successor Starts with the Contract Folder
What doesn't get transferred when the best category manager leaves — and why 74% of CPO time flows into transactional rather than strategic work.
The 1,027 suppliers nobody calls
The rest behind the 20% is not unimportant — it is unsorted. What this costs in the fourth quarter.
Why the same project is re-tendered two years later
Consulting is a rental contract for analytical capability. What happens when the rental expires.
Elevatry goes live.
Three quarters of the time
The last Friday note, written after launch: why more heads don't change the ratio — and what needs to change instead.
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The old procurement equation.
More coverage more people.
More methodology more consultants.
More knowledge more time.
The equation has changed.