Procurement Dashboards: spend, vendors and what to buy next
IncludedA procurement dashboard over your live Spire purchasing, with five views behind it: spend and cost, vendor performance, operational efficiency, replenishment alignment, and cash and payables. A demand outlook sits beside them and suggests what to buy next from sales trend and season.
Key capabilities
- Spend, open purchase orders, on-time delivery and vendor concentration at a glance
- Each vendor's spend, on-time rate, lead time and balance
- On-time delivery by month and by buyer, with the average order cycle time
- What is below its reorder point with nothing on order
- Open payables, overdue and due soon, with aging
- A demand outlook over 30 to 120 days, from sales trend and season
The flow, end to end
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Start at the dashboard
Six headline figures: spend, open purchase orders, on-time delivery, vendor concentration, items to order and payables. Each opens the rows behind it, with a link to the view that owns it.
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Judge your vendors
The vendor scorecard ranks vendors by spend, with each one's on-time rate, average lead time, current balance and any hold.
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Close the gaps
Replenishment alignment shows what is below its reorder point, what has nothing on order at all, and what is out of stock, with the highest-value items to order first.
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Look ahead
The demand outlook takes a horizon, a warehouse and a supplier, and suggests a quantity from the last year's sales, the trend against the year before and the month's seasonal pattern. It exports to Excel.
Included in the Nexus platform
Procurement Dashboards draws on the same live data as everything else you run on Nexus, so it works in step with your other modules: no syncs, no exports. It is part of the flat Nexus platform fee, with unlimited field & viewer seats, no per-tech charge.
What people ask about Procurement Dashboards
Does it change anything in Spire?
No. Every view reads your Spire purchasing and writes nothing back. Raising and approving requisitions is what the Purchasing module does.
Who can see spend and prices?
Your purchasing roles: administrators, people with the gross profit permission, requisition queue users and purchase approvers. Everyone else cannot open these screens.
How is on-time delivery measured?
From receipts that carry both a required date and a received date. A receipt missing either is left out, not counted as late.
What does the demand outlook leave out?
It covers your top 300 items by sales over the last year, and a part that sold nothing in that year is left out. It cannot tell a promotion or a one-off project order from regular demand.
Included with your Nexus platform
Book a demo and see it running on your own data, connected to the systems you already use.