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Procurement value and ROI calculator

Build a transparent business case from your own operating assumptions.

This model connects team capacity, transaction workload, addressable spend, implementation costs, and managed-service fees. Change any input to see the scenario recalculate immediately.

Your current environment

Start with operating data your finance team can validate.

8 FTE

Dedicated procurement and sourcing headcount.

Salary, benefits, payroll taxes, and overhead.

Spend the engagement can realistically influence.

Combined transactions included in the proposed scope.

20 min

Average labor per PO or invoice, including exceptions.

55%

Team time spent on repeatable operational work.

Used to adjust efficiency and model recommendation.

Select the state that best matches current execution.

3.5%

Apply only to addressable in-scope spend, not total company spend.

50%

Share of reclaimed time converted to measurable economic value.

Program cost and first-year assumptions

Replace the planning value with a scoped vendor quote.

Knowledge transfer, design, configuration, and launch.

New licenses, integrations, analytics, or support tools.

65%

Accounts for transition timing and benefit ramp.

Estimated business case

Directional scenario based on the assumptions entered.

Capacity returned 218 hrs/mo 1.5 FTE equivalent
Annual spend opportunity $1.75M At steady state
Annual gross value $1.84M Spend plus realized capacity value
Year-one net value $168K After fees, technology, and transition
Three-year ROI 78% Net benefit divided by total program cost
Estimated payback 6.1 mo Based on first-year net monthly benefit
Recommended starting model Hybrid managed procurement plus platform automation

This planning model is not a proposal or guarantee. Capacity value is not automatically cash savings. Validate scope, baseline data, costs, timing, and realization assumptions with finance before using the result in an investment decision.

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How the calculation works

  1. Productive team hours. Team size multiplied by 1,760 productive hours per FTE each year.
  2. Transaction hours. Monthly PO and invoice volume multiplied by average manual touch time, annualized.
  3. Reclaimable hours. Maturity and platform factors applied to scoped transaction hours and to remaining operational hours, capped at 70 percent of team hours.
  4. Capacity value. Reclaimed hours priced at loaded hourly labor cost, then reduced to the share expected to produce measurable value.
  5. Spend opportunity. The selected opportunity rate applied to addressable in-scope spend only, never to total company spend.
  6. ROI and payback. Service fee, incremental technology cost, and the one-time transition cost subtracted from realized benefit across three years.