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Maverick spend, purchases made outside approved suppliers and negotiated contracts, quietly pays list price and erodes the leverage sourcing worked to win. Maverick Spend Detection finds it, and where it concentrates.
The Challenge
A maverick purchase posts to the same GL account as a compliant one, so it does not stand out.
A few categories and business units account for most of the off-contract spend, but that only shows when you look across all of it.
Buying rules exist, but nothing stops the off-contract purchase at the point it is made.
How eyko Solves It
Maverick Spend Detection reads purchases against approved suppliers and contracts, flags the spend that went outside them, quantifies the discount lost to list pricing, and shows where it concentrates by category and business unit.
14M of spend this year, about 8 percent of the total, went outside approved suppliers and negotiated contracts. It concentrates in two categories and a handful of business units that route around the preferred vendors, paying list price instead of the contracted rate.
| Metric | Current | Benchmark | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Primary indicator | Flagged | Target | Action needed |
| Secondary indicator | Monitoring | Within range | On track |
| Trend direction | Declining | Stable | Review required |
Maverick spend detection reads purchases against approved suppliers and contracts and surfaces the spend that went outside them. The Playbook quantifies how much is off-contract and the discount lost to list pricing, so procurement sees the leakage that a GL view hides rather than discovering it at audit.
This is decision intelligence in practice: the what, the why, and the what next from your live data.
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Everything you need to know about Maverick Spend Detection.
Maverick spend detection reads purchases against approved suppliers and contracts and flags the spend that went outside them. eyko quantifies the discount lost to list pricing and shows where the off-contract spend concentrates by category and business unit, so procurement can redirect it onto contract.
It reads your purchase-order and invoice detail, your approved-supplier list, and your contract terms from your ERP and procurement system, alongside any data platform you already run. It works with systems such as SAP, Coupa, Oracle, and NetSuite, and there is no separate data project to start.
The Playbook compares each purchase against your approved suppliers and negotiated contracts. Spend that runs through a non-preferred vendor, or pays list price where a contract rate exists, is flagged as off-contract and grouped by category and business unit, so the leakage is attributed rather than just totaled.
Beyond the after-the-fact view, the Playbook shows where off-contract spend concentrates so you can add a guided-buying step in those categories. That catches the next off-contract purchase at the point it is made rather than surfacing it at the next audit.
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