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Category spend & savings

Rolls an invoice or contract export up by spend category, charts it, and quantifies savings opportunities with the suggested lever per category.

  • Procurement & Vendors
  • Traceable reasoning
  • Runs anywhere
Preview methodology

1–2 weeks → ~15 minutes

For a full population, not a sample

No coding required

Input
An invoice or contract export
Output
Spend rolled up and charted by category
Runs in
Skillsize · ChatGPT · Claude · Copilot
Export
SKILL.md · MCP
Time saved
~1–2 weeks per run

— USE CASES

What people use Category spend & savings for

Spend analysis

Turn a raw invoice export into a category view with quantified savings opportunities.

Savings target planning

Identify where a savings target can realistically be met and with which lever.

Supplier consolidation cases

Find fragmented categories where consolidation is the obvious move.

What it works from

  • An invoice or contract export
  • Your category taxonomy
  • Any benchmark or target figures

What you get back

  • Spend rolled up and charted by category
  • Quantified savings opportunities per category
  • The suggested lever behind each opportunity

— HOW IT BEHAVES

How Category spend & savings produces its result

The mechanics behind this specific template — what it reads, what it calculates, and where a human stays in the loop.

Every row of the supplier panel

Each row of your export is processed on the same basis, so no supplier is skipped however long the table is.

The pattern charted

Movement across the supplier panel is visualised from the computed data, so the trend is legible at a glance.

Composed as work product

Findings on the supplier panel are written up as a document that reads like professional output, with each claim tied back to a supplier.

Roll-up alongside supplier-level detail

Detail rows are summarised into the grouped view of the supplier panel without losing the underlying suppliers.

Why this is expensive by hand

Load an invoice or contract export. Spend analysis is the typical trigger — turn a raw invoice export into a category view with quantified savings opportunities. Get it right and the conclusion holds up in the room; get it rushed and it gets picked apart. Either way it costs roughly 1–2 weeks of experienced attention.

How this Skill produces it

Skillsize turns that work into a Skill: you supply the material, and what comes back is spend rolled up and charted by category, with quantified savings opportunities per category. The criteria, ordering and review points that make the answer trustworthy are encoded in the Skill itself — which is the difference between a structured method and a prompt someone pastes in. In effect, 1–2 weeks of senior time compresses into ~15 minutes — and the output is comparable across clients, quarters and colleagues instead of shaped by whoever ran it.

Who it's for

  • Procurement and category managers
  • Third-party risk and vendor management teams
  • Bid and proposal teams
  • Consultants running sourcing exercises

Run it in Skillsize — or export it anywhere

Category spend & savings exports as a structured SKILL.md file and is MCP-ready, so the same method runs in ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or your own AI products. Adapt it to your methodology, and the intelligence stays yours — not locked to one vendor.

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