How much is tail spend costing you?

Overview of session:

Hosted by Tom Mills, Soldo presents an interactive workshop exploring how procurement leaders can regain control of tail spend — without slowing the business down.

Tail spend often hides operational drag: manual processes, fragmented suppliers, limited visibility, and reactive governance. The cost isn’t just financial, it’s time, control and strategic focus.

In this facilitated session, we’ll debate how to reduce friction, improve real-time visibility, and empower budget holders to spend confidently within clear guardrails.

Through peer discussion and practical scenarios, we’ll explore:

• Where tail spend creates the biggest time drain
• How to balance decentralised purchasing with central oversight
• Ways to reduce maverick spend without adding bureaucracy
• How better visibility can free procurement to focus on higher-value work

This is a working session designed for challenge, debate and practical takeaways — not just theory.