We recently had a presentation by a vendor who analyzed our PO History and showed a large percentage of our spend was due to items ordered as a special. This was somewhat concerning but I could see justification for it in a way (most of the specials were rare, high cost items, such as a certain size screw, plates, etc).
I was wondering, could anyone kind of give me a ball park of what your % special spend is compared to overall spend? People here are trying to focus on keeping this to a minimum and while we only have maybe a 10-20% special order rate, the % of spend compared to the total is quite high...
I have a CR that compares spend by N and X items and breaks the spend down by supply (medical, office, repair, etc.) and non-supply (capital, equipment rental, contracted services, etc.) related expense. Our percentage spend on specials is about 40% including capital, about 17% excluding capital.
JonA
Would you be willing to share the CR that you delveloped for that report?
Matt
That was a while ago. Not sure if this is the right report but it should give you the data you need. Just replace .txt with .rpt.