Vendor Management & Contract Review
Nobody sees your vendor spend more completely than the people coding it. Recurring charges, silent auto-renewals, and price increases that arrived without a conversation are all visible in the books long before they become visible to you.
What's included
- Vendor spend ranked by annual value rather than by invoice frequency
- Renewal and notice dates tracked, so the decision happens before auto-renewal removes it
- Price increases traced against what you were paying two and three years ago
- Duplicate and dormant services flagged
- Support preparing a renegotiation, including the number to open with
- A view of which vendors are genuinely material and which are noise
Who it's for
- Businesses with a long tail of recurring vendor charges nobody owns
- Owners who find out about a renewal after it has already renewed
- Companies whose supplier pricing has crept upward over several years
- Anyone about to sign a multi-year agreement without a spend baseline
How it runs
The actual sequence, start to finish.
- 01
Build the picture
Every recurring vendor pulled out of the books and ranked by annual spend, which almost always reorders what owners assumed the list looked like.
- 02
Find the dates
Renewal and notice periods collected, because whatever leverage exists disappears the day a contract quietly renews itself.
- 03
Identify the drift
Current pricing compared against the same vendor two and three years back, so an increase that arrived in stages is visible as a total.
- 04
Prepare the conversation
You walk into a renegotiation with a number and a history behind it rather than a feeling that you're paying too much.
What it costs
Quoted as a one-time review, or folded into ongoing work for monthly clients. Scoped after seeing how many vendor relationships are actually in play.
Questions about vendor management & contract review
Is this legal advice?
No. We read contracts for commercial terms: price, duration, notice periods, escalation clauses, not for legal risk. Anything carrying genuine legal weight belongs with a lawyer, and we will say so rather than offer an opinion we're not qualified to give.
Will you negotiate on our behalf?
We'll prepare the position and can sit in on the conversation. The relationship is yours and the decision stays with you.
How much is usually there to find?
It varies and we won't pretend otherwise. What is consistent is that the recurring spend turns out to be larger and older than owners expect once it's ranked by annual value instead of by how often the invoice arrives.
More questions answered on the FAQ page.
Often paired with
Accounts Payable & Receivable
Bills in, invoices out, and somebody actually chasing what you're owed.
Budgeting & High-Level Analysis
A budget built off your real numbers, and the analysis that shows you exactly what is driving your results.
Financial Reporting
Custom KPI dashboards and reporting beyond the standard monthly statements.
Ready to talk about vendor management & contract review?
A free 20-minute consultation, no obligation.