Can you find the saving on the invoice?

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Hey {{first_name|there}},

You negotiate a 10% price reduction, get the contract signed, and add the saving to your report. Fair enough, you’ve done the commercial work.

But what happens if the business keeps ordering through the old arrangement, the new price never makes it into the purchasing system, or the supplier carries on invoicing at the previous rate?

The agreement is there, but the business hasn’t received the benefit yet.

This is where savings reporting can get awkward, particularly when procurement counts the result at signature and Finance is looking for evidence in actual spend.

You can avoid some of that by agreeing how the benefit will be measured before the negotiation finishes. Confirm the baseline, who needs to implement the change, and what evidence will show that it happened.

Say you reduce the unit price from £100 to £90. That’s a £10 reduction on each comparable unit purchased under the new terms. The total benefit still depends on the volume, when the price takes effect, and whether anyone actually uses it.

Try taking one saving from your latest report and following it through to the orders or invoices. Can you see it there, and does the calculation still hold up?

It’s a useful check before someone else asks you to explain the number.

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The wop. savings and value guide explains how to separate negotiated, implemented, and realised value, with a benefits register you can use to record the evidence.

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Daniel