Recurring retrospective remediation after commitments had already been made.
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Case 07 / Prior corporate experience
From After-the-Fact Buying to Preventive P2P Controls
Representative experience from prior corporate transformation and procurement leadership roles. Company, supplier and stakeholder names have been anonymised.
Environment profile
The operating context
- Organisation type
- Large enterprise
- Functional scope
- Procurement, Finance, P2P and business users
- Process
- Source-to-Pay compliance
- Project scope
- Enterprise purchasing behaviour and controls
The case
Challenge, approach and evidence
01Challenge
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A significant volume of transactions occurred outside the intended purchasing process. Suppliers could be engaged before onboarding, requisition approval or PO creation, resulting in after-the-fact invoices, compliance issues and repeated remediation.
02 / Operating shift
From the old model to the new one
Preventive procurement controls applied before supplier commitment and invoice creation.
03 / Relevant outcomes
What changed
Achieved an approximately 90% reduction in after-the-fact transactions.
Reduced the exception workload by addressing the behaviours and controls that generated it.
Proof points / Metrics
What the evidence supports.
After-the-fact transaction reduction achieved
Capabilities
Capabilities demonstrated, applied across the case.
- P2P Transformation
- Procurement Governance
- Compliance
- Change Management
- User Adoption
- Process Excellence
- Preventive Controls
A practical first step
Bring the operational challenge into focus.
A focused diagnostic can clarify root causes, ownership, risk and the most practical route forward.