Are Indirect Supplier Costs Quietly Eroding Your Profit?
A three-minute Scorecard for Finance Directors who want clarity, control, and board-ready answers on margin protection.
Most Finance Directors never applied for the job of Head of Procurement. Yet the telecoms renewal, the energy contract, the waste tender and a dozen other categories all land on your desk. Meanwhile, the suppliers on the other side of those contracts know their margins to the penny.
The Margin Protection Score benchmarks your business across four areas: Coverage, Contracts, Time and Board Confidence. Thirteen questions, three minutes, and a personalised category-by-category RAG report you can take straight into your next board meeting.
Built in partnership with Auditel: 30 years of benchmark data, more than 100 category specialists, and over 1,000 client organisations, typically on a share-of-savings basis.
"Over the past 10 years, we have been able to focus on growth whilst Auditel has enabled us to achieve significant savings in a broad range of areas, with minimum effort for our team." Finance Director, Bifold Fluidpower
Margin Protection Score Categories
Coverage
Assess how well your business understands indirect spend, category ownership, and the frequency of market testing for each supplier area.
Contracts
Evaluate your control over contract renewals, out-of-contract exposure, invoice auditing, and the existence of a robust contract register.
Time
Identify how much strategic finance time is lost to supplier administration, firefighting, and low-value tasks.
Board Confidence
Measure your ability to evidence value for money, show a documented procurement strategy, and quantify recovered margin for the board.
