ART - California State University System Leveraging Spend 2012

The document discusses how California's State University System (CSU) has successfully completed the first phase of a project to leverage systemwide spend and deliver savings on goods and services. CSU engaged Spikes Cavell Analytic Inc. to collect and analyze spend data from the accounts payable system used by the 23 campuses and the Chancellor's Office. The data transformation phase is complete and $3 million in early cooperative savings has been identified. Spikes Cavell has now begun deploying its online spend and contract analytics tools to help the procurement functions at each campus analyze their spend and identify further savings. The document also mentions that in both public and private sectors, spend, contract, and pricing data is often incomplete and distributed across different systems, making analysis and management difficult. Spikes Cavell's tools were developed to address this challenge. The document concludes by mentioning that CSU is already identifying opportunities for collaboration and savings. Additionally, there is a section advertising a website called PSS, which offers competitively solicited contracts for various products and services.