Are You Overspending? Run the 60-Second ROI Audit
If your purchasing lives across marketplaces, email, and spreadsheets, it’s hard to know whether indirect spend is tight—or drifting. Before Q4 locks, run a fast, honest check.
What this audit is (and isn’t)
It is: a quick way to estimate whether there’s meaningful savings worth investigating.
It isn’t: proof or a promise. Think of it as a signal to help you decide if deeper analysis is justified.
The 60-Second Audit (one input)
Run our ungated calculator with one input only—your choice:
• Monthly indirect spend (choose cultivation/processing or accessories/office) or
• Location count (choose number of dispensaries or number of cultivation/processing facilities)
You’ll get a directional estimate of potential dollars you could reclaim when you tighten up purchasing discipline (single dashboard for PO →documents → status) and turn on match-before-money (2-way today; 3-way where receiving data is captured).
👉 Run it here: https://mainstem.io/roi
How to read your result
• Looks material? Book time to walk through your current flow end-to-end—where POs originate, where documents live, and when AP learns about changes.
• Looks modest? Great—keep your flow, but rerun the audit next quarter to confirm discipline holds.
Where teams usually find drift
• Re-creating the same order across tools instead of re-ordering from a single PO thread
• Price or quantity mismatches that AP discovers after the invoice is in play
• Documents scattered across email, DMs, and portals, slowing close and masking errors
How Procurement 2.0 helps (when the signal says “look closer”)
• One dashboard vs. six tabs. PO, packing slip, invoice, tracking, notes—one thread everyone sees.
• Controls,not chaos. License/entity-level catalogs and role-based approvals.
• Match before money. 2-way match now; 3-way in pilot where receiving data is captured—variances flagged pre-voucher.
• Reorder without rebuild. Last approved price, GL coding, ship-to, and terms carry forward.
• Audit-ready by default. Search once; share a read-only view.
What to do next
1. Run the calculator (one input).
2. Screenshot the result and note where your current process slows or surprises Finance.
3. If it looks meaningful, reply to this post or email sales@mainstem.io with your screenshot—happy to pressure-test it with you. If the numbers don’t pencil, we’ll say so.
Bottom line: you don’t need a replatform to get control. Start with clarity—then decide if tightening the workflow is worth it.
