American philosopher William James once said, "True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those we cannot." The same can be said of savings. Systems are implemented, departments reorganized and processes re-engineered to capture savings, but savings are not true savings unless they can be validated.

At SMART, we not only develop strategic plans, we help organizations execute those plans and establish behaviors and tools to help validate organizational performance. The result is spend management that delivers true savings.

Diagnose – Assess current source-to-pay process, develop roadmap to achieve organizational goals, establish key performance indicator baseline.
Execute – Implement and optimize technology and business processes to improve the capabilities of the people in the organization.
Validate – Establish behaviors and tools to monitor organizational performance and verify that measurable savings are achieved and sustained.