A New Spend Metric: “Touched Spend” — Do We Need It?

One of our Spend Matters Plus clients, a procurement manager in the energy sector, sent me a note asking about a new benchmarking metric that he recently saw being collected by CAPS research called “touched spend.” He sent me the following definitions below and asked me to weigh in on them, given my tenure at The Hackett Group running procurement research related to benchmarking, for sourceable spend, managed spend and also "touched" spend.