Build the internal business case for EvaluationsHub.
Everything you need to bring EvaluationsHub to your CFO, CPO, or executive committee. A framework, mid-market benchmarks, and a proposal structure you can adapt to your organisation.
What is on this page
A structured toolkit for the person inside your organisation building the case for EvaluationsHub. Use it end to end, or lift the parts that fit your internal template.
Cost of the status quo
Where mid-market procurement teams lose time, spend, and control today.Benefit categories
Five value drivers with mid-market benchmarks you can reference.ROI framework
A worked example with adjustable inputs for a 400 supplier scope.Proposal structure
A seven part outline you can drop into your internal template.Vendor credibility
Security, references, and academic foundations for your appendix.The cost of the status quo
Most mid-market procurement teams manage 150 to 1,500 suppliers with a combination of spreadsheets, shared drives, email threads, and quarterly ERP exports. That creates real, quantifiable cost.
- Manual scorecard preparation 8 to 15 hours per category manager, per quarter, spent pulling data from ERP, quality systems, and mailboxes into spreadsheets.
- Slow CAPA closure Median 47 days between a supplier issue being logged and a corrective action being closed. No structured follow-up cadence.
- Renewal and category leakage 3 to 7 percent of category spend at risk from auto-renewals, non-compliant sourcing, and missed contract windows.
- Audit preparation overhead 40 to 80 hours of ad-hoc work per audit cycle to assemble supplier evidence, questionnaires, and performance history.
- Fragmented supplier records 20 to 35 percent supplier data drift year over year across sourcing, quality, ESG, and finance systems.
- Single point of failure Category knowledge lives in one person's inbox. Attrition or reorganisation resets the relationship.
Five benefit categories
Where EvaluationsHub delivers measurable value. Each category can be sized against your own baseline using the ROI framework below.
Governance and audit readiness
Structured evidence trail across ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 27001, and CSRD reporting. Auditor-ready exports on demand instead of ad-hoc reassembly.
Supplier risk visibility
Automated scoring across performance, ESG, financial, and compliance dimensions. Early warning before issues escalate to disruption.
Time recovery
Category managers reclaim 6 to 10 hours per week previously spent on data pulls, spreadsheet compilation, and status chasing.
Contract and category discipline
Prevents 2 to 4 percent of category spend from slipping through renewal gaps, off-contract buying, or non-compliant sourcing.
Cross-functional alignment
Quality, procurement, ESG, and finance operate from a single supplier record instead of parallel spreadsheets that quietly diverge.
Institutional memory
Supplier history, decisions, and evaluations persist through personnel changes and reorganisation. Knowledge stops walking out the door.
ROI framework: a worked example
A conservative case for a mid-market manufacturer with a 400 supplier scope. Adjust the inputs to match your own baseline, and use this as the anchor for your internal proposal.
Scenario inputs
Year one investment
| Line item | Amount |
|---|---|
| EvaluationsHub full SRM suite, €6 per supplier per month | €28,800 |
| Enterprise platform fee | €13,200 |
| Implementation, one time | €8,000 |
| Total year one investment | €50,000 |
Year one return, conservative
| Value driver | Value captured |
|---|---|
| Time recovery: 6 category managers x 6 hours per week x €65 fully loaded x 46 weeks | €107,640 |
| Category leakage prevented: 1 percent of €120M, 20 percent attributed to visibility | €240,000 |
| One avoided supplier disruption | €150,000 |
| Total year one return | €497,640 |
These figures use conservative attribution. In our experience, mid-market customers see additional value from CAPA cycle time reduction, faster onboarding, and supplier innovation capture that is harder to quantify at proposal stage. The framework above is designed to be defensible in front of finance, not to inflate the case.
A seven part proposal structure
What to include when you bring EvaluationsHub to your internal decision forum. Adapt to your organisation's template, but keep the sequence.
Problem statement
Specific to your organisation. Which categories, which risks, which bottlenecks. Anchor the case in a concrete recent event where possible.
Cost of the status quo
Your version of the numbers above, using your headcount, spend, and supplier count. The math must be your own.
Proposed solution
Scope of EvaluationsHub deployment, module selection, supplier segments in scope, integration touchpoints.
ROI and payback
Investment against conservative return. Include sensitivity: what happens if you capture half the modelled benefit.
Risk of not acting
Audit exposure, ESG reporting deadlines, single point of failure risk, category leakage that compounds year over year.
Implementation plan
Typical timeline is 4 to 8 weeks to first value. Include your internal owner, integration scope, and go-live milestone.
Vendor credibility
Security posture, reference customers, and the research foundations behind the platform. See the next section for material you can copy in.
Vendor credibility, for your appendix
Material you can lift directly into the vendor section of your proposal.
Reference customers
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