ExpenseEdge is built by StrategicSource, where we’ve spent three decades finding money in categories nobody was watching.
It was not an obvious business. Companies had sales departments and finance departments. Almost none had anyone whose job was knowing what a case of shop towels should cost.
So that became the job. Twenty-five thousand sourcing projects later, we had something we didn’t set out to build: a database of what things actually cost.
Not list prices. Not scraped web data. Real quotes from real suppliers in real negotiations.
Our core program works. Clients stay a decade. One has been with us since 2007.
But it’s built for a certain size of company. If you run four rooftops, a full program is more than you need.
Same data. Same benchmarks. Same certified suppliers. You just run it yourself.
You could call ten suppliers and build your own benchmark. Nobody does, because it’s a full-time job.
The only way to know what something should cost is to make suppliers compete against a number.
We’re on your side of the table. That’s the business model, not a slogan.
Consulting ends when the deck gets delivered. This doesn’t, because you keep the tools.
Technology reads the invoices and matches the line items. It’s fast.
But the reason ExpenseEdge knows what nitrile gloves should cost in your market isn’t the technology. It’s 25,000 sourcing projects and 25,500 price benchmarks no general-purpose tool has access to.
Anyone can buy software. Nobody else has the data.
Based in Minneapolis. Sourcing specialists, category experts, analysts.
When you call support, you get a purchasing professional who knows the platform and the subject matter. Not a script.
