Tailspend Savings

No time to generate tail-spend savings?

Lio agents create supplier competition and negotiate every quote in the tail, by email, within the rules you set. Savings scale without adding buyers.

Lio is trusted by 175+ of the largest global enterprises across all industiries

Lio is trusted by 175+ of the largest global enterprises across all industiries

Lio is trusted by 175+ of the largest global enterprises across all industiries

Why the tail never gets negotiated

Most of your transactions sit in the tail: office supplies, MRO items, spot buys, one-off services. Each one is too small to justify a buyer's time. Together they add up to millions in spend that nobody negotiates.

Most of your transactions sit in the tail: office supplies, MRO items, spot buys, one-off services. Each one is too small to justify a buyer's time. Together they add up to millions in spend that nobody negotiates.

Too small to source

A single spot buy doesn't justify an RFQ, so it goes to the first supplier that answers.

One quote, no competition

Without alternative bids, the supplier sets the price.

Negotiation doesn't scale

Buyers negotiate the big contracts. Thousands of small quotes are accepted as they arrive.

How we get every quote negotiated

How we get every quote negotiated

Two agents work the tail together: one creates competition, one negotiates. Your buyers are notified when a result is ready.

Two agents work the tail together: one creates competition, one negotiates. Your buyers are notified when a result is ready.

Tailspend sourcing agent

Runs multi-supplier price requests, structures the responses, compares them line by line and picks the best supplier on total value, not just price

Runs multi-supplier price requests, structures the responses, compares them line by line and picks the best supplier on total value, not just price. Your team is notified once all bids are ready for review.

Tailspend negotiation agent

Flags overpriced quotes across all orders, benchmarks them against your purchase history and market rates, and.

Flags overpriced quotes across all orders, benchmarks them against your purchase history and market rates, and negotiates with the supplier by email towards your price and payment-term targets.

Your guardrails

You set targets, benchmarks, escalation points and tone per supplier and category.

You set targets, benchmarks, escalation points and tone per supplier and category. The agent stays inside them and hands anything outside to your buyer.

Suppliers just reply to an email

No portal and no new tool.

No portal and no new tool. Suppliers negotiate in the channel they already use, in their own language.

From repeat buys to contracts

When the same demand keeps coming back, Lio flags it as a candidate for a framework agreement instead of negotiating it again and again

When the same demand keeps coming back, Lio flags it as a candidate for a framework agreement instead of negotiating it again and again.

Lio's human-in-the-loop approach

To build trust between buyer and agent, we start with your team reviewing every email the agent sends, and set clear thresholds until it acts on its own.

To build trust between buyer and agent, we start with your team reviewing every email the agent sends, and set clear thresholds until it acts on its own.

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Tail-spend baseline

We map where your unmanaged spend sits: suppliers, categories, plants, direct and indirect, catalog misses and free-text POs. Exceptions and thresholds are confirmed with your buyers.

From Lio-led deployment to client-owned capability

We map where your unmanaged spend sits: suppliers, categories, plants, direct and indirect, catalog misses and free-text POs. Exceptions and thresholds are confirmed with your buyers.

Tail-spend baseline

We map where your unmanaged spend sits: suppliers, categories, plants, direct and indirect, catalog misses and free-text POs. Exceptions and thresholds are confirmed with your buyers.

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Agent rollout

The negotiation agent is configured per supplier and category: targets, benchmarks, escalation points, tone. It starts on small quotes, with your buyer approving every counteroffer.

From Lio-led deployment to client-owned capability

The negotiation agent is configured per supplier and category: targets, benchmarks, escalation points, tone. It starts on small quotes, with your buyer approving every counteroffer.

Agent rollout

The negotiation agent is configured per supplier and category: targets, benchmarks, escalation points, tone. It starts on small quotes, with your buyer approving every counteroffer.

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Raise the ceiling

Once the agent has proven itself at a low threshold, you decide when to raise it, for example from €5k to €50k.

From Lio-led deployment to client-owned capability

Once the agent has proven itself at a low threshold, you decide when to raise it, for example from €5k to €50k.

Raise the ceiling

Once the agent has proven itself at a low threshold, you decide when to raise it, for example from €5k to €50k.

What Lio customers see

What Lio customers see

additional cost savings through sourcing and negotiation

10%

additional cost savings through sourcing and negotiation

10%

reduction in operational procurement workload

85%

reduction in operational procurement workload

85%

users work with Lio

1M+

users work with Lio

1M+

Stop experimenting with AI and start working with it.

Lio creates Value on day one.

In collaboration with Lio, we are redefining the future of Purchasing.

Andreas Schick

Chief Operating Officer, Schaeffler

In collaboration with Lio, we are redefining the future of Purchasing.

Andreas Schick

Chief Operating Officer, Schaeffler

Security standards for agentic procurement

The infrastructure, controls, and safeguards that protect data, access, and execution across every Lio deployment.

Security standards for agentic procurement

The infrastructure, controls, and safeguards that protect data, access, and execution across every Lio deployment.

Security standards for agentic procurement

The infrastructure, controls, and safeguards that protect data, access, and execution across every Lio deployment.

Lio interface visual showing agentic procurement workflows.

Find the savings in your tail.

Share a month of low-value POs. We'll show you where the agents would create competition and negotiate.

Put agentic procurement into production.

Share a month of low-value POs. We'll show you where the agents would create competition and negotiate.

Put agentic procurement into production.

Share a month of low-value POs. We'll show you where the agents would create competition and negotiate.