Discover what’s inside the checklist
Most energy and utility companies still manage contractor spend across multiple sites with shared spreadsheets, separate inboxes and disconnected AP and HR systems. This guide shows what that approach really costs, using a $15M annual contingent spend program as an example, and where the money goes when there’s no central platform.
- A cost breakdown by category: invoice errors, unmanaged spend, HR admin time and rate overbilling, adding up to $345K a year in our example
- The four warning signs of a program without a central platform, from multiple systems with no single source of truth to rate variance invisible across sites
- Why the same role can carry a different bill rate from one facility to the next when field managers negotiate directly with agencies
- How 3–4 days of manual reconciliation per month add up to roughly 40 days of lost HR capacity every year
- Why your staffing agencies know more about your contractor program than you do, and what that means at every contract renewal
