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Most organisations managing contractor spend across multiple sites still rely on a shared spreadsheet to track hours, a separate inbox for agency requests and an AP system that doesn’t talk to HR. This guide shows what that approach really costs, using a £15M annual contingent spend programme 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 programme without a central platform, from multiple systems with no single source of truth to rate variance hidden across sites
- Why the same role can be billed at a different rate from one site to the next when field managers negotiate directly with agencies
- How 3–4 days of manual reconciliation each month add up to roughly 40 days of lost HR capacity a year
- Why your staffing agencies know more about your contractor programme than you do, and what that costs you at every contract renewal
