Spend Management · Procurement Strategy · Fort Mill, SC

Your spend is probably
a mess.
Let's find out for sure.

Preis Consulting cuts through the corporate noise and tells you exactly where your money is going, what it should cost, and what to do about it. No theory. No fancy presentations. A real plan you can actually execute.

15+
Years in enterprise procurement
$B+
In spend managed
0
Decks that just sit on a shelf
How This Is Different

Not your typical procurement consultant.

You get a playbook,
not a PowerPoint.
A lot of consultants charge you for beautiful slides full of intricate calculations. What you actually need is a clear, step-by-step plan your team can pick up and run with. That's what we build.
Everything is grounded
in your reality.
We don't do theory. We don't make assumptions about your business and present them as facts. Every recommendation is based on your actual spend data, your actual vendors, and what's actually achievable.
If you think it's wrong,
call me out.
Seriously. If a recommendation doesn't make sense to you, we walk through it together. We'll explain every assumption we made. If we're wrong, we want to know. This isn't a take-it-or-leave-it engagement.
"Most businesses are overpaying vendors, running processes that don't need to exist, and managing suppliers they should have cut two years ago. Nobody told them because nobody wanted the awkward conversation."

That's what spend management actually looks like in the real world. Not a strategy problem — an honesty problem.

We have the awkward conversation. We look at where your money is going, compare it against what it should cost, and tell you plainly what needs to change. Then we build a plan to change it.

You won't get a sanitized version of the truth because you're the client. The whole point is to tell you what everyone else has been too polite to say.

Who this is for
CFOs and finance leaders who suspect their vendor spend is out of control but don't have the procurement depth to know for sure. Founders who've been signing contracts without anyone in their corner. VPs of Ops who know the process is broken but can't get traction fixing it. PE firms that need a fast, honest read on a portfolio company's spend.
Who this is not for
If you want someone to validate decisions you've already made, we're probably not the right fit. If you're looking for a long-term managed service where we sit in your vendor meetings every week, that's not what we do. We come in, build the plan, and hand it to you.
How We Work

Two Ways In. Same Standard of Work.

Every engagement ends the same way — your team has a clear, honest plan and the capability to execute it without me in the room.

No Function Exists
Build It From the Ground Up

You don't have a procurement function. Vendors have been chosen by whoever had the relationship, contracts haven't been reviewed, and nobody really knows what anything costs. We fix that.

  • Full diagnostic of your spend landscape — who you're paying, what for, and what it should cost
  • Savings targets based on real market data, not guesswork
  • Org design, policy, and process built for your size and stage
  • A step-by-step roadmap your team can execute without me
Function Exists But Is Broken
Fix What's Already There

You have a procurement team — but it's slow, buried in approvals, and not delivering commercial value. The business has started routing around it because it's easier. That's fixable.

  • Honest audit of what your function is actually doing vs. what it should be doing
  • Cut the process overhead that exists for its own sake
  • Rebuild around outcomes — savings, speed, supplier performance
  • Metrics that mean something to the business, not just the procurement team
The Engagement

Six weeks. Clear deliverable. You own it.

Every advisory engagement runs on the same structure. No open-ended retainers, no scope creep — a defined process with a hard deliverable at the end.

01
Weeks 1–2
Spend Diagnostic
Pull everything apart. Every vendor, every category, every contract. Understand exactly where money is going and what it should cost.
02
Weeks 3–4
Build the Strategy
Develop a clear, prioritized action plan. What to cut. What to renegotiate. What to fix. Grounded in your actual numbers, not industry benchmarks.
03
Week 5
Iterate Together
Push back. Question assumptions. Refine. This week is yours — we pressure-test every recommendation until you're confident in it.
04
Week 6
Deliver the Playbook
A complete, step-by-step execution plan your team can run independently. Not a deck. A working document with real actions and real owners.
Service Areas

Where We Go Deep

Whether the engagement is a full transformation or a focused sprint on one area — these are the places we work.

01
Spend Benchmarking
Are you paying market rate? Know exactly where you stand before you negotiate anything.
02
Spend Optimization
Find the savings hiding in your current vendor portfolio and build a plan to capture them.
03
Contract Review
Know what you're actually committing to before you sign. Most contracts have more risk than people realize.
04
Supplier Review
Evaluate every vendor against performance, risk, and alternatives. Keep what works. Cut the rest.
05
Process Efficiency
If procurement is slowing the business down, it's not doing its job. Fix the process, not the people.
06
Policy Development
Clear procurement policy that people actually follow — not a binder that lives on a shared drive.
07
Procedure Creation
Documented procedures your team can repeat without reinventing the wheel every time.
08
Department Building
Stand up a procurement function that earns the business's trust from day one.
tool.preisconsults.com
Contract typeSaaS / Software
Annual spend$250K – $1M
Vendor relationshipNeutral
Primary goalCost reduction
Risk appetiteModerate
Strategy ready
Vendor has 18–22% margin headroom at this spend level. Lead with multi-year commitment in exchange for 15% reduction. Escalation cap is your highest-value non-cost term...
The Tool

Not ready to engage yet? Start here.

Answer a few questions about your contract and get a complete negotiation strategy — vendor leverage analysis, redlines, scripts, and a vendor-ready email — in seconds. No procurement background required.

Vendor leverage analysis — where they have room to move and where they don't
Clause-by-clause redlines — paste-ready language for every high-priority gap
Negotiation scripts — what to say, what they'll say, your fallback at every stage
No data risk — we never see your contract. Your data stays in your environment
No new AI to approve — use the tools already approved in your organization. No new governance required
No procurement team needed — built for operators and finance leaders managing contracts without specialist support
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Pricing

No Mystery Pricing

What things cost is on the table from the start. Tool access and advisory engagements — both priced transparently.

Contract Intelligence Tool
One-Time
Deal Analysis
$199
Per contract
  • Full negotiation strategy
  • Clause analysis + redlines
  • Vendor leverage assessment
  • Negotiation scripts
  • Vendor-ready email draft
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Most Popular
Ongoing
Operator Plan
$499
Per month · $4,900/year
  • Unlimited deal analyses
  • All contract types covered
  • Consistent strategy across deals
  • Priority feature access
  • Email support
Get Operator Plan
One-on-One
Strategic Session
$2,500
90-minute session
  • Live strategy session with Preis Consulting
  • Pressure-test your positioning
  • Contract review + priority ranking
  • Follow-up strategy memo
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Enterprise
Enterprise Engine
$8K
Setup + $10,000/year
  • Custom negotiation system
  • Pre-configured to your risk profile
  • Standardized across all deals
  • Team access included
  • Quarterly review + refinement
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Advisory Engagements
Build
Commercial Architecture from Zero
6-week engagement · Starting at $35,000 · Scoped to your spend volume and complexity
  • Full spend landscape diagnostic
  • Savings opportunity map with realistic targets
  • Org design, policy, and process framework
  • Complete execution roadmap — your team runs it
For organizations with little to no existing procurement function.
Transform
Fix a Broken Function
6-week engagement · Starting at $35,000 · Scoped to your spend volume and complexity
  • Honest audit of what's working and what isn't
  • Spend and supplier portfolio rationalization
  • Process redesign for speed and accountability
  • Commercial KPIs that actually measure impact
For organizations with an existing function that's slow, bloated, or not delivering value.
About

John Preis

"I am a process improver, driver of change, and someone always thinking outside the box — with a relentless focus on the end result. I get things done."

John Preis — Founder
  • 15+ years in enterprise procurement and spend management
  • Built procurement departments from the ground up
  • Transformed bloated functions into lean commercial operations
  • Fort Mill, SC — serving clients nationally
SAP Ariba
Workday
Coupa
Oracle
Jaggaer
ServiceNow

Preis Consulting exists because most businesses are overpaying vendors and nobody is telling them. Not because the information doesn't exist — because no one wants the awkward conversation.

Preis Consulting was built on a simple premise: give organizations the honest picture they haven't been getting, and a plan to fix it. With 15+ years of enterprise procurement experience — managing billions in spend, standing up sourcing teams, and sitting across the table from some of the largest vendors in the world — we know what good looks like.

The work is direct. The assessment is honest. And the playbook is built to be executed by your team — not maintained by us on a retainer. If you want someone to tell you what you want to hear, this isn't the right fit.

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Worst case, you get an honest outside opinion. Best case, you fix something real.

Start with the tool, or reach out directly. The first conversation doesn't cost anything.

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[email protected]  ·  516-662-0377  ·  Fort Mill, SC