Spend Categories

Improve outcomes across every category of spend

Improve outcomes across every category of spend

Achieve more transparency into enterprise-wide spend

All spend, one platform. Manage direct, indirect, tail spend, services, and spot buys in a single place.

80-90% unlocked. Most procurement teams can only negotiate a fraction of total spend. Arkestro brings the rest under control.

3x more spend managed. Handle spend across every category without additional resources.

How predictive procurement works

Data ingestion

Skip the blank slate, regardless of category. Snap a photo of a quote sheet or upload historical POs, contracts, and item data in any format, and Arkestro's AI builds a smart cost baseline for every line item automatically.

Supplier recommendations

Arkestro evaluates supplier capabilities, pricing patterns, and performance across every spend category, not just the ones your team knows best, so your supplier network grows more competitive with every event.

Suggested pricing

Lead with the first number instead of reacting to one. Before a quote arrives, Arkestro predicts each supplier's willingness to discount and applies a data-backed price to every line item.

Game theoretic feedback

Negotiate at scale without losing control. Arkestro runs autonomous, multi-round negotiations across your entire supplier base at once, coaching each supplier individually on exactly what it takes to win, while you stay fully in control.

Multi-factor award

Make the optimal call on every line item, across thousands at once. Arkestro simulates cost, quality, and risk to model the best supplier award, then sends the decision and negotiation trail back into your systems as clean, audit-ready data.

Key capabilities

Expand your reach

Where most procurement tools specialize in only one kind of spend, Arkestro’s platform doesn’t box you in. Multiply ROI by handling direct spend, indirect spend, tail spend, services, and spot buys in one place.

Unlock the unmanaged majority

Arkestro brings AI-driven optimization to the 80–90% of spend that traditional procurement leaves unmanaged due to resources, not just the categories already under contract.

Consistent across categories

The same negotiation, supplier, and process science apply across every category of spend, giving you and your suppliers a consistent, repeatable process.

Scale on a single platform

Arkestro is a proven business solution across dozens of industries and every major spend category, giving your team one platform instead of stitching together specialized point solutions.

Why Arkestro?

The predictive
advantage

Unlock enterprise-wide impact at speed, on a platform that turns procurement into your revenue engine.

See predictive procurement in action

See exactly how Arkestro could transform your company's P&L within a single quarter.

  • 18.8% average savings on spend

  • 3x more spend with the same resources

  • 60% faster cycle times

FAQ

Everything you need to know about predictive procurement, wherever your business runs on spend.

Direct spend, indirect spend, tail spend, services, and spot buys all run on one platform. The same negotiation, supplier, and process science applies across every category rather than requiring separate point solutions.

Traditional procurement leaves 80 to 90% of spend unmanaged because teams lack the resources to run events on all of it, not because the savings are not there. Arkestro brings AI-driven optimization to that remainder.

Most procurement tools specialize in one kind of spend. Arkestro is proven across dozens of industries and every major spend category, so teams run one platform instead of stitching together specialized point solutions.