Every hour and every pound a trust spends on routine buying is time and money that could go further for pupils. This panel brings together senior procurement and finance leaders to talk honestly about how they've made buying across their schools far more efficient, and reinvested the time and savings back into the classroom.
The conversation centres on everyday school spend: the small, routine purchases staff make across every site that quietly eat up staff time, create manual admin, and are hard to see and control. You'll hear from trusts who have streamlined all of this, including how they've gone about:
• Cutting back-office effort by removing manual approvals, chasing and reconciliation, so finance and admin teams get time back
• Making the right way to order the easy way, including punchouts to suppliers through the trust's eProcurement system, so buying is faster and consistent across schools
• Giving finance a single, clear view of spend across every school, with approval workflows that keep sign-off firmly in place
• Delivering real savings at school level, site by site, and reinvesting them into teaching and learning
• Sharing the practical lessons from the journey so far, from first rollout to scaling across the trust
Whether you're just starting out or scaling what already works, you'll leave with practical ideas to take back to your own institution
