What does your tail spend say about you?
- Jason Roberts, CEO
- Jun 16
- 2 min read
What does your tail spend say about you?
Just like a cat’s tail gives away its mood, your tail spend says a lot about your organisation. Let’s decode a few common tail types 👉
🐈⬛ The Frantic Twitcher:
Unmanaged. Reactive. Buys from whoever’s available.
Tail spend here is chaotic, high-risk, and a compliance nightmare.
😼 The Low Flick:
Technically managed but barely.
Policies exist, but no one follows them. Suppliers? A mystery.
😺 The Proud Curve:
Structured. Strategic. Aligned with ESG goals.
This tail is efficient, cost-effective, and channels spend to diverse and social value suppliers.
🐾 The Vanishing Tail:
No visibility. No data. No clue.
Your auditors don’t like this one. Neither should you.
Tail spend may only account for 20% of your budget, but it touches 80% of your suppliers and just like with cats, ignore it, and it’ll come back to bite you.
At Kaleida we believe tail spend is the missing link between efficiency and equity.
When you manage it properly, you:
✅ Reduce risk and noise
✅ Create savings and efficiency
✅ Drive measurable social value by working with local and diverse suppliers.
Many organisations try to tackle tail spend and supplier diversity as separate work-streams but they’re not. They're two sides of the same strategic coin.
When you consolidate the tail of your supply chain, you don’t just cut cost, risk, and admin you unlock real impact:
➡️ Channel spend to diverse, local, and social value suppliers.
➡️ Track, report, and prove your contribution.
➡️ Build a supply chain that delivers value beyond price.
Curious what your tail says about you? 🐾
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"Finding Diverse Suppliers is time-consuming as the process today involves researching against multiple databases."
Founded in 2019, Kaleida International is a B2B marketplace for Tenders connecting Buyers to Suppliers, and Diverse Suppliers. With a focus on helping the Chief Procurement Office achieve its ESG goals, and alerting companies to new revenue opportunities, Kaleida's fully-inclusive platform helps Buyers find, identify and assess Diverse Suppliers they can invite to Tender.
In 2025 Kaleida will publish £800b in both Public and Private sector tenders for suppliers, and Diverse suppliers to apply to. By increasing access to commercial opportunity, we believe we can drive equality through providing access to economic parity.
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