Audience · 7 programs · 120 lessons · 40 recipes
Point it at the work you already own.
You know what maverick spend looks like and where the invoice holds pile up. What you need is the system that clears them, running on your own categories, and a business case your VP can sign.
6 programs in sequence, 4 cookbooks to keep on the desk. Every one of them runs against procurement-shaped data: 50 suppliers, 5,000 shipment records, 3,000 invoices, six live categories.
The shape of the work in programs 03 and 04, end to end.
Start where you actually are
Three doors into the same path.
The sequence below is the recommendation, not a lock. What matters is which of these three describes you today, because the wrong starting point is the main reason people stall.
Learn the cycle first
Requisition to payment, three-way match, scorecards, governance. Nine chapters in plain language before any tooling.
start at 01 →Ten years in the categorySkip to the terminal
You know the process cold. Start at the beginner guide and build the context files, skills, and slash commands.
start at 02 →Already running Claude CodeGo straight to recipes
40 recipes across 4 cookbooks. UNSPSC classification, tail spend, Kraljic, should-cost, savings pipeline, QBR.
jump to the cookbooks →The six-program path
Domain, then tool, then the work, then the wiring.
Programs 01 and 02 get you standing. Programs 03 through 05 are the actual procurement work. Program 06 connects it to what your company already runs, which is the one that changes your job title.
| Program | What you finish holding | Lessons | Coding |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 Foundation of Source to PaySource to contract, procure to pay, governance | A worked RFx from spend analysis to award, plus three-way match fluency that survives a follow-up question | 9 | None |
| 02 Claude Code for ProcurementContext architect, skill builder, command engineer | Stacked CLAUDE.md files per category, an rfp-builder and bid-scorer skill, and six working slash commands | 18 | None |
| 03 See Where the Money GoesCategory system, P2P intelligence, savings tracking | A six-category orchestrator, a maverick spend and three-way match workflow, and a savings tracker with the CFO memo | 18 | None |
| 04 Procurement Execution ModelOrchestrator, guardian, pipeline automator | Fifty supplier scorecards run in parallel without contamination, with validation and audit hooks around them | 19 | None |
| 05 Run Better RFx EventsThe long one, six chapters | A market signal library, a scored shortlist, a negotiation brief, a contract register, and a supplier lifecycle workflow | 30 | None |
| 06 Connect to Your Procurement StackProject, integration, team deployment | Your own procurement MCP server, security patterns around it, and a deployment your colleagues can use without a setup of their own | 19 | Light |
| + AC 203: Scale to Your TeamOptional, from the career track | A business case memo your VP can approve, with hours saved and money found | 7 | None |
120 lessons across the path. At four to six hours a week that is roughly a quarter, and each program stands alone if you only need one.
What sits inside each one
01Foundation of Source to Pay9 chapters
The only program here with no tooling in it. Nine chapters across three blocks, with case studies from electronics, food and beverage, automotive, and pharma.
- S2CSupplier management: qualification, onboarding, scorecards, likelihood × impact risk scoring
- S2CSourcing: spend analysis, category management, Kraljic, RFx to award
- S2CContracting: how contracts lock in value and protect the business
- P2PRequisitioning and purchase orders, PR to PO
- P2PCatalog and item management, why clean item data matters
- P2PReceiving and goods receipt, end to end
- P2PInvoice management and AP, and why invoices get stuck
- P2PPayment terms, DPO, and working capital
- GOVThe control framework: approval hierarchies, segregation of duties, audit trails
02Claude Code for Procurement4 chapters
- 1The Context Architect: how Claude finds CLAUDE.md, the global file, three category files, pointing at data instead of repeating it
- 2The Skill Builder: what a SKILL.md is, the rfp-builder skill, the bid-scorer skill, chaining and versioning
- 3The Command Engineer: /spend-analyse, /anomaly-detect, /scorecard-refresh, /contract-sweep, /rfp-launch, /savings-update, plus team distribution
Runs against 50 suppliers, 5,000 shipment records by mode and carrier, and 3,000 invoices for an approval-path audit.
03See Where the Money Goes4 chapters
- 1The Category Management System: multi-category orchestrator, specialised sub-agents, self-correcting loop, retry limits and human escalation, consolidated briefing, cost awareness
- 2Purchase to Pay Intelligence: P2P data architecture, requisition compliance screening, PO pricing compliance, three-way match automation, maverick spend detection, payment terms optimisation
- 3Savings Program Management: methodology encoding, transaction to initiative matching, three-scenario modelling, writing the CFO memo, monthly refresh
Includes the read-only data boundary discipline, so source files are never overwritten and every output is traceable.
04Building Your Procurement Execution Model4 chapters
- 1The Orchestrator: when sub-agents are right, the Task tool, designing orchestrator and worker, JSON state handoff, failure handling
- 2The Guardian: the four hook types, validation hook, audit hook, risk alert hook, hook error handling, integration test
- 3The Pipeline Automator: stop hooks, notification hooks, tiered notification router, Slack webhook, the nightly run, end-to-end test
The worked case is scoring 50 raw-materials suppliers in parallel batches without one supplier's figures bleeding into another's.
05Run Better RFx Events6 chapters
- 1Market Intelligence: ingestion, commodity tracking, requirements processing, demand consolidation, make versus buy, market to sourcing brief
- 2Sourcing Sprint: category context ingestion, RFP package, response template, bid processing, award recommendation
- 3Negotiation Intelligence: system design mapping, intelligence gathering with sub-agents, dossier coding, pre-negotiation brief, counter proposals, post-close capture
- 4Contract Intelligence: data extraction, obligation mapping, the contract register, renewal calendar, intake triage, drafting from term sheets
- 5Supplier Lifecycle: segmentation and stages, onboarding automation, development plans, at-risk detection, exit management, relationship state
The longest program in this path. The worked example takes four unread market reports and produces an urgent RFQ recommendation in one session.
06Connect Claude Code to Your Procurement Stack4 chapters
- 1The Project Architect: what a project is, CLAUDE.md for a multi-initiative programme, persistent state files, the decisions log, settings and slash commands, team sharing
- 2The Integration Architect: the MCP protocol, connecting to a server, anatomy of a server, building the procurement MCP server, security patterns, MCP plus skills for live spend analysis
- 3The Team Deployment Architect: shared versus personal boundary, audit hook, review gate hook, onboarding script, governance in practice, measuring deployment success
This is the one that moves you from someone using AI at their own desk to the person who deployed it across the team.
What you end up owning
Five layers, built in this order.
Each program adds one layer. By program 06 the whole thing sits between you and the systems your company already runs, and it is yours to keep and use commercially.
Yours to keep. The CLAUDE.md files, skill files, command files, orchestrator prompts, and integration patterns you build are licensed for your own professional and commercial use, including inside your employer.
One session, start to finish
Catching a risk flag that also has a contract expiring.
This is the worked case from program 03. It is the combination a manual review misses, because the risk flag lives at initiative level and the expiry date lives at category level, and nobody joins the two.
Set the data boundary
Before opening a file you tell Claude to read freely from data/, write only to Drafts/, and never edit a source file. It acknowledges each rule. Your category data is safe for the session.
Read the whole portfolio in one pass
Six categories come back by name with annual spend, risk flags, and initiative owners. One logistics supplier carries a flag. A facilities contract expires inside 90 days.
Rank by dollar exposure
The facilities contract sits at the top: over three million in annual value, notice period approaching, review required. The logistics initiative is second, behind target with a named capacity constraint.
Join the risk flag to the expiry date
You ask whether any flagged supplier also has a contract expiring inside the notice window. The logistics supplier matches both. That is the catch a manual review misses.
Write the queue, not a report
The top eight actions go to Drafts/, each tagged with work type, owner, and output path. You have a work queue ready for parallel execution rather than a summary to paraphrase in a meeting.
The cookbooks
40 recipes to keep on the desk.
Not courses to work through in order. Reference material for the day a specific problem lands, split into a starter and an advanced pair on each side.
SPENDSpend Analytics Cookbook10 recipes
Classify spend, detect leakage, benchmark against markets, and automate the monthly reporting pack. Start here if your spend data is broadly trustworthy and you want faster answers from it.
SPEND+Advanced Spend Analytics Cookbook10 recipes
For analysts whose data does not hold up yet: four recipes to fix the data, then six to put it to work. Eight of the ten:
- 01Consolidate spend across multiple ERPs
- 02Dedupe and normalise supplier names
- 03Auto-classify PO lines into UNSPSC
- 04Normalise multi-currency spend for global reporting
- 05Find tail spend worth consolidating
- 06Detect maverick and off-contract buying
- 07Benchmark against commodity indices
- 08Drill from a spend anomaly to its root cause
CATProcurement Category Analysis Cookbook10 recipes
Kraljic matrices, should-cost models, savings pipelines, and QBR decks that build themselves. For category managers who want to stop guessing and start deciding.
CAT+Advanced Category Analysis Cookbook10 recipes
For a real category strategy rather than a slide about one: three recipes to position the category, then the operating rhythm. Eight of the ten:
- 01Position every category on the Kraljic matrix
- 02Compute true total cost of ownership
- 03Build should-cost models that hold up in a negotiation
- 04A savings pipeline finance believes
- 05Demand consolidation opportunities
- 06Rationalise the supplier base
- 07Automated commodity alerts
- 08A category council QBR that builds itself
Plan and price
One plan carries the whole path.
No per-program checkout. The yearly plan carries a 14-day full refund, and an invoice is provided on request so the whole thing can go through expenses.
FoundationThe whole academy: every program, the full video library, and the Career Toolkit.
$699/year
Who this is for
Buyers, analysts, category managers, ERP consultants.
The work is not disappearing. It is consolidating around the people who can run agents against it. These programs assume you already carry the domain knowledge, which is the part that takes years, and hand you the execution layer, which takes a quarter.
Do I need a coding background?
No, and only program 06 goes anywhere near it. Every lesson names the folder to open, the command to run, and what to paste at the prompt. You are issuing procurement instructions in plain English, not writing software.
Can I run this on my employer's real data?
The lessons run on provided practice files in real source-to-pay formats, so you can learn without touching production. The patterns are built to be adapted to your own extracts afterwards, and what you build is licensed for professional use inside your organisation.
Where do the datasets and patterns come from?
Every agent, skill file, and dataset is drawn from 25+ years and 50+ Oracle ERP implementations across pharma, manufacturing, semiconductor, and distribution. The MCP patterns in program 06 are the same ones used against Oracle Fusion in production.
Do I have to do all six?
No. Each stands alone, and plenty of people take only program 03 because spend analysis is the thing their week actually needs. The sequence matters most if you are new to either the domain or the tool.
How long does the whole path take?
At four to six hours a week the six programs work out at roughly a quarter. The refund clause is honest about the first stretch: finish the first two modules and if you have not run a live pipeline, take a full refund on the yearly plan.
Expensable. Invoice provided on request, and there is a team plan if you want to bring three or four colleagues so the deployment work in program 06 has somewhere to land.
Start where you are. New to the domain, start at 01. Ten years in and new to the terminal, start at 02. Get access · $699