Why SaaS spend has become so hard to control
SaaS helped companies move fast… until it became one of the biggest, hardest-to-track cost lines on the P&L. Not because teams make bad decisions, but because SaaS grew faster than the processes designed to manage it.
Today, most companies face the same tension: How do you stay efficient without slowing anyone down?
Shadow tools, auto-renewals, unused licenses, overlapping apps, each issue looks small on its own. Together, they quietly drain margin and blur financial visibility.
That’s why we built this guide.
A practical guide to reducing SaaS waste without slowing teams down
What’s inside
A playbook you can put to work from day one:
- The 5 silent killers draining your SaaS budget (and how to surface them before they hit your margin)
- The 4 proven levers that cut spend without slowing teams down, practical moves you can use in 2026
- The 10 KPIs every modern CFO should track, the clearest way to measure and prove procurement’s impact.
- A plug-and-play if/then routing workflow, instantly remove bottlenecks and stop the “too many approvers” chaos.
- A checklist for high-performing SaaS governance, finally, a definition of what “good” looks like.
- Concrete ways Procurement can carry the load for Finance, so CFOs get their time back without losing control.
Everything in this guide comes from real negotiations, real time and financial savings, and real patterns we’ve seen across hundreds of companies.
If you’re preparing 2026 budgets (and even if they’re already locked in), this playbook gives you the structures and habits that keep SaaS spend under control all year long.
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