Procurement & Supply Chain / Sourcing
Maverick Spend ~ (aliases: off-contract spend, off-catalog spend, non-PO/no-PO spend, rogue spend, tail spend)
Purchasing that went around the approved supplier, contract, or process.
The fork, why two teams get different numbers
Three different "off"s get called maverick.
In the Metric Library
- The full fork, both definitions worked all the way through
- The trap that makes the number lie, on a real export
- Every formula variant, spelled out
- The reconciliation anchor, what to tie it to and when to refuse
Reference: ISM