Ramp Metric
Expense Management
Maverick Spend Rate = (Off-Contract Spend / Total Spend) × 100
Maverick spend rate is the percentage of total expenditure that occurs outside approved contracts, preferred vendors, or procurement channels. It represents spend that bypasses negotiated terms and volume discounts.
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Maverick spend rate is the percentage of total expenditure that occurs outside approved contracts, preferred vendors, or procurement channels. It represents spend that bypasses negotiated terms and volume discounts.
How to calculate maverick spend rate
Why maverick spend rate matters for Ramp users
Maverick spend undermines procurement strategy by diverting volume from preferred vendors, reducing negotiating leverage, and often paying higher prices. Reducing it captures immediate savings.
Ramp users can leverage merchant-level controls and virtual cards to channel spend through approved vendors, but tracking maverick spend reveals gaps in coverage or compliance.
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Sync Ramp transaction data with your approved vendor list in the warehouse and track maverick spend in KPI Tree. Link it to savings identification and procurement compliance in a spend governance tree.
Assign procurement ownership and set alerts when maverick spend exceeds target thresholds for any category or department.
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