Answer the letter with evidence.
Your own history, not the supplier's story.
A price increase letter comes with reasons: materials, labor, freight. SpendCraft shows what you accepted before, what comparable items cost from suppliers you already use, and which of the stated reasons your own data supports, so the reply is based on facts.
What Usually Happens
Where it goes wrong today.
The letter sets the frame
The supplier names a number and a reason. Without your own history at hand, the conversation starts on their terms.
The evidence is scattered
Past increases sit in old emails. Prices paid sit in the ERP. Freight sits on the invoices. Pulling it together takes days.
Letters arrive in batches
When many suppliers write at once, most increases are accepted simply because there is no time to answer each one.
How SpendCraft Works It
From the data to a decision you own.
Step 1: Start from the letter
Pick the supplier and scope, or start from a file. The Price Increase Caddie pulls the spend and price history behind it.
Step 2: See what you accepted before
Increases over the term, from your own invoices. For example: 7% requested, under 3% a year accepted before.
Step 3: Test the stated reasons
If the letter cites freight, check the freight on your invoices. If it cites materials, compare with what other suppliers you use charge for comparable items.
Step 4: Reply, then keep watching
The Caddie may suggest a response. You decide. Keep the result in a Space, and let a Scout report if prices creep back after award.
What You Work With
The pieces involved.
Price Increase Caddie
Works a price increase letter to a decision you own.
Price movement Space
Where prices are rising across recent purchases.
Scouts
Report when a price creeps back after award.
Questions
Before you start.
Does SpendCraft decide whether to accept the increase?
No. The Caddie shows the evidence and may suggest a response. Only your confirmed choice counts.
What data does it need?
Your spend data, ideally with invoice line detail. Invoice Augmentation recovers line descriptions, quantities and units of measure from invoice PDFs and scans when the ERP dropped them.
Can it compare suppliers outside our spend?
It compares with suppliers you already use. There are no cross customer benchmarks. Each customer's data is isolated by design.
See it on your own data.
A Proof of Value works one category or one moment end to end.