“What did we buy, what have we used, and who owns the renewal?”
Procurement & Commitments shows contracts, purchase orders and vendor obligations alongside actual spend. Money you have committed but not yet been billed for is shown separately, so it is never double-counted. Renewal and cancellation deadlines have an owner and a link to the contract clause, supplier performance is measured against what was promised, and your dependence on any one vendor is visible — so a renewal is a decision made in time, not an auto-renewal discovered on the invoice.
Rooms you open
Methods supported
Part of Fund & Optimize · How do we plan, allocate and optimize resources?
The pressure
Procurement, finance and engineering each have a different picture of the same vendor. Commitments that were bought but never used stay invisible until renewal. Cancellation deadlines pass before anyone notices, and heavy dependence on a single supplier is discovered in the negotiation, not before it.
What it looks like today
What changes
A renewal calendar
A countdown to each cancellation deadline, with value and owner alongside
Commitments mixed in with actual spend
Commitments shown separately until they are billed
Supplier performance by anecdote
Each commitment marked met, missed or unknown
Decide before the deadline
Each contract as a bar that ends at its cancellation deadline, not its expiry date, with committed, used and remaining value alongside and vendor concentration in the same view. Your to-do list is whatever falls inside the window.
Where other tools stop
Procurement tools give you a renewal calendar. None of them sit next to actual spend, so none of them know what the contract is really paying for.
The rooms
Each room answers one question a leader actually asks, with the view that answers it and the measures that say whether it is working.
A room is a ready-made view that answers one leadership question, built on the same shared data as every other room.
Room 01
“Which contracts need a renewal or cancellation decision, and what shows the obligation is met?”
Contracts with renewal and cancellation deadlines, an owner, the contract clause and proof of completion — with committed amounts kept separate until billed.
How you know it is working
Room 02
“Which suppliers are keeping their promises, and where do we depend on just one?”
Supplier performance against agreed targets, with vendor concentration and single-supplier dependence shown from actual spend.
How you know it is working
Room 03
“Do purchase orders, invoices and actual spend agree?”
Purchase orders matched to invoices, with committed-but-unspent money visible before the period closes.
How you know it is working
Who it is for
“What have we committed to that has not been billed yet?
“Which renewals need a decision this quarter?
“Is this supplier delivering what the contract promised?
“Which capabilities depend on a single supplier?
What it replaces
How it is licensed
Procurement & Commitments is licensed within Fund & Optimize, with Cost Allocation included underneath.
Start in IT, one function or a division. Cost Allocation is included automatically with every module.
See pricingMethods and frameworks
Dotwork does not ask you to adopt a new method. The frameworks your teams run become views over the same model.
TBM
Technology Business Management: a standard way to categorize IT spend and who uses it.
FinOps
The practice of making teams accountable for what they spend on cloud.
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ExploreThe model underneath
Steer, Fund & Optimize and Govern & Deliver all read and write the same Enterprise Operating Model. The first module you license builds the model. Every module after it adds context instead of another silo — and Dotwork AI reads all of it, stopping where the decision is yours.
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