08/21/2026
Spend management for DSOs: 6 Sources of Rogue Spending 🚨
“In a DSO, rogue spend is unusually hard to see because it is distributed. It does not arrive as one large unauthorized purchase that a controller would flag. It arrives as hundreds of small, reasonable-looking orders spread across locations, each one under the threshold that would in other cases trigger a second look.
That is why it should be considered an overarching spend management problem versus an individual issue. You cannot approve your way out of spending you never see.
The first step is knowing where to look, and in a multi-location group, the same handful of gaps show up again and again while being that much harder to trace.”
Read more: https://www.methodusa.com/resources/spend-management-for-dsos-6-sources-of-rogue-spending