Your numbers. Your maths. We just add it up.

What is your buying really costing you?

‍Every hour spent on buying is an hour that did not go into making the thing you sell. Type in your own figures below. We will show you the trade-off in plain language.

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How this works

You type in your own figures. We do the math. You see the result in two plain parts. How many units you did not make this year because the time went into buying. What that work would have been worth. Six questions. Two minutes. No sign-up wall on the answer.

What this is not

A sales tool dressed up as a calculator. The maths is open. The default hourly rate is published. The methodology sits in a link at the bottom of the page. If a number looks off to you, change the input. The answer updates. The calculator works for you, not for D1 Advisory.

Why the trade-off matters

Procurement done properly is an enabler. It is the quiet work that protects your margin, your time and your sanity. Most owners are stuck doing it themselves, not because they enjoy it, but because nobody has handed them a way to see what staying in that seat actually costs. The calculator hands you that view. What you do with it is your call.

Watch the five-minute walkthrough

If you want the full picture before running the numbers, here is a short explainer. No slides. No jargon. The same trade-off, in plain language.

How often do you buy things for your business? Please select how often you buy.

About how long does each buy take, start to finish? Please enter the hours each buy takes.

How long does it take to make or deliver one of the things you sell? Please enter a value greater than zero.

What does it cost to make one of those things? Materials, labour, the lot. In dollars. Please enter the cost to make one unit.

How many hours a week does the person doing the buying spend making content for social media? Please enter the social media hours per week.

How much do you spend on social media ads each month? Please enter your monthly ad spend.

About how many of those things do you sell in a year? Please enter the units you sell per year (minimum 1).

What is the hourly rate of the person doing the buying? We have set it at $120 an hour as a starting point. Change it if your real number is different. Please enter the buyer's hourly rate.

What do you charge for one of them? (Optional)

Your email address Please enter a valid email address.

First name (Optional)

Some of this is unavoidable. Buying is part of running a business. The question is whether the trade-off you are making is the one you would choose if you saw it on paper.

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How the maths works

Here is how the maths works. We multiply your buying frequency by hours per buy to get annual buying hours. We load social effort and ad spend into the unit cost, dividing by your units sold per year. We divide your annual buying hours by hours per unit to estimate units not produced. We default the hourly rate to $120 because that is a defensible mid-range for an Australian SMB decision-maker's loaded time. You can change it. We use 48 working weeks and 240 working days as standard. These numbers are estimates based on what you typed. They are a thinking aid, not financial advice.

This estimate uses the figures you entered. We have not verified them. The calculation is a rough guide to help you think, not financial advice.

Your host

Sylvia Luchian

Sylvia is a Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) Member who brings 10+ years of operational and strategy-focused experience in highly regulated environments focusing on:

Procurement Tansformation

Process and Customer Intake Design

Acquisitions

End-To-End Procurement Lifecycle Management

Team Capability Uplift

Team Capability Development And Mentoring

Policy and Strategy

Governance and Risk

Sylvia's core belief is "you learn from the start to the end of your life, I think it's become a healthy habit with a great reward at the end."

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