The Department of Government Efficiency, better known as DOGE, was created by executive order on President Trump’s first day back in office. It immediately became one of the most controversial parts of the administration’s first couple of months.

Love it or hate it, if you work in procurement, you have to watch what DOGE is doing. And if you can’t bring yourself to review their objectives, strategies, and tactics, you at least have to watch the DOGE savings calculator.

Public-facing and deliberately bare-bones, the DOGE savings calculator provides information on savings, payments, spend, Federal workforce, and regulations.

In this episode of Art of Supply, Kelly Barner takes a step back and then a close look at the DOGE savings calculator from a procurement perspective:

Describing the website in detail, both for the information it contains and for what it may reveal about DOGE’s approach to driving change
Comparing DOGE’s approach to savings reporting to what is used in a typical corporate procurement setting
Looking for lessons and ideas that can be pulled from the public sector to the private

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Decoding the DOGE Savings Calculator