Procurement

Procurement transformation to deliver real and lasting savings

Procurement Consulting

In the current economic landscape, CEOs are challenging their procurement and supply chain functions to provide tangible cost reductions quickly and without impacting performance. At the same time technology continues to transform the way in which organisations procure goods and services enabling buyers to make informed decisions supported by live data and valuable business intelligence.

Our expertise

To enable and deliver tangible savings, we help our clients design and deliver procurement strategies which best suit their individual operational needs and organisational maturity. As Business Technologists, we know how to exploit technology to enable faster and more effective procurement and to support collaborative working across all phases of tactical and strategic procurement activity.

Our solutions include:

  • Procurement Strategy and Transformation: Defining the optimum strategy for your procurement function, aligned to your business’ goals. Setting your operating model and defining plans and targets to deliver your strategy.
  • Strategic Procurement: Developing your sourcing teams capability and delivering tangible savings. Deploying Category Management and Demand Management techniques enabled by Business Intelligence.
  • Strategic Supplier Management: Understanding your supplier base, managing supplier performance and working with the critical few to implement advanced partnering and collaboration for mutual value.
  • Commissioning: In the Health and broader Public Sector, working with your staff to define your requirements for products and services, appointing suppliers and managing service development.
  • Strategic BPO and Outsourcing: Providing commercial advice on the business case for outsourcing and BPO for your organisation. Supporting the implementation of the chosen option to realise the benefits.
  • eProcurement Business Solutions: Advising and enabling you to deploy the technology enablers to transform your procurement function, bringing vision and innovation and improving compliance. Rapid deployment of e-tools e.g. Oracle, SAP and Ariba.
  • Procurement Academy: We major on skills transfer and training as part of our approach to ensure that your procurement transformation is successful and enduring.

Our breadth of solutions and experience means that we can embed a consistent high quality procurement capability and service across your business, spanning all spend categories.

Our value

We have delivered over £800m of procurement benefits to our clients.

We employ procurement professionals with extensive knowledge and experience gained through working in both industry and consulting. Our 100 strong dedicated international procurement excellence team is able to deploy globally and to support multiple language engagements.

Our client projects have won numerous CIPS and MCA procurement awards, including Best Public Sector Procurement Project for our work at the UK Ministry of Defence and Best International Project for our work at the Global Fund.

Our team has delivered training and facilitated workshops to over 3,000 procurement professionals across Europe and Asia.