Procurement & Sourcing
Procurement excellence enables increased efficiency, better contract management, improved supplier relationships, reduced risks, and more strategic sourcing to reduce costs, improve quality and create value through supplier led innovation. Our team of experts has extensive experience in identifying areas for improvement, developing, and implementing procurement transformation strategies and technologies, and helping organisations achieve lasting results.
Optimising procurement requires experts who can drive commercial excellence, supported by the right processes, systems and practices to improve efficiency, reduce costs and better meet the business needs of the organisation.
Cost Reduction (Directs & Indirects)
We work with organisations to identify and implement strategies to reduce direct and indirect costs, while maintaining or improving performance, to support the delivery of business, financial and sustainability goals.
Category Management
We work with clients to develop and implement strategic, agile methodology to create and implement category plans and strategies that align internal business needs with external capabilities for long term success. We help organisations create tailored, creative category strategies that are aligned to corporate goals driving greater value and innovation, as well as reducing supplier risk.
Supplier Management
We help organisations create long-term, sustainable value from supplier relationships. By fostering collaboration, we strengthen and deepen trust, enhance performance, stimulate ideas and drive business growth.
Margin & Revenue Enhancement
We help retailers enhance margins and revenue by providing data driven insights into pricing and promotion performance. Our services ensure COGS and supplier income is competitively managed through optimisation of product ranges. We explore opportunity for efficiencies across all aspects of the retail value chain, ensuring complete alignment to customer needs.
Procurement Transformation
We partner with our clients to design and deliver programmes transforming the procurement operating model from organisation design, processes and systems to team culture and capabilities. As a result, goods and services can be sourced efficiently & effectively and cost & risk reduced, creating the right environment for ongoing supplier-led innovation.
Procurement Capability Development
We assess, design and build blended learning pathways tailored to your procurement needs, including Category Management strategy development, negotiation and storytelling to engage business stakeholders. Our programmes include skills matrix development and encompass a comprehensive range of technical procurement and behavioural skills.
Sustainable Procurement
We help organisations establish appropriate sustainability goals, including reporting requirements, as part of their functional procurement vision. We work with clients to support the development of category and supplier strategies to meet those goals, ethically, environmentally and economically.
Digital Procurement
We partner with organisations to design, build, optimise or deploy their digital procurement architecture. Our services span the source-to-pay lifecycle in both enterprise and best-in-breed solution delivery.