- Decades of experience on hand to support you:
Many companies may not be ready or have already undertaken a procurement transformation program, and have a strong procurement team with a good track performance record. They are not looking to transform their team or their practices, but are looking to supplement their in-house team with additional capacity and specialist skills (such as category know-how) on an as-needed basis.
Through our Interim Procurement service, Purchasing Practice can provide these companies with the opportunity to tap into our resources and know-how on an as needed basis, for example to execute projects that may otherwise remain untouched. In this way, the client can deliver more without committing to additional full-time hires, and can tap into very specialist skills only as required.
- Working with you
Purchasing Practice is essentially acting as a flexible extension of the client’s own team. We are committed to scalable resourcing, which we believe will be a key element in the procurement services market over the coming years. Our services offer the following features:
- Usually start in days, with minimum recruitment and termination formalities
- We welcome results - linked remuneration
- We bring tremendous experience to address your business issues
- We deliver quickly and consistently
- We will transfer skills, contacts and experience to your team, which will remain long after they have left
- We have sensitivity to your company’s ethos but not constrained by its politics, personalities, or protocols
- We can be given critical task on which to focus
- We help keep down permanent head count
- We are highly cost-effective
- Typical Services
Purchasing Practice can fill in for the loss of a critical member of your team or deliver a specific project deliverable. Undertake Full Strategic Sourcing Projects or tailor a series of activities to your unique requirements.
- Transformation
- Spend Analysis
- Opportunity Assessment
- Category Management
- Sourcing Management
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Mergers & Aquisitions
- Private Equity & Venture Capital
- Small-Medium Size Business
- Interim Procurement Solutions
Practical Benefits:
The benefits of this service are flexibility and scalability, and the fact that Purchasing Practice actually does the work – enabling the client not only to identify, but also to implement incremental opportunities with our help.