• Our Proposition:

If you are a supplier to today’s large corporations you will be familiar with the relentless pressure that can be exerted on ‘you’, their supplier, to continuously drive down cost, often under the banner of ‘Partnership’. To the SME this pressure can often feel anything but a partnership, one sided and placing serious pressure on margins.

Purchasing Practice can help your organisation manage these pressures by developing collaborative strategies, and applying the same procurement capabilities as your larger customers, to reduce cost and add value, both up and down the supply chain.

However limited your scale and potential for leverage, our unique purchasing expertise can be utilised to help you reduce costs, buy better and compete more effectively for your customers business.

• Working with you:

We will carry out a diagnostic of what you buy and how you buy it. Using the information we collect from your organization we will analyze your spend and identify potential opportunities for cost reduction or improvement.

We will identify where you are exposed to unacceptable risk or terms and we will provide meaningful plans as to how you can implement more effective spend management strategies in your organization. We will also review the systems you use for purchasing and your purchasing team.

Following a diagnostic or agreement of a specific project we will jointly deliver savings by putting in place new sourcing arrangements and negotiating improved terms and cost for your high spend areas and key suppliers.

• Organization & Capability Assessment:

We will assess your current purchasing function in the context of your business and any future aims and aspirations and identify what is working well and where the opportunities to improve and develop the operation lie. This will include competency assessment of your purchasing team, review of the processes you use and the development of a ‘future state’ vision.