WORLDWIDE PROCUREMENT CONSULTANCY FOR ANY ORGANISATION
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day- teach a man to fish and you feed him for life…
If you need to deliver a successful cost reduction programme then our procurement consultancy services can help you do this. We do this initially by doing a detailed opportunity assessment on all or part of your spend and developing a pipeline of projects that will meet your overall company targets. Once we have a list of projects we can help you deliver these projects within the timeframe you need.
Our success in delivering results is based on us getting stakeholder engagement at the right levels, through the use of crossfunctional teams utilising the resources from both our organisations and utilising our Shake strategic procurement and sourcing process.
Our procurement consultancy service has helped our clients reduce costs on key commodities from 10% right up to 70% while improving quality and supplier performance. If you have key time constraints we can work with you to manage these by developing a pipeline of projects that can be delivered in the short, medium and long term.
AN EXAMPLE OF A COMPANY WE WORKED ON RECENTLY ON A PROCUREMENT CONSULTATION PROJECT
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ORGANISATION DESIGN
As part of the procurement consultancy process we assessed the newly acquired organisation’s people and capabilities, developed and executed a plan to communicate key milestones to both organisations, developed a new design for the newly created organisation, developed and executed a training plan for the new employees and worked a smooth handover of appropriate categories to those responsible in the new organisation.
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STRATEGIC SOURCING
As part of this stream we assessed the spend from both organisations and identified a list of short, medium and long term opportunities that could be generated from leveraging the spend from both parties. Key owners for each of the projects were identified and tracked against in order to meet the targets.
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FINAL SAVINGS
The new organisation was finalised within a year of acquisition and key personnel impacted were found new assignments. Supply throughout the transition was ensured and 10% savings on the total newly acquired spend were achieved totalling $5m savings.
PROCUREMENT INTEGRATION PROJECT FOR A NEW COMPANY ACQUISITION
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SITUATION
A major player in the Beauty care business acquired a new hair care company. The procurement consultancy assignment was to lead the integration of the marketing purchases teams, ensure supply throughout the integration process and to realise savings as quickly as possible.
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INTERVENTION
The intervention required work in 2 streams;
1) Organisation design:
As part of this process our procurement consultants assessed the newly acquired organisation’s people and capabilities, developed and executed a plan to communicate key milestones to both organisations, developed a new design for the newly created organisation, developed and executed a training plan for the new employees and worked a smooth handover of appropriate categories to those responsible in the new organisation.
2) Strategic sourcing:
As part of this stream we assessed the spend from both organisations and identified a list of short, medium and long term opportunities that could be generated from leveraging the spend from both parties. Key owners for each of the projects were identified and tracked against in order to meet the targets.
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RESULT
The new organisation was finalised within a year of acquisition and key personnel impacted were found new assignments. Supply throughout the transition was ensured and 10% savings on the total newly acquired spend were achieved.
