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Benchmarking
Horizon continues to build the benchmarking part of the practice and continues to help major UK companies deliver significant savings. Benchmarking is not just about cost but also about process. Horizon has developed a methodology that ensures like for like comparisons are made and ensures key lessons are transferred.

Purchasing Auctions
We are strong bellievers in purchasing auctions which play a part in the value equation. We have our own site at www.purchasingauctions.com. Significant savings achieved for our clients. Free stationery benchmarking service if you are thinking of using our site.

Corporate Fraud
One of the biggest challenges that businesses face today is dealing with the adverse impact that fraud can have on the reputation of a company. If you are worried that your employees and suppliers might be colluding and need help then please get in touch.

Reverse auctions really do reduce costs.
We have developed our own reverse auction site that is really simple for users and suppliers to use. So far savings have ranged from 18% to 33%. Take a look at www.purchasingauctions.co.uk.

Kadi to complete her winter training in USA
As you know we sponsor a promising young athlete who hopes to run for GB in the London games. She is about to go to the uS for 6 weeks winter training having recently been 4th in the European games.

ON LINE AUCTIONS
Horizon has it's own on-line purchasing auction site at www.purchasingauctions.co.uk. We recently saved a client 33% of their prior costs of stationery using our auction site. The client was amazed

£750,000 Saving
This was delivered in December for a client . The client wrote to us saying "that means almost a quarter of a million out of this year’s budget and half a million out of the budget for 09/10. Splendid."

Managed stationery auction
Horizon Associates now offers managed stationery auction from £2000.

Contract Compliance
A recent report showed that only 47% of purchasing transactions in EMEA were compliant with contracts. Horizon has developed a product to support procurement departments realise their savings by ensuring suppliers comply with the agreed pricing.

Transactional Billing Print Benchmarking
Horizon has recently completed a major benchmarking exercise for a FTSE 100 company that wished to benchmark their multi-million pound "billing" print spend against the market.

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Welcome

We are a purchasing consultancy that focuses on helping organisations to become more profitable through better purchasing. We also provide training and recruitment to both the public and private sectors. Our fees are very competitive and we guarantee that our fees will never exceed the savings we achieve for you. In practice we target a return of between ten and twenty times our fees.

Founded in 1995, we have built a strong practice and our combination of senior practitioners and experience of many leading City based organisations enables us to offer our clients a wealth of practical experience coupled with the very latest management thinking and techniques.

Consultancy

Service companies often spend up to 50% of turnover on bought in goods and services. A saving 10% of these costs can transform the company’s bottom line.

We have a unique methodology, which achieves significant savings whilst at the same time improving the quality of the goods and services you buy. Our purchasing transformation projects invariably pay for themselves many times over, to the extent that we guarantee our fees will never exceed your savings.

Training

On-going staff development is critical to long term success. We provide bespoke, focused and imaginative in-house training for both public and private organisations in the UK and overseas.

We also provide intensive training for delegates seeking accreditation of CIPS (Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply), ILT (Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport) and ISM (Institute for Supply Management). Horizon is the approved purchasing and supply training company to the Chartered Institute of Housing in the UK.

Recruitment

In order to help financial and professional services organisations recruit the very best purchasing talent, we provide a range of recruitment services, including executive search and selection for both permanent and interim staff, and we have an extensive high calibre candidate database.

And if you’re looking for a new career opportunity, have a look at Purchasing Job Board.com, our recruitment site