Purchasing Transformation

The following summary outlines the stages of a typical purchasing transformation programme:

  1. Using an electronic copy of your purchase ledger for the last 12 months we will start by categorising the last 12 months expenditure across the organisation.


  2. We will then analyse and categorise the information by commodity area.


  3. Within each commodity area we will identify the 'best in Class' suppliers (usually, but not exclusively from your existing supplier base) who deliver quality as well as value for money.


  4. This leads to an opportunity assessment or forecast which we will present to the board.


  5. On acceptance of the forecast we will produce and implement a detailed, yet focused purchasing programme.
Throughout the project, we will pay particular attention to developing the key strengths of the purchasing team and ensure a longer term purchasing strategy is developed.

We take great care to communicate regularly throughout the organisation, thus minimising any disruption or concerns that employees may have.

 

Typically we will deliver a programme which will lead to savings in the region of 5 to 10% of turnover.

 

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