Some of the Benefits of Using Executive Interims' - Strategic Procurement Consultants
For a particular category of expenditure Executive Interims' - strategic procurement consultants can typically deliver savings of between 15-35% of total acquisition costs.
Our strategic procurement consultants are also cost-advantaged compared to their peers in the "Big Four" firms. When the big procurement consultancy firms de-layer their senior and middle management it's not untypical for Directors, Executive Consultants and Managing Consultants specialising in procurement to take golden parachutes and make themselves available through Executive Interims - Supply Chain Practice. So not only do our procurement consultants understand the best strategic procurement intellectual property, they have greater expertise than their younger former colleagues, and better interpersonal skills.
And don't forget those expenses. Strategic procurement consultants from a "Big Four" firm will expect to stay at the Hilton or the Marriott and you'll be expected to pick up the tab for the various trips on planes, trains and automobiles, whereas Executive Interims' procurement consultants are more likely to arrive in their own car and stay at the local Holiday Inn Express.
Features
of Using Strategic Procurement Consultants
Strategic procurement consultants use methodologies, like that outlined in our Purchasing Consultants article, and also have expertise in the following areas:
Total Acquisition Purchasing Cost Modeling
- Strategic Make vs. Buy / Outsourcing / TUPE
- In Depth Supply Industry Research
- Strategic Purchasing / Category Management
- e-Sourcing (e-RFI + e-RFQ + e-auctions)
- Category Supply Chain Management
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Generic Supply Base Wide Cost Reduction Programmes
- Bespoke Supplier Specific Cost Reduction Programmes
- Negotiation
- Supplier Communication - including Supplier Conferences
- EC Procurement Directives
- Regional Purchasing in Eastern Europe , Asia etc.
- Capital Purchasing Projects
- Leasing
- Value Engineering
- Supplier Quality Assurance
Improving the Purchase to Pay Process
- e-Procurement
- Procurement Cards
- Expenses Cards
- Business Process Re-engineering
- ERP Module Implementations
- Minimising Non-conformance / Maverick Procurement
- Supplier Rationalisation
Strategic procurement consultants use formal change management procedures to ensure that deliverables are indeed delivered on time and to budget, without any nasty surprises.
Advantages of Executive Interims - Strategic Procurement Consultants
It's often the case that a more traditional procurement approaches leap from the diagnostic phase into supplier engagement, without a more detailed look at research, analysis and strategy development. It is here where the expertise of strategic procurement consultants adds enormous value. In this phase opportunities for using suppliers who have the latest product and process technologies are identified and this enables greater added value or cost reductions to be identified systematically.
Within days of a client's enquiry Executive Interims' - strategic procurement consultants can be inside the business adding value. They don't bring any political baggage, just a lot of objectivity. So that when there's a need to bring in additional resource to address a high profile / value / risk category of expenditure, the approach can be of particular value, especially if the existing team is fully utilised.
Not only do Executive Interims' procurement consultants bring with them the most up to date strategic purchasing intellectual property, they also bring a formal approach to change management and are highly focused on deadlines and deliverables.
Our strategic purchasing consultants aren't looking for permanent roles - so they're non threatening and are visibly expert practitioners who quickly take the ownership, implement the solution & hand you the cheque. In short they specialise in delivering results not just recommendations.
Looking for Procurement Consultants?
Executive Interims - Supply Chain Practice is a specialist provider of supply chain management consulting and interim management services. If you'd like to know more about what our Strategic Procurement Consultants can do for your business, feel free to contact us.
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