The ability to systematically manage a large and diverse range of material and services suppliers across geographies and reduce spend will be a key differentiator when defining businesses that lead markets.

Our Spend Reduction & Procurement team are experienced practitioners capable of identifying and developing strategic procurement programmes that deliver bottom-line savings. Backed by procurement and commodity analysts we can not only plan but deliver these benefits to your organisation across direct and indirect materials, services and capital items.

Combining talent with leading edge technology ensures that cost reduction initiatives are delivered faster and more accurately. We have partnered with Zycus, a global leader in Spend Management Solutions, giving us access to the latest technology platforms covering Spend Analysis, eSourcing and Contract Management. Zycus technology is in use today in Global 1000 companies including GE, Unilever, ABB, Bosch, 3M, Philip Morris and Novartis, delivering substantial savings with strong ROI.

Actionable Spend Analysis: Our approach accurately captures raw spend data across disparate organisations, geographies and ERP systems and transforms this into actionable analysis. Our team work with you and your organisation to identify strategic sourcing opportunities and developing a substantial pipeline of initiatives and roadmaps that will deliver savings to your business.

Strategic Sourcing: Working with your business managers and the procurement teams we action the initiatives that deliver the savings benefits. We can transform your sourcing processes including use of technology to document, distribute and evaluate supplier responses to RFx events and setting up and managing online auctions. Sourcing events are backed up with access to commodity analysts to ensure supply and pricing structures are understood. We maintain visibility over strategic sourcing initiatives including reporting of benefits delivered to the organisation to senior management.

Procurement Services: Having established strategic sourcing relationships we provide services around continuous contract management, critical to optimising supplier performance and realising savings. We can track and manage contract lifecycles, focus on compliance, monitor and prepare for upcoming contract renewals and negotiations.

Our Spend Reduction and Procurement solutions address the following types of issues:

> How competitive are my supply contracts in relation to the market?
> Management of spend is delegated throughout the organisation. How do I gain control of this and start managing my purchasing strategically?
> How can I begin to analyse spend data when it is held in a number of systems and business divisions?
> How do I manage contract compliance and avoid maverick spending?
> I have identified many opportunities to make savings but don't have the organisation or systems to manage my opportunity pipeline.

The types of outcomes you can expect are:

> Substantial reduction in spends across strategic categories
> Increased spend-under-management improving control
> Reduced procurement processing costs
> Transparent supplier relationships