Procurement & Contract Management Consultancy Services

• Procurement process and organisation reviews
• Strategic and tactical sourcing
• Contract management reviews
• Category management analysis
• Consolidating spend
• Training needs analysis and programmes
• Restructuring existing partnerships
• Supplier qualification services
• Risk assessment – cyber and supply chain

We have worked with a number of organisations on customised projects in order the meet their objectives. Where appropriate this has included post project briefings to senior management to underline performance improvements and future ambitions. These include;

• BP (Procurement Consultancy)
  Reviewed all aspects of procurement strategy – process, systems, roles, skills and measurement. Achieved significant savings short term and identified further savings long term.
• Wolverhampton City Council (Procurement Consultancy)
  Value realisation project – cost reduction delivery across Council directorates by reviewing existing contracts to re-evaluate contracts and terms.
• Buckinghamshire County Council (Contract Management and Action Learning Sets Programme)
  Contract management – improved contract performance, ensuring compliance, measurable improvements and efficiencies, identifying real value from existing contracts. Achieving values delivery across a range of services and Directorates.
• Westminster City Council (Contract and Category Management Training Programme)
  Embedding category management and good contract management – introducing sourcing strategically, driving change and managing the market to achieve overall efficiency and performance for the Council.

In addition to providing Procurement, Contract and Category Management Consultancy services and training courses, we offer a variety of business improvement and management systems training courses designed to help organisations improve their management systems, products and services including:

Leadership and Management training courses – Designed to equip management with the skills to influence and implement change effectively whilst driving continual improvement. 

Six Sigma training courses – Six Sigma is designed to reduce product, service and process variation and achieve verifiable cost savings. Our courses include RSS certified Green Belt and Black Belt training, led by a Master Black Belt.

ISO 9001 training courses – Implementing ISO 9001 allows organisations to demonstrate to stakeholders and interested parties that they consistently provide products and services which meet, or exceed customer expectations whilst adhering to regulatory requirements.