„Procurement provides the profit.“ Purchasing from external suppliers represents the highest cost factor for most companies – according to the type of industry between 40 and 70 percent of the total cost. Especially during the current economical situation procurement is therefore often the most important lever to achieve competitive advantage.
Starting points for consulting can be found in operational areas as well as in strategic fields. Starting with defining future products and creating the value-added chain the tasks lead up to defining terms of payment and delivery terms with the selected suppliers.
Typical consulting results in the area of Procurement:
- Increasing innovation through close involvement of strategic suppliers
- Optimising material usage through demand management above the suppliers
- Usage of purchasing advantages through global sourcing
- Implementing efficient procurement processes and organisational forms
- Creating transparency and security of supply through risk management
- It is important that consultants do not act as short-term „cost cutters“ but that they have the vision to anticipate future developments regarding the competitive environment, the customers´ and suppliers´ structure as well as the basic conditions in which the procurement strategy will be incorporated and which will therefore increase the company value significantly.
candidus' expertise
Our competence team Procurement covers the whole range of innovative supply approaches. We therefore offer the necessary tools to companies of all industries so they can master the current challenges of procurement:
- Analysis and optimisation of the core supply processes as well as of the order- and supplyers´ structure for a client from the pharmaceutic industry
- Setting up a sourcing in China and Mexico for an international engineering company
- Optimising the procurement- and supplying functions as well as reducing cost of material at a leading German trading company
- Analysis, evaluation and new definition of the make or buy strategy of a tool manufacturer for electronic control systems
- Development of a procurement strategy with the emphasis on e-procurement for a pan-European wholesaler of electronic devices
- Optimisation of the procurement- and supplying functions and decrease of the cost of material for a company in the field of plant construction
- Redesign of the supply processes and optimisation of the order- and suppliers´ structure for an international consumer goods company
