In short
For most manufacturers, bought-in goods and services are the largest cost in the business, which makes procurement performance a margin question rather than an administrative one. The work usually splits between direct materials, where small percentages matter enormously, and indirect spend, where nobody has looked for years.
What organisations here usually need help with
- Input cost movement passing through faster than it can be recovered
- Single-source dependencies in critical components
- Indirect spend (maintenance, energy, logistics, agency) left unmanaged
- Capital projects and automation programmes running late
- ERP or MRP implementations that never delivered what was promised
How we help
Procurement and commercial support
Direct material category strategy, supplier consolidation and negotiation, plus a first proper look at indirect spend.
Programme and project delivery
Programme and project leadership for capital, automation and system work, including recovery.
Change and transformation
Process and operating model work across planning, purchasing and production control.
Commercial governance
Supply agreements with usable price mechanisms, supplier performance measures and risk management on single sources.
Systems and process change
ERP and MRP implementation support, and the data discipline that decides whether the system is trusted.
Common questions
Working in manufacturing and something is not working? Start with the problem.
Start a briefWhere the work usually sits