Purchasing & Supply Chain Management

Purchasing expenditures affect a significant part of firms' competitiveness in many sectors. The current disruption of international supply chains due to the state of the global supply-customer environment has reinforced the importance of proactive supply chain management and strategy.

We help with ensuring your supply chain competitiveness. We perform comprehensive analyses of purchasing spend, assess supply chain strategy and process setup within the purchasing department, identify potential savings and/or audit suppliers directly in their operations.

Our solution:

Strategic Purchasing:

• Analysing purchasing spend and assessing savings potential
• Searching for new suppliers (material supplies, services, IT supplies) also within the international market
• Organisation of independent purchasing tenders (direct and indirect purchasing)
• Negotiating contracts with suppliers
• Setting up purchasing processes and change management (organizational structure, processes, KPIs)
• Working capital management, inventory management, purchasing planning
• Interim purchasing management

Audit of suppliers

• Strategic and operational supply chain assessment
• Supply chain risk assessment (financial stability, quality, performance)
• Audit of sustainability, quality, reliability of supply
• Physical visits to suppliers, comprehensive audits and recommendations