Our interventions cover all stages of procurement from procurement strategy through to cost reduction programmes and specific procurement initiatives. Our strategic sourcing methodology adopts a category management approach to the analysis of the business need and the development of the most appropriate procurement mechanism and route to the procurement of the requirement.

This breaks down into three distinct phases:

• Research: where we understand the requirements of the enterprise and develop our purchase price and cost models of the production or services processes involved.
  
  
• Evaluate: where we review the current purchaser and supplier approaches and identify the scope to make changes that would offer benefit.
  
  
• Deploy: this is the stage where change management is important and where we need to negotiate internally and externally to develop the implementation plan and drive through the necessary changes to deliver the benefits identified.