01 Spend analysis and category management
Spend data cleaned into one supplier list and one category tree, categories cut where the buying power sits, and a strategy per category that survives contact with suppliers. Savings are counted the way finance counts them.
In use at a clientFor a multi-site company, our spend analysis agent refreshes the picture every quarter: spend by category, and for each site how much of the change came from price and how much from quantity. The analysis that took two weeks now takes two days. See the agents we build →
02 Strategic sourcing and tendering
RFQs built so every quote lands on one basis: currency, delivery terms, minimum order and specification. Competition made real, volume consolidated where it buys a better price, and awards decided on total cost.
03 Should-cost and clean-sheet modelling
What each purchased item ought to cost, built up from material, process and margin, so the negotiation starts from evidence rather than last year's price.
Our analysts work with Alterna, a procurement platform we built. It reads the bill of materials, identifies each item even when the data is messy, and compares market prices and alternatives from distributors and suppliers, for components, raw materials and active ingredients. Your buyer goes in with a market price and a target price.
04 Contract manufacturer (CDMO) outsourcing
For biotech and life-sciences companies outsourcing development or manufacturing, with a focus on biologics. We act for you from outsourcing strategy to partner selection, contract, technology transfer and governance.
See CDMO outsourcing → 05 Alternative sources and API qualification
Alternatives found and qualified at the pace regulation allows. For active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), we confirm who makes the material and where, check the regulatory file and inspection history, and trace where the starting materials come from. Negotiations are run by people who have sat on the supplier's side of the table.
06 Make-vs-buy, landed cost and tariffs
The full landed answer, with duty, freight, inventory and risk in the number, before the outsourcing or reshoring decision is made. Where a tariff could move, the contract says who carries the change.
07 Procurement operating model and source-to-pay
The roles, approval limits and measures that let procurement hold the gain. Source-to-pay connected from supplier selection and contract to requisition, purchase order and payment, with the controls, delays and compliance gaps found.
In use at a clientOur supplier follow-up agent asks suppliers to confirm each order and its delivery date, flags the ones that have not answered, and follows up; the buyer handles the exceptions.