OUTSOURCING OF PURCHASING
We operate on supplier consultations / contract agreements concerning your recurring or non recurring purchases
- Where you already have price agreements (including catalogues): We maintain and optimise them taking advantage of our volumes (should you want to).
- Where you do not yet have price agreements, you can benefit from ours.
- Beginning by defining your needs, we accompany your user from the start by creating a supplier base and carrying through to the final price negotiations and contract agreements.
Added value
Guaranteed best price through :
- Recourse to our referenced list of price agreements along with yours
- Compliance with your framework of agreements with your suppliers, thus with your commitments to them
- A systematic process of competitive sourcing
- Simplifying the suppliers' processes and thus reducing their costs
Optimized delivery schedules
- Traceability and transparency of the process in suppliers' consultations (during and after)
- Contracts protecting the client for whom the purchase is being made
- Acces to products, services and environmentally and socially responsible suppliers.
Scope of Operations
Categories of Overheads :
- Consultancy Services
- MarCom, Training, Temp services, ...
- Office furniture and supplies
- Cleaning and safety equipment
- IT equipment and networks
- Low value services
- Journals and subscriptions
- …
Categories of «MRO» :
- Tools and industrial equipment
- Pumps, valves, motors, filters,…
- Industrial consumables
- EPI
- Laboratory equipment
- Industrial services
- ..
At the client's request, total management of the RFP process for a whole category (Cf. CKS Consulting)
Means and resources
- Expert purchasers specializing in specific «categories»
- Market standard software packages for purchasing
- Software modules and reference lists specially tailored to complex purchases, e.g. consultancy services)
- A Business Intelligence tool to optimise supplier negotiations
- Clear-cut, reliable procedures for efficient and effective Purchasing
Outstanding features setting us apart
- Extensive expertise in markets and leveraging tools delivering continuing savings as well as a constant search for qualitative gains.
- Sound knowledge of rules of ethics, procedures and tools aimed at satisfying our Clients and their Suppliers.
- Proven ability to serve international organisations and to open sourcing bureaus (upon the client's request) there, where our stockholders are based, whether in Europe, North America, Africa or Asia-Pacific.
