Cost Optimisation
Spend analysis, specification review and negotiation. Sometimes the saving is a better price. Often it is a better specification, or a consolidated order.
The obvious way to reduce cost is to push the price down. It is also the way that runs out fastest, and the way that most often comes back as a quality problem six months later.
More often the saving is somewhere else: a specification heavier than the job needs, an order split across three suppliers that could have been one, a pack size that leaves stock sitting, freight paid twice because two deliveries were a week apart.
We look at all of it, put the numbers in front of you, and say where we think the saving is — before you commit to anything.
What's included
- Spend analysed by category and by supplier
- Specifications reviewed against the actual application
- Order and delivery patterns consolidated
- Commercial negotiation against benchmarked pricing
- Freight and landed cost included, not treated separately
- Savings reported against a baseline you agree first
How we run it
- 01 You share what you are buying today and what it is costing.
- 02 We analyse it by category, supplier and pattern — including freight.
- 03 Opportunities are ranked by size and by how disruptive they would be.
- 04 We negotiate or re-specify where you approve it, and never silently.
- 05 Savings are reported against the baseline agreed at the start.
Questions we get asked
How is the saving measured?
Against a baseline we agree with you before anything changes. A saving measured against a number nobody signed off on is not a saving anyone can act on.
Will a cheaper specification cost us in quality?
It can, which is why we say so when it would. Where a cheaper option would fail you, we tell you rather than quote it.
Do you charge a percentage of the savings?
Commercial terms are agreed per account. Tell us how you prefer to work and we will put it in writing before we start.