Case Studies

A caravan and motor-home manufacturer

Our client was a UK manufacturer of caravans and motor-homes, competing with international brands. The client had a positive...

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A European procurement executive

This executive had made excellent career progress, working for large international organisations. His most recent appointment had been the...

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A high flying UK procurement manager

This manager had made excellent progress in the procurement profession and had regularly moved from company to company very...

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A management consultancy relationship

This assignment was a challenge! A large international consultancy organisation was entrenched in our client, and had been for...

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A railway transportation organisation

This assignment was prompted by a serious safety incident involving loss of life. There was no uniform approach to...

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A South African Financial Services Organisation

This assignment was prompted by the appointment of a Group Purchasing Executive, the first in the history of an...

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A supplier of back-office services

The basis for this partnership was a 10 year contract, which could be extended by a further 5 years,...

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A utilities organisation

This assignment was prompted by the merger of two large utilities in the electricity generation and distribution market. The...

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Airline engineering contract

This situation concerned a series of claims made by a contractor. The claims related to specification changes, delays, additional...

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An engineering and construction project

This project involved a significant long-term capital investment in a Utility. It required planning, design, tendering, procurement, contractual risk...

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An engineering project in Canada

Our support to this project was the whole procurement portfolio. A complex range of electronic-mechanical and instrument packages were...

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An FMCG food manufacturer and retail organisation

This client was experiencing high growth and extending its own brand into other national brand sales. This required extensive...

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An information technology maintenance contract

This was an IT software maintenance contract with a client in the financial services sector. The contract had been...

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An international aerospace organisation

This assignment took place in an aerospace organisation that manufactured safety critical items for international airlines and defence clients....

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An international financial organisation

The range of purchases in this organisation included, marketing, media expenditure, facilities management, security (including armed protection of cash...

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An international pharmaceutical research and manufacturing business

This assignment took place in the UK operation of an international business, where research and manufacturing activities took place....

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An off-shore engineering contract equipment for a power station build contract

This assignment took place over a period of eight weeks. Our client had tendered and won a contract to...

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Asian/African supply market for transportation engineering parts and assemblies

This research was undertaken for a European engineering group, engaged in the transportation sector. They were losing business in...

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Clothing and PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) manufacturer

This due diligence exercise was motivated by a lack of contract performance. Our client had never visited the supplier,...

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Construction project management

Our client used a number of construction project management practices to oversee high-value projects across the UK. The usual...

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Construction tender review

This situation involved a national construction contractor who was very experienced in submitting tenders. We were asked to conduct...

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Dispute over Contractor’s failure to provide software system support

In this situation the Contractor had a contract to maintain a software system that, if not working, could cost...

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Engineering support services for a Gold Mine

This contract required terms and conditions to deal with external engineering support services to a remote location gold mine....

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Formulating a cohesive sustainability procurement strategy

  Formulating a cohesive sustainability procurement strategy Most organisations are agreed that sustainability procurement should be on the agenda...

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Furniture manufacturing

This project involved the replacement of an old paint spray booth, now requiring state of the art equipment. The...

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Manufactured engineering components

This cost modeling was conducted on a range of engineering items including complex castings and forgings. This required a...

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Outsourcing back-office services

This was a public sector assignment involving the outsourcing of back-office services, including, ICT, Human Relations, Property & Asset...

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Outsourcing back-office services – Public Sector

This assignment was to support a public sector client in the preparation of pre-qualification documentation and subsequent documentation for...

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Pharmaceutical filling line equipment

Our involvement began when the filling line kept failing after commissioning. Our client was losing sales and incurring in-house...

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Procurement and implementation of an IT system – Private Sector

This work was for an international client who required a new IT system to be purchased and then for...

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Purchase of a strategic IT system

This was a high-value, high-risk contract for the procurement of an IT system that drove at the heart of...

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Purchase of an integrated Information Technology System

As with any IT system purchases this had a high degree of complexity. The cost drivers included all internal...

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Purchase of legal services

It is a fact that in many situations the purchase of legal services is less than robust. There is...

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Purchase of steel for a multi-national organisation

In this instance our client purchased steel on a devolved basis at over 30 locations. No strategy was in...

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Retail distribution centre

Retail distribution centre When the client’s distribution centre was completed and handed over, there were a number of contractor...

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Retail organisation – copy action

It is not an unknown situation for some retailers to take ‘copy action’ whereby they directly copy someone’s design....

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Specialised design/research facilities

This research was undertaken for a highly specialised engineering company, engaged in the shipbuilding industry. On one major contract...

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Systems and procedures to control building maintenance expenditure

This assignment was undertaken for an off-shore service organisation. There was no purchasing involvement in the award of any...

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Systems and procedures to control scrap disposal

Our client was a well known engineering group who had never checked the systems and procedures to deal with...

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Vehicle manufacturer – supplier quality failures

Our client was receiving many complaints from the production line regarding items supplied by 5 suppliers. We were asked...

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Waste recycling PQQ and tender review

This client was providing green waste collection and subsequent handling services. Their biggest client was subjecting an existing contract,...

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