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...
Read moreA European procurement executive
This executive had made excellent career progress, working for large international organisations. His most recent appointment had been the...
Read moreA high flying UK procurement manager
This manager had made excellent progress in the procurement profession and had regularly moved from company to company very...
Read moreA management consultancy relationship
This assignment was a challenge! A large international consultancy organisation was entrenched in our client, and had been for...
Read moreA railway transportation organisation
This assignment was prompted by a serious safety incident involving loss of life. There was no uniform approach to...
Read moreA South African Financial Services Organisation
This assignment was prompted by the appointment of a Group Purchasing Executive, the first in the history of an...
Read moreA supplier of back-office services
The basis for this partnership was a 10 year contract, which could be extended by a further 5 years,...
Read moreA utilities organisation
This assignment was prompted by the merger of two large utilities in the electricity generation and distribution market. The...
Read moreAirline engineering contract
This situation concerned a series of claims made by a contractor. The claims related to specification changes, delays, additional...
Read moreAn engineering and construction project
This project involved a significant long-term capital investment in a Utility. It required planning, design, tendering, procurement, contractual risk...
Read moreAn engineering project in Canada
Our support to this project was the whole procurement portfolio. A complex range of electronic-mechanical and instrument packages were...
Read moreAn 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...
Read moreAn information technology maintenance contract
This was an IT software maintenance contract with a client in the financial services sector. The contract had been...
Read moreAn international aerospace organisation
This assignment took place in an aerospace organisation that manufactured safety critical items for international airlines and defence clients....
Read moreAn international financial organisation
The range of purchases in this organisation included, marketing, media expenditure, facilities management, security (including armed protection of cash...
Read moreAn 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....
Read moreAn 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...
Read moreAsian/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...
Read moreClothing 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,...
Read moreConstruction project management
Our client used a number of construction project management practices to oversee high-value projects across the UK. The usual...
Read moreConstruction tender review
This situation involved a national construction contractor who was very experienced in submitting tenders. We were asked to conduct...
Read moreDispute 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...
Read moreEngineering 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....
Read moreFormulating a cohesive sustainability procurement strategy
Formulating a cohesive sustainability procurement strategy Most organisations are agreed that sustainability procurement should be on the agenda...
Read moreFurniture manufacturing
This project involved the replacement of an old paint spray booth, now requiring state of the art equipment. The...
Read moreManufactured engineering components
This cost modeling was conducted on a range of engineering items including complex castings and forgings. This required a...
Read moreOutsourcing back-office services
This was a public sector assignment involving the outsourcing of back-office services, including, ICT, Human Relations, Property & Asset...
Read moreOutsourcing 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...
Read morePharmaceutical filling line equipment
Our involvement began when the filling line kept failing after commissioning. Our client was losing sales and incurring in-house...
Read moreProcurement 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...
Read morePurchase 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...
Read morePurchase 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...
Read morePurchase of legal services
It is a fact that in many situations the purchase of legal services is less than robust. There is...
Read morePurchase 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...
Read moreRetail distribution centre
Retail distribution centre When the client’s distribution centre was completed and handed over, there were a number of contractor...
Read moreRetail organisation – copy action
It is not an unknown situation for some retailers to take ‘copy action’ whereby they directly copy someone’s design....
Read moreSpecialised design/research facilities
This research was undertaken for a highly specialised engineering company, engaged in the shipbuilding industry. On one major contract...
Read moreSystems 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...
Read moreSystems 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...
Read moreVehicle manufacturer – supplier quality failures
Our client was receiving many complaints from the production line regarding items supplied by 5 suppliers. We were asked...
Read moreWaste 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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