Strategic Procurement Consultants

Welcome to Intelligent Buying, the specialist procurement consultancy. We are an independent management consultancy focusing exclusively on procurement and contract management.

We work in the private, public, and utilities sectors throughout the UK, supporting organisations with significant spend.

Our services range from Board/Executive level strategic advice ensuring that your procurement delivers your business strategy, through to interim management supporting delivery of specific projects or enhancing your procurement capability, processes and practices. We cover all aspects of the procurement and contract management lifecycle, from establishing the procurement strategy, through managing large and/or highly complex procurements, to strategic contract management. We also specialise in assessing distressed strategic procurements/contracts and developing turnaround plans and/or exit strategies.

Strategic Procurement and Contract Management Lifecycle

Strategic Procurement Consultants

We cover most categories of spend, and our consultants are leading experts in ICT, networks, telecoms, software, cloud services, contactless payments, and professional services (consultancy and legal services). A number of our consultants are also experts on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Where we perhaps differ from our competition is we provide both strategic advisory services and project delivery. We don’t just ‘talk the talk’, but we can also work alongside your team driving the delivery. Need someone to get a project in place quickly, to lead a strategic procurement, or to strengthen your processes or staff capabilities? Our consultants are able to enhance your procurement function, ensuring the savings and benefits are realised and detailed knowledge transfer undertaken.
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Strategic Procurement FAQs

Strategic procurement is about working with organisations’ main business areas to secure the most appropriate core goods and services for them, and provide them with a key source of competitive advantage. It is not about buying incidentals such as stationery.

It helps ensures that organisations are dealing with the market leading suppliers – not just in terms of quality; but also in terms of price, innovation, economic order quantities, stock holding/just in time delivery, security of supply, social value, etc.

By engaging with the market at an early stage, market making where necessary, and ensuring a healthy competitive long-term market drives value for money.

We work with organisations’ senior management to understand their key procurement related challenges e.g. a sprawling supply base, poor terms from suppliers, poor supplier performance, excessive risk, non-compliance, etc.   Using our skills and experience we then help address the issues – but very much working with the client.

Usually yes. By outsourcing a service, going forward that service will be provided by a third-party supplier(s). So instead of hiring and managing employees/contractors – you are procuring an outsourced service (not least ensuring existing employees’ terms are protected, etc (Transfer Undertakings for the Protection of Employment – TUPE Regulations).

Depends on who you ask. Sometimes organisations/individuals will use the terms strategic procurement or strategic sourcing synonymously and/or to better promote/market what they do. For us, the genre is procurement – with strategic sourcing a type of good practice procurement. Ultimately, however, at the top-level, organisations buy and sell/provide things – be it labour, ingredients, components, etc, etc – and then sell/provide value added goods and/or services. Hence the name – Intelligent Buying.

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Please contact us now to discuss how we can assist you deliver your goals.

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