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The best procurement consultancy firm for your business will be able to drive value in the shortest time period.  How do you test their ability?

Because all restaurant “products” are for human consumption, any maintenance issues that affect food storage and preparation can, at best, lead to wasted food and at worst, the possibility of illness and/or legal action.

These are unique features of the restaurant business.  If you then overlay the potential costs of restaurant downtime due to property issues, it is easy to see that having robust maintenance contracts, procedures and trusted contractors are critical elements for the profitable running of restaurants.

So how can companies reduce maintenance costs without increasing risk?

This case study illustrates the approach InsiderPro took with one of our customers, reducing both risks and costs to the tune of £850,000 per year.

We recently worked with a chain of restaurants in the UK casual dining sector who wanted to reduce the cost of maintenance across all properties and equipment used by the group. 

They thought we would be looking to negotiate new contracts. 

Our approach and the impact that we had took them by surprise...

Recent surveys show that many UK businesses are already preparing themselves for BREXIT by redesigning their supply chains in favour of UK companies.

Most consulting firms work like this:

Procurement can and should focus not only backwards into the supply chain, but forwards. Procurement should look at the needs of the customer and create supply solutions that meet their demands.

When we talk about disruptive procurement and the 7 key ingredients, we get asked questions like:

There are 8 best practices all procurement teams should adopt - we listed them in our recent blog (Best Practice Procurement).

Chris Cooper co-author of ‘The Power to Get Things Done (Whether You Feel Like It Or Not)’ interviewed Jeremy Bowley of procurement consultancy firm, Insider Procurement, about disruptive procurement live on Voice America.