Value Republic offers besides
2Source and
E-Solutions also Consultancy and Interim Management in the area of procurement.
The hands-on approach of our consultants combined with their industry experience allows for the implementation of sustainable solutions for your organization.
Whether you are looking to temporarily fill in a position in your procurement department or you need support in identifying and mitigating risks from a procurement point of view in a M&A file, our consultants will hit the ground running and start adding value as of day one.
Check out our offering and reference cases in order to form a better view of the consultancy assignments we run.
Within Value Republic we split procurement consultancy into following consultancy types:
- High profile interim assignments:
A company can encounter in different stages of its existence the need to call upon interim management in the area of Indirect procurement: set up of new department, resignation of employee, post acquisition,…. Our experienced professionals get quickly up to speed and integrate into organizations while identifying opportunities for improvements and implementing these improvements. Be it VP, director or senior buyer positions in the indirect procurement, value creation is guaranteed.
- Strategic Sourcing tracks :
New to the commercial and overhead spend area, companies may struggle to bring in strategic vision. It is our assignment to document and execute a strategic sourcing process or a particular spend area within the overhead or commercial spend based on our experience while starting from the strategic intend from the client as a company.
- Projects oriented at optimizing procurement processes and organizations:
Process re-engineering within the procurement department can take different forms: E.g. P2P projects, organizational restructuring, centralization,…
- Pre and post merger support:
Pre merger screening of the procurement department in terms of coverage, process standards, contract status,… enabling the acquiring company to evaluate better the commercial value. Post merger support in integrating the acquired organization into existing structure or set up processes and organization where necessary.
- Trainings:
Assessment of capabilities, setting up of the individual training plan, Roll-out of high quality training, skill re-evaluation and individual learning and coaching
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High profile interim assignments:
Request:
European procurement director started off a change in organization in terms of processes and tools. This new way of working resulted in on-boarding of new Associate Director for indirect spend on a European level. However there was a gap in timing between the arrival of the new and the departure date of the previous AD.
Solution:
Value Republic proposed a senior profile to take over the operational duties for a period of 3 months and to support further progress on the change program. Key deliverable was to support on-boarding of new Associate Director.
Strategic Sourcing tracks :
Request:
The Company installed a new global role, VP indirect procurement, to leverage its international scale and maximize the available expertise that was scattered through the organization. The new VP had the challenge to move the organization from a geographically focused operation model to an expertise driven model whilst enlarging the coverage by procurement.
Solution:
Value Republic suggested a senior team of consultants to support the VP in defining and rolling out the new organization and processes whilst leveraging on a planned ERP roll out. To enable a self funding principle, Value Republic proposed a combination with 2Source activities enabling immediate savings on the spend in scope, leaving funding available for recruiting new FTE to populate the new organization.
Projects oriented at optimizing procurement processes and organizations:
Request:
At one of the leading telecom operators in Belgium, they had an issue with the follow up of purchase orders and wanted to have a reporting that allowed them to pinpoint where it went wrong so they could act on it and improve it.
Solution:
we have revisited the entire Procure to Pay process, starting with a root cause analysis through a PDCA (Problem, DO, Check, Act) analysis. This has been the base for a next stream of workgroups looking at different elements of the process in the area of Business Users, Procurement and Accounts Payable. A dashboard has been developed in order to track the evolution and improvement of the main KPI’s, providing management a high level and individual view on company and department performance.
Case Pre & Post Merger Consultancy
Request:
A leading, global private equity and investment advisory firm was in the process of taken over a number of assets from a large multinational organization when it called on our services to support them in identifying the risk as well as the next steps with the current supplier base.
Solution:
For each of the spend areas we analyzed the existing contracts in order to identify the supply risk from a change of ownership perspective. We also assisted the company in developing a sourcing plan for the different categories as well as provided supplier market information and benchmarked the existing contracts against industry and market standards in terms of price and general conditions.
We work with the client, not for the client: it is crucial that a consultancy project results in an organization with increased maturity in the domain of the project that our departure doesn’t impact the further progress of the company.