Working in association with a major UK consultancy, the challenge was to train and mentor multiple project teams delivering production and non-production procurement to deliver savings and wider process benefits.

With an annual spend of over £8m, a supply base in excess of 250 subcontractors the aim was to deliver savings, consolidate the supply base and improve business operational efficiency.

In an IT infrastructure provider to a well know financial services provider needed to reduce complexity of end user computers and associated services worth £1.7m annually.

As part of a cost reduction programme, the business initiated a broad restructuring. This included the procurement, software asset management and commercial team.