Procurement is Changing Let Inprova show you how
Inprova is different
A partnership with Inprova will deliver a profoundly different experience to your business – and have a profound effect on your bottom line. Through our procurement expertise, we will transform your business performance, delivering real commercial benefits by strategically aligning your procurement function and supply chain with your corporate objectives.
When you work with Inprova, you do more than engage a consultancy. You gain a delivery partner which brings with it 20 years’ experience of global procurement expertise, providing a range of high quality services and making a meaningful difference to your purchasing performance. We deliver change, transforming procurement strategy and creating innovative, bespoke solutions that are unique to your business.
This will form the foundation upon which we will help you build greater efficiency, improved competitiveness, enhanced speed to market and, ultimately, a material and sustainable improvement to your financial performance.
Using all our experience, creativity and market intelligence, we will put you in control, transforming your suppliers from arms-length, tactical resources to become key strategic assets.
In the current economic climate, business challenges are tougher than ever: shrinking budgets and pressure on bottom lines and resources are forcing organisations to change the way they do business. In addition, organisations are now spending up to two thirds of their cost base with third party suppliers.
Operating globally across the public and private sectors, we have the scale and expertise to deliver insights that enable strategic change, liberating your business and allowing you to be agile and focus on what you do best.
Put simply, the effectiveness of your supply chain can define your success in the marketplace. An investment of this significance needs to be fully integrated into your corporate strategy if you are to get the most out of it.
Feel the difference that Inprova can make. See the growth in your bottom line. Experience the benefits of procurement transformation. Paul Kennedy Group Chief Executive
Who we are Inprova is a strategic partner that will help you to reduce costs and increase profits. We have the expertise and insight to change the way our customers manage procurement, delivering a service that will ensure your organisation is best in class. We will help you to identify improvements in the procurement process that will fit into your corporate strategy and revolutionise your operation through changing the way you manage your cost base and do business with your suppliers, creating long-term value.
Delivering value Inprova is different. Our focus is on delivering results. With 20 years’ experience of transforming organisations in the public, private and third sectors, we work across the UK, Europe and the United States, understanding our partners and their specialist markets. We will forge a sustainable, long-term partnership with you, looking to drive value and mitigate risk from your supply chain. Through our approach, procurement will change from a service that is focused on transactional buying to an integral tool that improves your organisation and which becomes a key driver in the success of your business.
What we do We make your organisation better – for the long-term. Through delivering measurable improvements in procurement and acting as a catalyst that changes your relationship with suppliers, we deliver a sustainable impact. Our team of experts will forensically examine your business in order to deliver true transformation and drive value, boosting efficiency, reducing costs and giving you the freedom to do what you do best and deliver for your customers. We do not look at you in isolation. We analyse your business in the context of the market, your competitors and the ever-changing landscape in which you operate, helping you become best in class and making sure you remain in that position.
Transforming procurement At Inprova, we do more. We do not simply look for a one-sizefits-all, low-cost solution. We get to know your business, your culture, the markets in which you work and your needs so we can deliver real added value and create a long-term impact on your bottom line. Inprova will transform your organisation by repositioning your procurement function, empowering your people and changing the way they do business with suppliers – we will put you in control.
A typical organisation spends over 50% of its revenue on procured goods and services and any reduction in that spend has a direct impact in improving bottom-line profitability.
Using the knowledge that we have gained from our partnership with you alongside our creativity, expertise, experience and market intelligence, we will convert your suppliers from armslength, tactical resources to become key strategic assets. As a catalyst for change, Inprova will help you to optimise your spend and your supply chain, driving bottom line benefit.
Building partnerships We will apply our market intelligence to develop supply chains which not only meet your current needs but which are able to anticipate your future needs and have the capacity and expertise to deliver ongoing commercial benefits as your business grows. After we have sourced the right partners for you, we will help you to make the most of new opportunities. We will ensure that your cost base is optimised but, more than that, we will help to craft an operating model that drives continuous efficiency improvements. We will empower you to have improved confidence and control. We will create systems and processes that mitigate risk. We will give you the tools with which to become swifter and more agile. By leveraging third party resources and drawing on the economies of scale that we can bring across a broad range of spend categories, we will achieve improved pricing, quality and efficiency. Our relationship with you and your suppliers along with our category expertise will deliver this quickly and seamlessly.
Strategic control Your partnership with Inprova will drive collaboration with your suppliers, putting you in control. This gives you complete visibility of the process and allows you to manage the supply chain in line with corporate objectives in order to achieve a range of commercial benefits, from reducing cost to positioning your organisation as best in class. Inprova understands that whatever stage of procurement maturity your organisation is at, we can offer a tailored solution that will deliver a strong return on investment. It is critical to be aware of what stage your organisation is at to address skill, process and technology to transform your business to the level of procurement maturity that is right for you.
Emphasis on Speed Purchasing Effectiveness (S)
Internal Focus
Emphasis on Competitive Advantage External Focus
Time Transaction • Reactive • Administrative
Price
Total Cost
• Cost focus • Cross functional • Leverage administration • Process orientation • Supportive
Strategic Procurement
Value Management
• B2B Alliance • Innovation • Market Intelligence • Value • Managed Relationships • Facilitation of networks • Business Partner
Top procurement teams deliver more than seven times return on investment.
Characteristics of procurement transformation Best performing organisations achieve significant bottom-line savings by leveraging the competencies, sourcing and category management skills that you often cannot afford to maintain in-house.
Outsourcing
Consulting
Technology
Procurement Transformation
Characteristics of procurement transformation • Realising the strategic value of procurement – shift from a cost-only to a cost+value model • Procurement transformation moves the function from a cost centre to a profit centre • Realising procurement transformation provides a company with a competitive advantage by a lower cost of operation and value creation • Transformation helps your organisation re-focus on strategic areas that have the greatest impact • Transformation enables better market and supplier intelligence; pricing; spend visibility; and control
In order to create a more efficient and high powered organisation, procurement transformation requires a shift in the way procurement works in an organisation. Organisations have achieved this by using outsourcing, consultancy and new technology.
Feel the difference Inprova delivers change in your business by redefining the role of procurement from a support function to business partner, changing your relationship with your suppliers and helping you to reduce your costs. We also focus on knowing and understanding your market and this allows us to drive cost efficiencies and change processes in line with and in anticipation of market changes. Inprova delivers tangible, measurable and sustainable results. By driving strategic procurement and business transformation, changing behaviours and relationships in line with corporate strategy and applying our category and sector expertise, we will help you to achieve improved efficiency, an improved position in the market and an improved bottom line – for the long-term.
With Inprova you will find the complete procurement solutions partner that can transform the way you procure goods and services, improving process, achieving greater quality, driving value and delivering clear transparent savings.
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