
Intense competition in the marketplace, leading to price and margin erosion means that organisations must continually look at new and innovative ways to meet investor expectations.
In such a challenging economic climate, procurement outsourcing is coming of age. Organisations are validating and embedding outsourcing as the key driver to enhancing their profit and cash flow position.
With organisations typically spending up to 70% of sales revenues with external suppliers, a professionally managed sourcing programme is a key component of survival in today’s business environment. Reductions in procurement costs flow directly to the bottom line.
Optimum supports the cost reduction agenda by providing clients with best-in-class sourcing practitioners, who have deep category expertise across the direct and indirect portfolio of expenditure.
Optimum’s Procurement Advisory service provides expert support for clients seeking to evaluate and significantly enhance their procurement capability and performance.
Our advisory practitioners have a proven pedigree and track record of success in implementing key consulting projects across the private and public sectors. We work with FTSE 100 organisations through to smaller and medium sized companies. In addition to UK based assignments we also serve clients internationally with long term projects recently completed in North America and Australia.
Optimum Click & Save is an easy to use online procurement service for small and medium sized companies, or for low spend categories in larger companies.