Procurement
With a diligent approach to ensuring maintenance of business continuity and quality, we build sustainable and long-term partnerships.
“Best price is not always best value – real value is found in long term and engaged partners.”
Delivering value for our suppliers helps to secure long term investment and ensure maximum value for all parties.
With a focus on lasting relationships based on shared interest and mutual benefit, our procurement approach includes:
- Market evaluation
- Supplier selections
- Implementation
- Performance monitoring
- Environmental and social impact
- Strategic value
Our overseas procurement strategies - at a glance
Market evaluation
Delivery planning focussed on capacity, capability and stability
What we do
- Reduced cost sourcing
- Cost modelling for fees, freight, taxes, insurance and duties
- Legal framework advisory services
- Currency market monitoring for transaction stability and flexibility
- Lead time planning (scheduling and funding of longer term sourcing activities)
- Transportation and logistics – air and sea freight coordination
- Payments, terms of service and supply chain support
Supplier selections
Successful and sustainable supplier relationships
What we do
- Facility audit and standards compliance/certification review
- Capability analysis
- Face to face engagement
- Understand production cycles, capacity and associated timeframes
- Price point analysis
- First phase quality assessments
- Samples requests
Implementation
Quality assurance, compliance and delivery capability
What we do
- Trial orders (small volumes)
- Administrative and transaction management (shipping documentation, customs and payments)
- Sample/trial order production packaging and shipment
- Pre-dispatch quality assurance and onsite audits
- Delivery assessments
- Fulfilment monitoring, quality assurance and reporting
- Order management and forecasting
Performance monitoring
Supply chain improvement and reduced cost of sales
What we do
- Production facility and infrastructure investment
- Supply chain and distribution optimisation
- Stock holding, production cycle management and logistics
- Funding and terms of service negotiations
- New product development support
- Quality assurance monitoring
- System integration, data analytics and reporting
Environmental and social impact
Ethical supply chain management
What we do
- Review carbon costs of shipping
- Assessment of packaging materials
- Factory audits and spot inspections of production facilities
- Local and international regulatory compliance support
- Analysis of variable impacts of production processes on distributed workforces
Strategic value
Reduce risk and maximise investment value
What we do
- Source appropriate partners who can add value
- Maximise product life cycle through product development
- Seek new product development opportunities through manufacturing advancement
- Develop inventory strategies and stock holding plans
- Ensure clarity and definition on investment decisions to support client objectives
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