Procurement Training

Our expertise Our approach can be applied across direct and indirect spend, capital and project expenditure, and can be extended across geographical and business unit boundaries. Your procurement upskilling solution Most procurement functions fail to optimize their talent potential. They are either too small, lacking the skills needed to operate as a strategic procurement function […]

Supplier Performance Management

There are huge commercial and business advantages to adopting a collaborative approach to key strategic suppliers. Creating a system that will maintain and develop critical supplier relationships is not straightforward. Often what passes for Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) is a patchwork of inconsistent initiatives, unduly dependent on individual managers. Bareki’s SRM methodology is proven across […]

Strategic Sourcing

Bareki’s Strategic Sourcing service provides a rigorous and disciplined process for category and commodity organisation which drives cost savings and improves supplier service. Cost reduction programmes need an organisation-wide, strategic focus to be successful and sustainable. Restrictions can be due to: Procurement being fragmented across businesses, operations and locations Procurement itself being viewed as a […]

Spend Analytics

Bareki Spend Analytics uses our own Procurement technology, tools and methodology to collate and present vast amounts of data in a meaningful way. Data is often distributed between a large number of financial and ERP systems, across many different geographical and business entities. Purchasing activity itself may be widely distributed and can include significant unofficial, […]

Procurement Transformation

Bareki’s Procurement Transformation service delivers a step-change in your procurement performance in support of the business strategy. We rapidly identify issues in your existing Procurement organisation, provide significant and sustained benefits delivery, and a pipeline for future procurement improvement through the adoption of best practice approaches to Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) and Category […]

Procurement Programme Management

Transforming a Procurement organisation into a value-creating strategic partner is an ongoing process that requires the structured approach provided by Procurement Programme Management. Managing a procurement transformation programme is a complex process involving the coordination of multiple stakeholders and functions, often with competing interests and activities. Bareki’s PMO service will ensure your transformation team maintains […]

Procurement Effectiveness Diagnostic

Bareki’s Procurement Effectiveness Diagnostic delivers a road map for improving the effectiveness of your Procurement organisation. We will help you become a strategic partner not just in cost management but in value creation through the introduction of new structures, strategies, processes and technologies. Our road map is based on an analysis of the following 10 […]

Opportunity Assessment

Opportunity Assessment provides the ideal introduction to and launch pad for a range of procurement improvement activities. It is aimed at the CEO, CFO, or CPO who is looking to make a step-change in procurement performance. Often, recognising where this step-change is to be found can be challenging. An Opportunity Assessment by Bareki will give […]

Logistics & Network Optimisation

Rising costs and increasing client expectations caused by the complex, global supply markets in an ‘omni-channel’ world are two major challenges facing the logistics sector. Outsourced logistics services now reach far beyond the spot buying of transport: from warehousing to order processing, inventory management, packaging, kitting or final assembly, and aspects of supplier management may […]

Implementation & Category Management

Successful supplier selection and contract negotiation is not the end point for Procurement. Effective Implementation and Category Management throughout the life of the contract is crucial for ensuring the expected cost and value benefits are delivered and sustained. Bareki has evidence that 50% or more of the expected benefits in the first year of a […]