Consulting

Smart procurement practices can produce substantial savings, increase your control, and reduce your risk and costs. Our experience and range of consulting services enables you to work with GSB when and how you need to. Download our consulting brochure.

• Strategy & Policy
• Expertise
• Tools & Services
• Sourcing
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Strategy & Policy

Procurement Strategy Formulation

GSB will help you move your procurement towards best practice with:

• Realistic and relevant business goals and objectives to help drive procurement excellence
• A procurement infrastructure to ensure success
• A formalised procurement policy and principles, purchasing parameters and staff guidelines
• Step by step implementation plans for projects

Procurement Category & Reviews

A review of your existing procurement practices, structures and processes to understand your procurement capability and create a base for a robust procurement strategy and framework moving forward.

Areas of analysis:

• Policies and practices
• Contracts framework
• Systems and processes
• Risk exposure
• Contract and supplier management structures
• eProcurement readiness review

Sustainable Procurement

Most organisations have strategies in place for meeting sustainability goals. How these influence and alter your procurement process is not always obvious. GSB Category Managers and Consultants implement sustainable strategies as part of their day to day roles. We can help you ensure your sustainable procurement strategies reduce the resources required and improve the efficient use of your resources.

Expertise

Training & Mentoring

GSB can provide training to better equip your procurement staff to improve the bottom line for your organisation. Training can range from one to one tutorials, mentoring your staff during a tender process through to classroom based sessions.

Category Specialists

Our procurement consultants come from a wide variety of backgrounds with expertise covering many different categories in both the public and private sector. Drawing on the extensive aggregated contracts data we maintain, we can assist clients to negotiate, develop contracts and manage suppliers without committing additional internal resources.

Tools and Services

Spend Analysis

Analysis of your spend provides an understanding of where resources are being committed by your organisation, with which suppliers and through which channels. Our approach is to provide a procurement view of traditional financial data. Key benefits include:

• Supplier rationalisation
• Map and optimise processes
• Contract compliance
• Leverage category spend
• GSB group purchasing contracts opportunities

eToolkit

Save time, money and mitigate your risk every step of the way in your procurement process. Our Procurement eToolkit enables you to coordinate and control the entire supply management process online, it's easy to use, simple to get.

Sourcing

Tendering

• Product range and brands offered
• Environmental performance
• Logistics and delivery performance
• Customer focus and support
• Warranties
• Quality assurance
• OSH compliance
• Coverage

GSB can also benchmark tender rates for a diverse range of businesses by drawing on the extensive group purchasing contracts data we maintain.

Outsourced Procurement

Outsourced procurement also allows your organisation to remain independent of the process and ensures a robust sourcing process is undertaken in accordance with best practice.