Rebuild procurement to deliver year on year.

Operating model redesign

We assess the current shape of your procurement function - centralised, devolved, or hybrid - against category complexity, geographic footprint and internal stakeholder maturity. The output is a target operating model with clear roles, decision rights and service levels.

• Central vs business-unit split
• Category ownership and governance
• Approval thresholds and delegation
• Team sizing, skills and offshore support

Strategic sourcing

For every priority category we run a full strategic sourcing wave: baseline the spend, benchmark the market, redesign the specification, run a competitive event, negotiate the contract and transition to the new supplier. Waves typically run 8-16 weeks.

Category management

Once savings are in, they need to stay in. Category management builds a rolling plan per category - refresh cadence, market intelligence, supplier performance reviews and a pipeline of future initiatives. This is how organisations avoid the "70% of savings decay within three years" problem.

Procurement outsourcing and Procurement-as-a-Service

Where building an in-house function does not make commercial sense, Caventis can deliver procurement as an ongoing service - either fully outsourced or as a bolt-on to a small internal team. This suits organisations under 500 people, private equity portfolio companies, and businesses growing faster than they can hire.

• Fixed monthly fee or shared-savings commercials
• Access to category specialists across indirect, direct and tail spend
• Reporting, governance and supplier management built in

Technology and automation

We are technology-agnostic and deliberately light-touch. Where a P2P, contract management or spend analytics tool pays back inside 12 months we will recommend and implement it. Where it does not, we will not. Most clients recover more from process redesign and tail spend routing than from any new platform.

Where to start

Transformation programmes fail when they try to do everything at once. Our Cost Review identifies the two or three levers with the fastest payback and the highest structural impact, and we sequence the rest behind them. Read more about our approach.