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 procurement services
Our strategic procurement services turn your spend base into a prioritised category plan, then run structured sourcing waves against it. Each wave baselines the spend, benchmarks the market, redesigns the specification, runs a competitive event, negotiates the contract and transitions the supplier. Waves typically run 8-16 weeks.
The point of strategic sourcing is not one-off saving - it is a repeatable rhythm that keeps a savings pipeline in front of the CFO. Category management makes the savings stick; see below.
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.
Digital procurement transformation
Digital procurement transformation is where tooling meets process. Spend analytics, source-to-contract, purchase-to-pay and supplier management platforms all deliver value - but only when the process around them is redesigned. We start from the process questions (where does spend leak, where does approval bottleneck, where do suppliers slip) and let those answers drive the tooling shortlist.
- Spend analytics and procurement spend analysis as the always-on foundation
- Source-to-contract to standardise sourcing and contract lifecycle
- Purchase-to-pay to eliminate maverick and off-contract buying
- Supplier information and risk management for the tail
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.
Also known as
Depending on the sponsor, this programme is called procurement modernisation, target operating model design, source-to-pay transformation, procurement function redesign, or a procurement maturity uplift. The label matters less than the sequencing - fastest payback first, structural change behind it.
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.
Transformation only sticks when category teams can defend a price with data. We break the price into materials, labour, overhead and margin so the negotiation is about cost drivers, not goodwill. See how we build a should-cost model.
Frequently asked questions
What do procurement transformation services cover?
Procurement transformation services cover the operating model, category strategy, sourcing execution, supplier governance and the technology that supports them. A good programme sequences these in the order that pays back fastest rather than trying to change everything at once.
What are strategic procurement services?
Strategic procurement services turn spend into a small number of prioritised categories, then run structured sourcing waves - baseline, benchmark, tender or renegotiate, contract and transition - to release measurable savings while protecting service.
What does digital procurement transformation actually change?
Digital procurement transformation replaces manual, spreadsheet-run buying with joined-up tooling: spend analytics, source-to-contract, purchase-to-pay and supplier management. The value comes from the process redesign around the tools, not the tools themselves.
About Caventis
Caventis (Caventis Ltd, registered in England & Wales, company number 17158263) is a UK procurement, supply chain and cost reduction consultancy. It works with mid-market and PE-backed businesses to identify and deliver savings across procurement, operations and back-office spend, typically on a shared-savings basis where the majority of the fee is tied to realised, P&L-verified outcomes.
The firm was founded by Matt Buckley (MCIPS, Cranfield MBA, FCMI Chartered Manager), who leads every engagement personally, drawing on 15+ years of procurement, supply chain and cost transformation experience at bp and General Motors. Caventis is headquartered in the United Kingdom and serves clients nationwide.
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