When businesses fail to use a clear, systematic, and holistic procurement approach to guide their purchasing decisions and supply needs, buying organisations often obtain goods and services that do not meet any or all of their requirements.

The outcomes of a poor procurement strategy includes redundant purchases, waste of money, reduced profits, and a needless amount of conflicts internally between staff and externally with suppliers as each party debates on who’s at fault for the contractual issues arising.

If poor procurement practices are repeated over and over, businesses can become impacted very negatively by the waste of valuable resources (time, money, people and goodwill).

At Keystone Procurement, we provide technical procurement expertise to both public and private sector buying organisations so that they can establish and embed appropriate procurement policies, systems and best practices to get value for money at all times, to increase the cost-effectiveness of procurement, to ensure the use of fair and efficient procurement practices, to facilitate collaboration where possible to avoid duplication of effort and cost-savings through the use of shared experiences and information along with common suppliers.

We help buyers to enhance their procurement strategy, structure, capabilities, and processes while ensuring that the improvements are appropriate to the scale and complexity of the organisation.

Typically, we focus on identifying where improvements can be implemented, and support the buyer in the development and delivery of its plans to improve their procurement strategies, policies and procedures.

With our Keystone Procurement consultants supporting your teams, the business stakeholders undertaking procurement planning, development, sourcing and management are positioned to make better strategic decisions and contribute more effectively to the organisation’s business objectives.

Our Keystone Procurement team has years of technical procurement expertise. As a result, we can offer a range of support services to suppliers on how to make the most of their business opportunities. Such services include assisting businesses in responding to invitations to tender from private and public sector companies, and providing practical information and advice to key supplier staff so as to improve the company’s probability of winning tender competitions.

Check out our Bid Management and Procurement Training pages to learn more about how we can help you as a supplier.