MANUFACTURING
Commodity price fluctuations demand agile and proactive sourcing while the global scope of spend categories requires an open-minded and international procurement organisation able to implement customised and holistic approaches.
Our expertise
Global British Solutions has the expertise to identify major opportunities for improvement and helps you deliver these savings and embed organisations and processes that can build further benefits long term. Our experience across a broad range of clients, markets, commodities and sourcing practices allows us to recognise the potential for improvement often more clearly than the company management. And as an independent advisers, we operate outside internal politics and corporate silos.
Unique approach
We help manufacturing companies address direct spending (Raw Materials, Commodities, Components, Spare Parts), Engineering spending (Design, Outsourced Engineering), Capex (Plant, Machinery) and indirect costs (Facilities Management, Transportation, Logistics, MRO).
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From the largest global corporations, we offer a customised approach, whether appropriate to highly regulated and quality-sensitive industries or to ones where service level and supply chain integration are key.
Global British Solutions' willingness to deliver the identified benefits at our risk, linking fees to the results achieved, underpins our credibility. Once engaged in a sourcing programme, the Global British Solutions team works with your organisation and directly engages with the market, internal technical and specifying functions and stakeholders.
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Global experience
Our multinational teams have experience is drawn from all the relevant supply and consumption regions, from the US and EU to East Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, India, and elsewhere. From basic commodities to the most sophisticated systems and services, direct or indirect, we are able to deploy the right combination of Procurement experts and analysts to assure investment payback in months rather than years.
Spend transparency is crucial in a sector where companies are often global and multi-site. Global British Solutions looks for ways to provide more real-time data analytics, for example, through the use of a monthly refresh cycle to enhance Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). We address both cost and working capital optimisation to develop a sourcing approach that satisfies your internal stakeholders, operational constraints and overall business objectives. The strategic levers we apply include:
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Global sourcing
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Supply base tiering
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Specification optimisation
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Indexed long-term agreements
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Transactional improvement
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In/Outsourcing
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Cost unbundling
We understand the constraints under which Manufacturing labours, and are accustomed to working with imperfect specifications, shortage of client staff, volatile markets, multisite organisations and fragmented supply bases. We manage these situations short-term and provide the basis for long-term continuous improvement.