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Practice • QS provides access to one of the most experienced and skilled procurement consultancy and learning and development practices in the UK. We provide extensive procurement services as a core business function across the UK public and global private sectors, delivering in Europe, the Middle East and globally for major multinationals.

Marketing Procurement • We specialise in the marketing of the procurement function inside and outside the organisation working closely with customers we conduct stakeholder research which is used to develop marketing and communications strategy and plans. We can help with developing the procurement value proposition, with communicating at senior levels and supplier network optimisation programmes.

Expertise • Our consultants comprise senior practitioners with both hands–on procurement, commercial and senior management experience and extensive consultancy experience gained within both large consultancies and SME‘s. We work closely with The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) - most of our consultants are MCIPS qualified with many having attained Fellowship status (FCIPS). Our Practice Head is currently Chair of the CIPS Supply Chain Group, and we deliver training and development for CIPS themselves as well as delivering some courses which are accredited by CIPS for CPD purposes. We also work with CIPS on developing professional guidance, study and eLearning materials and in examination marking.

Procurement Strategy • We work with clients to determine their procurement and commercial strategy and how to align this with the organisations strategy and goals. We help to ensure that the procurement organisational desgin supports the business and key stakeholder needs. We also assist with procurement transformation, embedding new teams and ensuring success through effective change management./p>

Procurement Consulting • Our approqach is to provide hands on support to practitioners to ensure skills transfer and learning. We work in a range of areas including Category Management ; Strategic Sourcing ; Risk Management ; Sustainable Procurement ; Cost Reduction, Spend Analysis and VFM programmes ; Contract Management ; Procurement Project Management and Major Bid Support

Procurement Leadership • Leadership development programs tailored specifically to procurement and commercial leaders, those wishing to develop their skills to the most senior level. We also provide mentoring from experienced, professionals and leaders from a range of backgrounds.

Supply Chain • We work with clients to identify supply chain vulnerabilities and risks and to implement mitigation and management strategies. We extensive experience in outsourcing, including offshore business outsourcing, working with organisations to evaluate business drivers for outsourcing. We also help in negociating outsourcing contracts and conducting due diligence.

IT Procurement • We deliver a range of services to support specialist IT procurement in both the sales (bids) and delivery (project) environments. We have worked with clients to provide specialist skills and resources for bid support, comntract negotiation and back to back contracting, eProcurement, eSourcing and P2P business case design, ROI modelling, business process optimisation and systems implementation.

Commissioning and Best Value Reviews •

Procurement Services • We provide outsourced procurement services utilised our QSBuy solution and our teeam of category experts. QS customers have achieved 200%+ ROI on outsourcing their major spend purchasing whilst retaining governance and control of their P2P processes and small value purchasing.

We can also provide project support and specialist interim resources including at Senior Management and Director level.

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