Procurement Diagnostics: Quick, meaningful, actionable
We offer you diagnostics that are grounded in operational reality and data relevant to you
- Our diagnostics focus on what really counts in running a modern procurement team
- Get a clear view of where value is created, where it leaks, and what must change
- We leverage consulting best practice, not academic consulting maturity models, and experience of running procurement teams
- We look at the total picture of where procurement sits in your organisation and what value you want from it
- We infuse latest global thinking in procurement, impacts of AI and what foundations are important
- We build you a roadmap with options to make it relevant for you that may include elements such as:
- Build what is valuable to you first, with repeatable wins
- Achievable by you, not over-engineered
- Agile, iterative and incremental
Procurement Operating Model Diagnostic and Roadmap
- We review your business to help you make 12 key design decisions so you build the procurement capability relevant to you
- Fixed Price
- We can deliver at a low price by leveraging our deep procurement expertise and ability to rapidly understand your business needs
Diagnostic and roadmap offerings coming soon
- Digital Procurement and AI data ready
- Supplier / Third Party management and risk
- Sustainable procurement
Sustainable for operations with AI for procurement
Explore our core capabilities designed to enhance procurement success.
Harnessing de-centralised activities
If we are honest, most purchasing decisions are made by those close to the business activity. This can provide time critical agility, though is the most efficient path taken and are all the risks adequately managed. Technology now exists to orchestrate your teams and processes in line with business objectives with full transparency and proven, compelling benefits:
– Reduce process cycle times
– Obtain 100% supplier risk compliance
– Reduce spend
– Achieve more and better outcomes with less effort
AI for Procurement
In mid 2025, AI for Procurement arrived with pre-built AI agents in procurement orchestration platforms. Companies that invest now are going release time for their teams to create long term value, as well as gaining huge operational efficiencies and removing bottlenecks in the procurement lifecycle.
Proven Top-Tier implementation methods
We have done more implementations than we care to mention and know what is involved to achieve your business objectives digitally. We help you get started, thinking through all elements you need to decide on and using our data models to help you establish foundation data models, to ensure AI does what you want, not create chaos.
Sustainable for the P&L
We help you ensure your procurement operating model guides decision making aligned to your business strategy, efficiently and effectively. You will enable business teams optimise spend to deliver the value targeted in budgets.
We have faced the myriad of complexities involved in achieving this, such as
- inefficient processes with multiple reviews acting as a roadblock
- ineffective risk management unable to provide clear oversight, especially as regulations change (eg CPS 230, data privacy)
- supplier management focused on compliance and missing innovative leaps forward.
We have helped several organisations focus on what is important for them and build an operating model that embeds the complex multiple relationships needed internally and externally.
This enables you to determine what value you want procurement to drive and who will be responsible for it.
Procurement Operating Model Design
Craft tailored procurement frameworks that align with your business goals to optimise value from your spend.
Supplier Management Framework Design
Prioritise your critical suppliers to encourage innovation, incorporate sustainability, manage performance and risks. We help you put in place the building blocks of supplier segmentation, supplier risk domains, meeting and review cycles. Meet your business growth needs, as well as your risk and compliance requirements.
Sustainable for the planet
For most companies, 80% of their sustainability impact is in their supply chain. We help you achieve your sustainability objectives through the supply chain
- Embedding sustainability in the Supply Chain
- We support procurement be the hero in achieving your sustainability goals through the supply chain
- Converting feel good examples into holistic sustainability impacts embedded into your procurement operating model
- Integrating sustainability into your supplier management framework to manage modern slavery, fair pay, scope 3 emissions, net zero supplier targets, supplier performance, risk, innovation and other Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) factors
- SPV fully supports the sustainable procurement pledge and are committed to helping organisations leverage their suppliers to drive sustainable outcomes
Achieving Sustainable Value with AI for Procurement
From over 50 digital implementations and ownership, SPV provides you with a proven methods from the largest, most complex and mid-sized deployments.
We support you build firm foundations to get you up and running quickly with the capability to the sustain and grow value.
Accelerators
- Data models for supplier, category, approvals and contracts.
- Procurement toolkit covering guides for processes, supplier segmentation and risk domains, with templates for sourcing, contracts and approvals
Key design decision framework
- Make sure business drives the technology with guided decisions on workflows, sourcing rules, RACI, reviews and approvals.
Building people capability
- Empowering your people to drive continuous enhancements with revised skills, activities and AI governance model
- Remember AI is not static code, so you need to know and govern the high risk, judgement-needed processes