Procurement and Supply Chain Intelligence

Benefit from our streamlined process, connecting you with suppliers aligning perfectly with your requirements. From initial identification to benchmarking and assessment, rest assured, we have you covered every step of the way.

Supplier Identification and Profiling

Discover, shortlist, evaluate, and profile potential suppliers based on their business, technical, and manufacturing capabilities, reliability, and alignment with the organization's procurement needs.

Supplier Benchmarking / Detailed RFX Support

Through a comprehensive RFI/RFP/RFQ process, we help clients benchmark and recommend suppliers through in-depth evaluation across manufacturing and techno-commercial factors, including prices, lead times, incoterms, financials, and certifications.

Competitor Supplier Mapping and Assessment

Analyzing competitors' suppliers for vital categories/products/components/services yields valuable insights into category strategy, technical capabilities, price benchmarks, and supplier terms/conditions.

Sustainability Assessment of Identified Suppliers

Achieve sustainability objectives and set realistic carbon reduction targets in line with broader environmental goals with our deep analysis on supplier carbon emissions across operations, including procurement, production, energy use, and logistics, helping you shortlist low-carbon suppliers in the targeted locations.

Identifying best & low-cost country includes assessing cost of raw materials and components, regulatory environments, and overall economic stability allow clients to optimize procurement strategies, reduce expenses, and enhance competitiveness in the global market.

Our evaluation encompasses critical factors for strategic decision-making, including Economic indicators (GDP growth rate, Inflation rate, Currency stability), Regulatory environment (Ease of doing business, Tax policies, Trade policies), Political and social stability (Political climate, Legal environment), Supply market, Supplier base, Cost structure, Supply Chain and Sourcing, and considerations like Geopolitical risks, natural disasters, and potential disruptions, to help businesses identify the most cost-effective sourcing countries.

Our should-cost modeling service ensures your procurement needs are met with true production costs. Utilize our “plug-n-play” models to achieve full transparency on process dynamics, materials, cost components (fixed, variable, overheads), margin optimization, and better negotiations.

Our dynamic should-cost model considers various parameters to provide per unit cost of production for the target category:

• Multiple input variables - regions, product variants, type of setup, etc.
• Process considerations - automatic/ semi-automatic, shared/dedicated lines, capacity, utilization, efficiency, wastages, changeovers, etc.
• Fixed-cost parameters - land/rental, equipment, repairs & maintenance, depreciation, financial costs, etc.
• Variable-cost elements - material, labor, utilities, overheads, inventory, packaging, etc.
• Margins - gross, net, and impact of payment terms, etc.

Category best practices assessment involve gathering and analyzing procurement and sourcing benchmarks to enhance market position, providing insights on industry standards and competitor strategies for improved sourcing decisions.

Category Sourcing Strategy

We deliver in-depth competitor and market analysis, offering strategic insights to optimize sourcing across categories. This includes best-in-class spend insights, advise on supplier selection, pricing, and contracting models, and perform ongoing price and hedging analysis. This approach empowers proactive decision-making, helping you navigate financial and sourcing challenges while enhancing market competitiveness.

Procurement Organization Structure

We map out best-in-class team structure, including overall configuration, category-specific teams, and reporting workflows. We benchmark procurement organizations, evaluating total spend, FTE allocation, spend per FTE, organizational structure, key roles, category management, process efficiency, demand variability, support functions, and digital readiness enhancing your organizational effectiveness to optimize procurement efficiency.

Sourcing Innovation Analysis

We analyze your competitors innovation teams, approval processes, and innovation cycles, along with tools, domains, subscriptions, and key technology suppliers. This assessment offers insights into your industry's innovation landscape, helping you understand competitive strengths and identify opportunities to enhance and differentiate your innovation strategies.

Leverage our streamlined process for comprehensive price tracking and forecasting. From price movement analysis to continuous monitoring, we ensure real-time updates for informed decision-making for your target categories.

Historical, Current and Forecasted Price Analysis

We deliver comprehensive price analysis, including historical tracking, current trends, and forecasts. Our insights cover price trends, regional variations, and qualitative factors impacting prices. Our scenario-based price forecasting includes supply-demand dynamics, raw material trends, and macroeconomic indicators. We provide short-term forecasts (monthly to annual) and long-term projections (up to 10 years) tailored to your category requirements.

Category Dashboards (Comprehensive Package with Regular updates)

Our Category Dashboards service, a one-stop solution, integrates all price aspects like price developments, forecasts, price trends, variations, qualitative rationales, and more to deliver quick, yet comprehensive perspectives serving as a holistic testimony to our clients for strategic decision-making. We provide updates at regular intervals based on your requirements, which can be daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, or annual basis.

Ensure supply chain stability and drive resilience by effectively navigating risks across the supply chain and the adverse impacts through our robust solution framework. We provide supply chain risk analysis at tier 1-2-3-4 level and beyond for end-to-end risk coverage.

Tier-n Supplier Mapping

Our supply chain mapping identifies high-impact spend categories and analyzes value creation at each stage for your products. We map suppliers at tier 2, 3, and 4 levels, including supplier names, their locations, ports, transportation methods, and the overall supply chain structure.

Risk Analysis & Management

Our risk analysis evaluates potential threats at each tier, by analyzing supply-demand dynamics, geopolitical conditions, macroeconomic trends, cost fluctuations, and force majeure events. We benchmark these risks, create risk scorecards, and identify high-risk nodes prone to disruption. Our risk management approach prioritizes risks by criticality, develops mitigation plans with implementation roadmaps, and offers ongoing tracking with customized real-time alerts and risk mitigation strategies.

Supplier Risk Assessment

Ensure supply chain continuity by identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks associated with public as well as private suppliers across the value chain, and protect your business from potential disruptions. Our supplier risk analysis includes risk assessment across multiple factors ensuring a thorough evaluation to support strategic supplier management decision-making.

We offer regular support on a quarterly, monthly, semi-annual, and annual basis to ensure continuous optimization, risk mitigation, and supply chain resilience.

We integrate environmental factors into purchasing decisions, reducing ecological footprint, improving regulatory compliance, and cutting costs. Our tailored solutions help organizations adopt green procurement best-practices to achieve environmental and economic benefits, enhancing market competitiveness.

Sustainable Material Sourcing Assessment

We provide comprehensive solutions such as sustainable material assessment, supplier scouting and benchmarking, market assessment for sustainable materials, and emission impact assessment, helping our clients enhance their supply chain’s sustainability by aligning with environmental goals and regulatory compliance, optimizing costs, and mitigating risks associated with material sourcing and emissions.

Decarbonization Analysis

Our analysis covers a range of critical areas including market assessment of decarbonization within sectors, innovative technologies and energy storage solutions, supplier scouting and benchmarking, market evaluation of by-products, and thorough technical and commercial assessments of technologies. These services enable our clients to seamlessly transition to sustainable practices, streamline their supply chains, and leverage emerging decarbonization technologies effectively.

Circularity Investigation

We conduct a thorough circularity investigation, providing value chain analysis, competitive analysis, supplier analysis, price analysis, market analysis, and best practices analysis, allowing our clients to optimize operations, enhance sustainability, and gain a competitive edge in their respective industries, ensuring long-term profitability and environmental stewardship.

Supplier ESG Baseline Data Mapping

Our thorough ESG risk and mitigation assessment covering ESG risk identification, meticulous ESG risk assessments, targeted improvement strategies implementation, and ongoing ESG risk monitoring, enables our clients to effectively manage and mitigate ESG risks, promoting sustainable business practices.

Whether you are considering a new plant investment (greenfield or brownfield) or looking into backward integration within existing facilities, our comprehensive CAPEX analysis has you covered. Our solution framework includes plant setup, layout/design, equipment and technology integration, regulatory requirements, depreciation, financial considerations, risk assessment, and potential pitfalls. Clients benefit from our thorough CAPEX modeling, which encompasses investment recommendations, returns, financial estimates (NPV, IRR, ROI, breakeven/payback, profitability), and early warning signs of risks.

Unlock the full potential of your procurement strategy with our comprehensive Spend Analysis solutions. We help you gain deep insights into your procurement expenditures by categorizing and analyzing spend data across business units, regions, and suppliers. Our expert team identifies cost-saving opportunities, improves sourcing decisions, and enhances supplier relationships through data-driven insights.

Gain a comprehensive understanding of your procurement categories with our Category 360° Overview service. We provide an all-encompassing analysis of your spend categories, delivering insights into demand-supply landscape, market trends, list of suppliers, pricing dynamics, and sourcing strategies. Our service includes a detailed examination of your category performance, supply chain risks, and cost-saving opportunities, ensuring you have the strategic intelligence needed to optimize your procurement processes.