Purchasing Consulting

We offer end-to-end purchasing consulting and specialize in strategic sourcing operations, purchasing processes and Sourcing Best Practices. Depending on your particular needs or interests, we focus on business process improvement, organization design, and/or purchase cost savings programs designed to significantly reduce purchase costs.

Requisition to Pay Business Process Improvement

This major business process includes those activities in Requisitioning, Purchasing, Receiving, and Accounts Payable. At The Wincup Group, we specialize in assisting your organization identify non-value adding activities that may waste valuable time by simplifying the process flow activities so that it becomes easy for the organization’s users to purchase their needs.

Many organizations use process improvement project to reduce their purchased costs of good sold and, as a result, to pay for other new projects with these reduced costs.

Improve Profitability by Reducing Costs

The Wincup Group specializes in identifying where the purchased cost savings may be. From there, we work in a collaborative environment with your purchasing team to, first, secure these purchasing savings and, second, how to manage the new supply relationship.

We also work with companies that have just completed a merger or acquisition to assist them in getting the full benefits of their new procurement market leverage. These savings can provide immediate visible savings for the new company. As an example of Improving Profitability by Reducing Costs, we can provide case histories for a Semiconductor Manufacturer, Food Producer and Chemical Company actual project summaries.

Better Industry Practices

Why are one company’s buyers or even one buyer perceived as being better than another? Quite often it is because the better buyers and buying groups or teams use our better industry practices in procurement operations. These practices are best taught, in our opinion, in actual buying situations.

At The Wincup Group we work closely with each of our clients and engage them in these better industry practices in procurement. We take a hands-on approach through the transfer of knowledge and implementation of these industry practices and guide your buyers and buying teams into more effective cost savers and strategic negotiators.

Purchasing Organization Restructuring

Organizational change can be both stressful and time consuming for the personnel involved as well as for management. It can be further complicated when a key person decides to retire or leave. The Wincup Group assists our client companies deal and cope with this transitional environment.