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We can provide expert help across a wide range of cost areas; adding value to your contract negotiations on a short, medium or long-term basis – right when you need it.

Our category expertise and the calibre of the individuals that provide it, is the essence of ERA.

Our specialist consultants come from long careers in their specific areas of expertise. We have an unrivalled depth of market knowledge, market influence, insight and experience.
We cover a broad range of cost areas. Purchasing and procurement responsibilities can fall into different areas of responsibility in different organisations. Often it’s the Finance Director or Procurement team (if the function exists). Sometimes, it’s devolved to department heads, such as Operations or Facilities. Sometimes departments share the responsibility. This can mean nobody has overall responsibility and indirect costs can spiral.

Procurement functions do exist in some larger organisations. Usually they focus on the cost of production and the purchasing of key components. Rarely is there particular category expertise in most indirect spend areas. We recognise that most organisations don’t need the depth of expertise that our people have day-to-day. That’s why our service is designed to bring into your business the relevant specialists at the right times.

Our people provide you with actionable insight that helps you to run your business more efficiently. We aim to ensure improved supplier contracts when appropriate and deliver long term reductions in spending. Our experience is brought to bear at the right time. We provide expert advice, and an external point of validation when negotiating contracts. So that you know before signing that contract, it’s set up to work for you and not against you. We are proud to have fantastic people within ERA waiting to assist you and we don’t believe there is anyone better to guide you through sometimes complex negotiations.

Our experts come to ERA from senior roles in their industry, and are from the UK & Ireland. Our Fleet specialist used to work for the largest corporate leasing company in the UK. Our fuel and distribution expert is a former Logistics company MD. Our banking team includes the former General Manager of Mastercard UK. Our experts have demonstrated their value, both within their own industry and to ERA clients alike for many years.

We offer professional advice on a wide range of cost areas, as well as procurement strategy, contract management and compliance issues. It means you can focus on delivering your core offering instead of spending too much time on these issues, or worse still, not addressing them at all. It is rarely cost-effective to have these people on your payroll full time, but access to them at the right time is invaluable.

The depth and breadth of our offer is wide ranging. We provide help and advice in many areas. Keep an eye on our blog for quarterly market reports and regular insight from our experts.

Some examples of our great expertise

“I could not recommend Expense Reduction Analysts highly enough: they have helped us reduce costs massively; they have worked with us to achieve ISO 14001 accreditation; and we have just learnt that our Head Office of 350 people has reached zero to landfill.”

Phil Johnson Head of Environmental Services, DFS

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