Suppliers are vital to all organisations
ERA’s specialist teams of Supplier Management Consultants enable you to enjoy sustainable, mutually beneficial Supplier Relationships that deliver value across a wide range of spending areas.
Our clients tend to be business owners, or work at Director level in finance, procurement and operations.
Whatever your role, it’s important to build sustainable supplier relationships that benefit both parties. This belief allows us to build strong relationships helping organisations to work together more effectively. We work independently and with total transparency, so you can be sure we are working ethically on your behalf to improve your relationships.
At Expense Reduction Analysts we believe we know more about the supply market in the UK (and Ireland) than most. Over the years we’ve learned a thing or two about how to extract best value from suppliers. Things you can benefit from, that we’re more than happy to pass on to your staff whilst working alongside you.
Our consultants work on your behalf to deal with suppliers old or new. They take care of switching (if necessary), embedding new suppliers as appropriate and conduct ongoing audits. We also work alongside your internal teams to help them engage with the process.
Where we really add value here though, is in the visibility we have of the marketplace.
We are in constant dialogue with thousands of suppliers. At any one time, we manage hundreds of millions of pounds worth of client expenditure. Our visibility of markets in more than 100 spending areas positions us well to provide advice and insight on best value arrangements in the supply chain. Our experts know which suppliers can provide most appropriately for your specific requirements and who are currently providing the right terms and the best value.
Our disciplined approach enables your organisation to control costs like never before. We help you to mitigate risk and gain increased value from your supplier during the period of the contract. We help you to identify and classify suppliers to extract best value from the contracts you enter into and we’ll identify and protect you from the ones we believe you shouldn’t sign. Your organisation will benefit from that additional focus, leading to enhanced supplier relationships, improved performance, better terms and minimised risk.
We can help to cut maverick spending within your organisation, by implementing procedures that streamline internal processes and your interactions with suppliers. We can introduce methods that will improve your supplier monitoring, provider better management information and improved visibility of the supply chain. We will help you to become more aware of where, when and how money is being wasted. We will eliminate long supply chains and renegotiate unfair contracts by making supplier monitoring the norm with minimal impact on your time.
You will always remain in control of the decision making. We will always manage any changes you decide to adopt, maintaining a close eye on the details. We stay with you for at least two years after implementation of any recommendation we may make has been adopted. We will track your costs, manage your supplier relationships and provide regular audit reports. You can be confident in the ERA tender process. The prices submitted will be adhered to and costs won’t be allowed to creep back up unreasonably.
Our clients usually come to us for the initial headline savings that we generate. They tell us that they stay because they value the legacy that we leave with their staff. You could call it an improved sense of responsibility. We call them smarter spending habits.
