Many companies – from the long-established to the rapidly growing – face common challenges around strategy, people, process and technology that can prevent a step-change in procurement effectiveness.

Our managed procurement service (MPS) supports your procurement operations through technology deployment, and procurement transformation.

Unlike a conventional consultancy, Ventune takes responsibility for delivering agreed savings and improvements, while ensuring that skills and knowledge are transferred to and embedded in the host company.

Managed procurement service provides support options in the following areas:

• Resource capacity expertise: Enabling you to match resources and capabilities to peaks and troughs in procurement activity. These can be caused by factors such as major contract renewals, projects or changes in the marketplace.
• Speed and impact: Increasing capability by providing early access to benchmarks and best practices that can drive forward bottom line improvement. 
• Tools and software: Giving access to specialist software solutions and procurement tools that would otherwise be too expensive or may only be needed rarely. We also ensure solutions are properly utilized, and maintenance and updates do not overstretch in-house IT resources. Our platform give you the clear view from the input of your data throughout the delivery of your goods
• Implementation: Capability uplift and skills acquisition can involve ‘cultural’ changes which require a longer term approach. Ventune’s MPS offers support to companies introducing new procurement practices and helps to ensure benefits are sustained.

Benefits of the managed procurement service approach

The combination of challenges you face varies over time – individual skills are gained or lost; major projects may require different expertise; mergers, acquisitions, new products and new markets have their own requirements. Our managed procurement service approach allows you to address wider elements of spend, over a longer period, to deliver greater and more permanent benefits.

Managed procurement services are unique in that they are applicable not just to the commonly outsourced indirect spend categories, but also to direct, core and project spend. Indeed, it is not fundamentally an outsourcing of activity: it is an insourcing of capability – an extension of the team, not a replacement.

Flexible and affordable

MPS covers a mix of services appropriate to your requirements, to deliver benefits through people, technology and expertise, including:

• Sourcing and eSourcing 
• Supplier Management 
• Category Management 
• Process Improvement 
• Procurement Analytics
• Technology Implementation 
• Logistics management and overview to delivery

Typically, expert high level consultancy will define the problems and solutions and provide a short-term ‘boost’ which is then sustained by ongoing teams working with the firm’s own staff to provide capability