Procurement consultancy and cost reduction for global businesses.
Caventis is a UK-based procurement consultancy working with global businesses of any size. We offer five services: cost reduction, product sourcing, services offshoring, sustainable supply chains and interim procurement leadership.
Book an introductory callTypical starting points: a contract up for renewal, margins squeezed by supplier prices, a sale or acquisition, or a tender that asks for a carbon reduction plan.
- Cost reduction
Spend review, then retendering and renegotiation of the contracts that cost too much.
Work with our cost reduction consultants - Product sourcing
Suppliers in the UK, China, India, Vietnam, Turkey and Eastern Europe, compared on landed cost.
An independent product sourcing agent - Services offshoring
Independent advice on which processes can move, to which location and provider.
An independent offshoring consultant - Sustainable supply chains
Supplier emissions data and the documents tenders ask for.
Carbon reduction plans and Modern Slavery statements - Interim procurement leadership
A senior procurement director for a sale, an acquisition or a cost programme.
An interim procurement director
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Savings measured against a baseline finance agrees
Twelve months of accounts payable and purchase order data set the baseline. Each saving records the price before and after, the volume, the contract that supports it and the first month of impact, and finance signs off the calculation.
How savings are evidencedStrategic sourcing has allowed companies to achieve savings of 10 to 20 percent.[1]
- 01
Agree the scope
Spend in scope, the commercial terms and the decision points.
- 02
Establish the facts
Baseline from twelve months of data and a should-cost model.
- 03
Put decisions into practice
Tenders, negotiations and contract changes.
- 04
Verify the outcome
Finance signs off each saving against the baseline.
Every engagement is led by the founder
Matt Buckley has spent 16 years delivering the services Caventis offers today: spend reviews and cost reduction programmes, product sourcing from UK and overseas suppliers, offshoring decisions, supplier emissions data and interim procurement leadership. He built that experience at bp and General Motors and leads each engagement personally, from scope to sign-off.
About Matt BuckleyDiscuss your procurement priorities
An introductory call on the spend, the timing and the scope.