Business Issue A $100M manufacturing company (oil and gas) lacked a strategic sourcing strategy linked to driving continued savings. Flow Consulting was asked to help them achieve significant cost savings by creating a new strategy. Approach Used Flow Consulting worked with the internal team of purchasing agents and the finance organization to identify $5.2M in annual savings. These cost … [Read more...]
Strategic Sourcing Case Studies
Leveraging Purchasing Strength
Business Issue Different purchasing teams in different business units were not leveraging their volumes across a division. Approach Used Led management through QFD to identify course of action. Set up commodity teams, trained commodity team leaders and supported leaders in their kickoff commodity team meetings. Results 15 percent cost improvements after the first year. … [Read more...]
Eroding Margins
Business Issue The new CEO of a design-to-order higher-technology company has been facing eroding margins because of intense pressure on the bottom-lines of its customers. The new CEO needed a quick assessment of potential savings in his purchased materials and specific recommendations for implementation. Approach Used Flow consultants began with a quick and hard-hitting analysis of the … [Read more...]