Our Partners

IASTA

Founded in 2000, IASTA is a team of dedicated sourcing and spend management experts focused on delivering the greatest value through a strategic partnership. IASTA provides guidance and a customized execution plan that dramatically improves visibility, acts as a catalyst for change, mitigates risk and delivers significant results for resource constrained clients. By utilizing IASTA’s deep industry expertise and evolutionary procurement solutions, our clients can create a path for success and encourage cross-functional collaboration to achieve their goals. Tailored to meet our clients’ unique and evolving business needs, both IASTA SmartSource and IASTA SmartAnalytics help teams discover new opportunities by combining spend data with deep sourcing experience to refine costs and mitigate risks in the supply chain. In order to improve sourcing intelligence and track adoption, clients use IASTA Executive Analytics Suite. In addition, IASTA offers both training and augmented services, allowing teams to offload and amplify their efforts to make a greater impact with their company.  For larger Procurement Transformation engagements, clients working with the IASTA Consulting Group often realize an ROI of 15:1 or greater.

Market Dojo

Market Dojo offers an easy to use, professional solution with completely transparent pricing, all hosted online. Developed by procurement professionals, their software has the capability to run RFQs and both forward and reverse self-managed online auctions for an unlimited variety of sourcing or asset disposal activities.

To date Market Dojo has helped their clients average savings of approximately 30% from e-auction results alone, as well as aiding significant efficiency improvements.  Even more impressively, their clients have generated an average return on investment upon buying an Annual Licence of little over 2 weeks!

Next Level Purchasing Association

Are you a purchasing/supply management professional who:

• Is tired of being paid less than you're worth?
• Is annoyed that you don't get the respect and recognition you deserve?
• Is frustrated because there are so few good purchasing job opportunities, yet so much competition for them?
• Is afraid that your skills aren't valued as much as those of the fresh-out-of-college MBA's who everyone is hiring?
• The SPSM Certification can help you have a more rewarding purchasing career!

ProcureApp

ProcureApp is a powerful demand management tool for financial and procurement professionals that alerts employees to preferred suppliers and purchasing methods when they are looking for goods and services. With employees focused on driving business initiatives, purchasing departments are looking for ways to influence, communicate and educate without having sourcing initiatives distract. Capturing additional spend allows companies to reduce costs and improve supplier negotiations. ProcureApp discretely alerts employees when demand is present and provides for: 100% compliance capabilities, the ability to change suppliers easily and to alert employees to new savings opportunities without disrupting their time. ProcureApp helps companies capture more company expenses and can result in savings of 5%-20%.

Purcon

Purcon, a market leader in executive recruitment, is a cornerstone business within the newly formed Oxinia group of companies, each company adding value in fast-growing, high quality niche resourcing areas. For over 30 years Purcon has led the way in executive talent resourcing in the procurement and supply chain field. Our key strengths lie in market knowledge, excellence in selection and creativity in the profiling and promotion of client employer brands as part of any major recruitment programme.

Puridiom

Puridiom is a leading Procure-to-Pay solution provider, offering the most comprehensive eProcurement software on both Cloud and Licensed platforms for organizations of all sizes and industries.  For over 28 years, Puridiom has streamlined function in the supply chain with innovative technologies, providing dynamic personalized services, and extensive domain experience.  The easy-to-use software and team strategies enable organizations to gain a competitive position and transform business into a strategic resource savings entity.  Solutions include: Enterprise Procure-to-Pay, Puridiom Xpress, Strategic Sourcing, Catalog Content Management, Supplier Enablement, Invoice Automation, Business Process Outsourcing, and Travel Management.  E-Procurement consulting services are also provided.

Rosslyn Analytics

Rosslyn Analytics has forever changed the way customers view their organizations. The award-winning global technology company has the world’s first self-service web-based analytics platform which enables users to extract, transform, anaylze and benchmark the performance of their organisation in minutes without the need to install software, hire consultants or training. RA.Pid facilitates more than just spend analysis - the platform automatically classifies and enriches your data with external sources of information so you can focus on running your business, not managing your organization’s data.

Source One Management Services

Source One Management Services, Since 1992, Source One Management Services has provided customized spend-management solutions, optimizing the efficiency and profitability of their clients through strategic sourcing. Source One is a recognized industry thought leader due to its consultative approach to procurement transformation, optional contingency model, extensive market intelligence databases, free e-Sourcing tool WhyAbe.com, and various publications; including a book and the Strategic Sourceror blog.  

Strategic Procurement Solutions

Strategic Procurement Solutions offers a number of key services to leading procurement groups, including:

• Staff augmentation (temporary, project, contingency search)
• Online supply management employee skills diagnostic testing
• Professional development services (training workshops, webinars, coaching, org development)
• Expertise in strategic sourcing of high ROI spend categories
• P2P efficiency enhancements
• Outsourcing project expertise (LCC & BPO)
• Supply management consulting services.

Strategic Procurement Solutions’ clients range from Fortune 100 to Russell 2000 in size; and include numerous Global enterprises as well. They also work with leading Public Sector supply chain groups.

VPcard

While trying to balance the expense and delay of formal Purchase Orders against the loss of spend control with purchasing cards, organizations have been left in need of a solution that offers both P2P efficiency and effective indirect spend control. VPcard does just that.

With your VPcard Administrator account, get started by simply listing your vendors and creating buyer accounts with transaction and monthly spend limits.  Your organization can immediately begin reducing spend by driving purchases to the right vendors while assuring negotiated pricing, freight, and terms are applied. Buyers simply obtain a VPcard-generated PO number by selecting a vendor and entering a transaction amount. The buyer provides that PO number to the vendor for a fully trackable purchase.

GroupRFx

GroupRFx's powerful set of intuitive tools puts all facets of the procurement process in your hands. By allowing users to easily create reusable, customizable templates in conjunction with preset item files, initiatives can be executed in a fraction of the time while maintaining the flexibility that is required for each individual RFx.

Purchasing Practice and Procurement-Academy

Procurement as a core business capability: 

Purchasing Practice provides a range of client-tailored advisory services to help CPO’s in the private and public sector make the critical link to overall business strategy, increase procurements influence, drive innovation and apply procurement best practice through organizationally aligned initiatives which drive superior results.

A strategic approach to developing procurement skills:

With our partners Procurement-Academy we offer a unique style of "High Impact E-learning" courses that are engaging and designed to have a similar learning effect to classroom learning. Our portfolio covers the complete needs of a Procurement department, from strategic to tactical and operational levels. We have a large online selection of procurement skills training with over 50 individual courses and many more are in development.

If you wish to inspire your team and provide them with on demand access to 'procurement best practice and how to execute' it - we can offer you the best solution on the market, totally dedicated to procurement.