Event Procurement

Deliver cost savings through minimized risk, smarter procurement and an optimized supply chain
Enable customers to focus on their core business instead of trying to handle indirect, non-core expenditure Offer a global supply chain network with knowledge of suppliers in local and emerging economies
Reduce the costs and risks associated with sourcing non-core goods from new geographies, including emerging markets
Manage tenders for specific and individual projects on the customer’s behalf
Co-ordinate management of a transaction at every stage of the supply chain, ensuring that quality and lead-times are managed and monitored
Maximize customer revenues by meeting delivery promises through superior reliability
Deliver local market requirements such as customs and compliance management
Procure goods that enable customers to fulfill their corporate social responsibility requirements, an area of increasing stakeholder scrutiny.
Event has a track record of delivering substantial savings through the effective implementation and operation of best in class procurement.
We help organizations in getting the best out of the systems they have implemented by driving the process changes, both internally and with suppliers that result in the real benefits being achieved.
Event has developed and implemented a number of innovative outsourced procurement models that enable our clients to realise the savings opportunities across a wide range of categories without the need to acquire rare category expertise or implement niche technology solutions.

Our outsourced procurement services include:
Portfolio solutions where Event provide the procurement resources to manage some or all of a client’s categories. This approach allows the client’s staff to focus on core categories (typically direct spend) while reaping the benefits of a focused, expert approach to non-core categories. Event deploys a core team to provide day-to-day management and additional expertise to support specific activities and categories.
Category solutions that focus on a single major category, providing a bespoke operational service along side strategic supplier management. This may also include the aggregation of spend across Event clients to bring scale benefits to all parties.

We achieve these outstanding results through a combination of the following:
Outstanding purchasing skills and experience. Building on our deep, practical category knowledge, our team has extensive purchasing experience.
A knowledge base of suppliers and benchmark data. As a result of our ongoing benchmarking studies carried out in partnership with major public and private sector organizations, we have developed a wealth of clearly structured and easily comparable data to help speed up the process of quantifying the opportunities available for our clients. This coupled with a continually updated supplier knowledge base provides the basis for accurate and informed decision-making.
Proprietary procurement technology.
Agility and creativity. While we bring a wealth of experience, skills and tools, we recognize that every organization is different and the same solution does not work for everyone. Creativity runs through all of our work and training. Our agility is reflected in the commercial models we operate with our clients, from flat fee to full gain share, our arrangements see us rewarded for delivering auditable results that are often ten to twenty times our fees.