Procurement and Materials Management
Direct Materials is still the largest contributor to Cost of Goods Sold. A reduction in the prices we pay has an immediate effect on our bottom line, but it’s not all about price.
Pilgrim have a long history in the field of procurement and materials management and work with clients to support their own internal teams optimise the supply agreements that they manage or help them negotiate better deals that support the overall materials strategy. Category Management, Core Competency Coding and Structuring, Should Cost Modelling and Target Costing Processes, are all areas where we have worked on developing the purchasing function to better understand the costs they are responsible for.
In Materials Management, we work with Finance and Inventory Management staff to determine the optimum use of inventory, determine the appropriate approaches (Make to Stock, Make to Order etc) and to develop systems for the review of working capital effectiveness.
We work with clients both in consulting roles and also as interim directors and managers for those businesses that do not have this function defined.
If your business could benefit from a reduction in materials spend, or an injection of cash from refined materials usage, call us.
On joining the business it became clear that a new long term strategy was required to steer the business through a turbulent political and economic environment.
We worked with Davie on developing a strategy that both pointed the business on a route that navigated those challenges but also addressed the wider initiatives of our owning group.
We recognised the need for solid building blocks in areas to improve but with a vision flexible enough to take us through a changing environment.
I’m really pleased to say that our business plan is now routed firmly in c2c and supported by our stakeholders as a step change in the operation of the business.
Davies manner is warm and personable, using his vast corporate experience to draw parallels and help focus the planning sessions.
