Tinto Procurement - Smarter Purchasing of Goods and Services To Meet Your Business Needs and Achieve Your Goals

TENDER MANAGEMENT

Understand customer requirements
Ensure high quality scope of work agreed from all relevant parties eg Production, Engineering, HR etc
Confirm any legislative requirements
Prepare tender brief document
Inclusion of specifications and drawings
Source suppliers
Review and analysis of quotations/bids
Negotiation
Recommendations
Implementation/Changeover Management if required

PURCHASING PROCESS MAPPING

Understanding of current process
- How is cash spent in your business?
- What are your current controls to manage spend?
- Are you meeting your spend targets/budgets?
Identify areas of improvement
Identify Solutions for target areas
Implement Solutions
Review & assess change

EXPENDITURE ANALYSIS

Consolidate and categorise spend data to determine spend profile by commodity group
Identify key spend by value and volume
Understand spend value in relation to sales value for both direct and indirect costs
Analysis of expenditure with supply base
- Option for Tinto Procurement to work with you to determine if any supply chain risks eg single sourced products, exchange rate fluctuation and to help mitigate risk

NEGOTIATION & CONTRACT MANAGEMENT

Review existing Contracts/Agreements to ensure these are in your best interests
- Identify opportunities to break/void/renegotiate contracts
Create formal Contractual documents to ensure delivery of quality goods or services at best prices to meet the business needs and to reduce risk
- Ensuring detailed and accurate scope of works is agreed and documented
- Required Service Level committed
Negotiate payment terms that reflect the business needs and reduce risk if supplier goes bankrupt either once Purchase Order places or during supply of goods or services
Credit Checks
Terms & Conditions
- Option for Tinto Procurement to work with you to resolve any conflict resolution with supplier's eg poor delivery performance, quality issues.

COST REDUCTION OPPORTUNITIES

Review of your expenditure profile to identify Opportunities and agree priorities
Understand the background of the goods and services purchased
- Customer Specified
- Specification and/or Drawing applicable
- Off the shelf
- Production Critical Item
- Legislative Requirements
- Unique delivery/storage requirements
Actively pursue cost reduction;
- Review of Supplier List and reduce or increase as required
- Consider Long Term Agreements
- Change Scope of Works
  - Review Specification to identify exact requirements
  - Amalgamate commodities to increase work package
Review delivery/storage/packing requirements
Consider end-user perspective
- Manual handling
- Shelf life
- Volume of deliveries

QUALITY TENDER BID (Customers & Potential Customers)

Support the preparation of Quality Tender Bids by evaluating from the customer/buyer perspective and providing improvement feedback.
Review unsuccessful Tender Bids and identifying areas of improvement and solutions to increase your success rate.

TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

Provision of 1-1 Training and Development Support
Bespoke Group Training specific to your Business Requirements
Guidance Notes to provide relevant, practical assistance to your team

PRICING

Tinto Procurement are happy to operate on a daily rate or on a fixed price basis. Please contact us to discuss your individual requirements.

"Her attitude and ability to build relationships created a strong team in the Purchasing and Stores function as well as with her suppliers, which generated very flexible, responsive and communicative employees and vendors who all had a very clear understanding of her expectations, and this enabled her to transition our business from a largely transactional procurement business to a very strategically focused business. "
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MISSION STATEMENT
We will always operate in a professional and ethical manner ensuring no conflict of interest. We ensure complete confidentiality and should exclusivity be required, this can be guaranteed on a contract by contract basis subject to commercial terms being agreed.

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