Turn spend into strategic advantage.
A connected approach to expenditure analysis, group purchasing and strategic sourcing.
How it works
Expenditure assessment
Analyze current spend, benchmark pricing, evaluate consolidation and lower-cost alternatives, and review bid history.
Discuss your needsHow the expenditure assessment works
Inside the expenditure assessment.
An AI-driven, technology-based assessment. Every analysis is applied per category and per supplier.
- Last time bid or negotiated
- Negotiation opportunities
- Price benchmarking
- Estimated supplier mark-up
- % of supplier's business
- Supplier tenure
- Supplier consolidation
- Existence of supplier agreements
- Use of low cost suppliers
- In-sourcing external manufacturing
- Specification changes and rationalization
- Transportation / freight opportunities
- Supply chain opportunities
- Industry best practices
Group purchasing
Connect relevant indirect expenditures to purchasing programs with leading national suppliers and support the move into appropriate arrangements.
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Covered categories.
Expected savings by category
- 01Computers7%
- 02Software15%
- 03Packaging15%
- 04Small parcel16%
- 05Temporary labor17%
- 06Maintenance, repair & operating supplies18%
- 07Office supplies21%
- 08Printing27%
- 09Uniforms20%
- 10Waste removal20%
Strategic sourcing consulting
Explore relevant direct expenditures where sourcing expertise can uncover value beyond existing purchasing programs.
Discuss your needsHow strategic sourcing works
Strategic sourcing process
- 1Data collection and categorization
- 2In-depth analyses
- 3Strategy development
- 4Implementation and execution
- 5Monitor and measure savings
Practical questions
AP and GL detail covering the trailing twelve months, current supplier contracts in the major categories, and one finance contact per company for follow-up questions. Where internal detail is thin, selected line-item data can come directly from incumbent suppliers.
Participation is opt-in by company and by category. Zenith is paid through supplier administrative fees, which are disclosed to you and to your portfolio companies. More on program economics.
Nothing moves until savings targets are reviewed and approved. Approved categories then onboard onto existing contracts, and companies are typically transacting on new pricing within 30 to 45 days. Contracts, supplier relationships and service levels are managed by Zenith, so portfolio companies transact rather than administer.