What is Procurement as a Service?
Procurement as a Service is a flexible service model where businesses organise specific procurement activities to external experts. This approach combines advanced technology, specialised expertise, and strategic insights to manage procurement processes effectively, allowing organisations to focus on their core competencies.
Procurement as a Service
Procurement is no longer just about purchasing, it’s about driving efficiency, cost savings, and strategic value. However, many organisations struggle with resource limitations, expertise gaps, and inefficient processes that lead to unnecessary costs and supply chain vulnerabilities.
At Quantum 360, we provide Procurement as a Service (PaaS), a flexible, scalable, and results-driven solution designed to enhance your procurement capabilities. Whether you need advisory support, additional procurement expertise, or a strategic procurement function, we help optimise your procurement strategy while ensuring compliance, efficiency, and financial control.
Our PaaS Offerings
At Quantum 360, we provide a comprehensive suite of PaaS solutions tailored to meet your unique business needs:
- Strategic Sourcing: Identifying and engaging suppliers that align with your organisational goals and deliver optimal value.
- Supplier Management: Developing and maintaining strong relationships with suppliers to ensure quality, compliance, and innovation.
- Procurement Process Optimisation: Streamlining procurement workflows to reduce cycle times and operational costs.
- Spend Analysis: Leveraging data analytics to gain insights into spending patterns and identify cost-saving opportunities.
- Contract Management: Ensuring contracts are effectively negotiated, executed, and monitored for compliance and performance.
Benefits of Our PaaS Solutions
Partnering with Quantum 360 for your procurement needs offers several advantages:
- Cost Savings: Achieve significant reductions in procurement costs through strategic sourcing and process improvements.
- Access to Expertise: Leverage our team’s extensive knowledge and experience in procurement best practices and market trends.
- Scalability: Adjust procurement resources in response to market demands without the need for internal restructuring.
- Enhanced Efficiency: Implement streamlined processes and advanced technologies to improve procurement cycle times.
- Risk Mitigation: Benefit from robust risk management strategies that ensure compliance and minimise supply chain disruptions.
Social Value & ESG Procurement
At Quantum 360, we integrate social value and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations into our Procurement as a Service offering, helping organisations achieve both commercial objectives and sustainability goals:
- ESG Strategy Development: Creating procurement frameworks that align with your organisation’s sustainability commitments and regulatory requirements.
- Supplier Diversity Programmes: Implementing strategies to engage with diverse suppliers, including small businesses, minority-owned enterprises, and social enterprises.
- Carbon Footprint Reduction: Identifying opportunities within your supply chain to reduce emissions and environmental impact through targeted sourcing strategies.
- Social Value Measurement: Developing metrics and reporting mechanisms to quantify and communicate the social impact of procurement decisions.
- Ethical Supply Chain Management: Ensuring suppliers adhere to ethical labour practices, human rights standards, and environmental regulations throughout the supply chain.
- Sustainable Innovation: Collaborating with suppliers to develop more sustainable products, services, and delivery models that reduce waste and environmental impact.
By incorporating social value and ESG principles into your procurement function, you not only meet increasing regulatory requirements and stakeholder expectations but also drive long-term business value through enhanced reputation, risk reduction, and innovative supplier relationships. Our expertise helps transform procurement from a purely commercial function into a strategic lever for positive social and environmental impact.
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Case studies
How We Saved £100m & Built Long-Term Supplier Partnerships For A Client
Our client – a public sector body, was delivering a major infrastructure project who needed to establish longer term, more integrated relationships with a small group of trusted suppliers.
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From Strategy To Execution: We Delivered Successful Processes For Government & Partner Transition
Quantum 360 was engaged by an Arm’s Length Body (with Royal Charter status) of a Government Department to support them in procuring their programme delivery partners.
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