Part of our Procurement as a Service portfolio
Our streamlined cost reduction service, aimed at mid-size companies with a procurement indirect spend of £1m-100m, uses an award-winning procurement model that avoids lengthy RFPs and delivers fast returns.
Our Cost Reduction and Procurement service is run by Simon Jones. He has over 30 years of experience as a commercial and procurement consultant, leading and transforming functions in companies of all sizes.
What are your ongoing
Cost Challenges?
Common problems our service will fix:
- Companies outgrow their internal procurement capabilities
- Lack of control on supplier spend and spiraling costs in chain
- Complex and inefficient supply chains (long tail of smaller or legacy suppliers)
- Internal bias to supplier solutions (regardless of suitability or cost)
- Lack of knowledge on supplier options and market rates
- Lack of resource to fully assess and address procurement spend
- Long drawn-out RFPs to change suppliers
Helping you
Grow your business
Our cost reduction service uses an award-winning model to benchmark and then optimise your supply chain for the fastest returns:
- Resource light and independent service
- Rapid assessment of suppliers and cost benchmarking to find best market pricing
- Comprehensive reporting on suppliers across categories, including information on contracts, renewals, licenses, and usage
- Access to our best-in-class network of preferred suppliers to reduce cost and improve service levels
- Pricing assessment (includes contract register, spend tree, category benchmarks and plan, initial audit and monthly update reports)
- Rapid introduction and assessment of alternative suppliers (bypassing slow and cumbersome RFP process)
- Support with migration of services to new suppliers ahead of renewal
Case Study
Procurement review
We were commissioned by a telecoms company to review and execute a procurement strategy to make short- to long-term cost reduction gains across standard categories.

BEFORE: Telecoms spend (Voice & Data) in year £190,369
We reviewed spend and made several improvement to the chain, recommending transfer to our network of preferred suppliers where necessary and appropriate. The board accepted our changes and we helped with the migration strategy.
AFTER: Delivered a saving of 42% = £79,378
On a multiple of x10 this is equivalent
to £790k in equity value in year
Bringing years of world class experience to your next project
Benefits of our model
Resource Light
Resource light and independent service that is tailored to your exact needs
Fast Assessment
Rapid assessment of suppliers and cost benchmarking to find best market pricing
Reporting
Comprehensive reporting on suppliers across categories, including information on contracts, renewals, licenses, and usage
Network of Suppliers
Access to our best-in-class network of preferred suppliers to reduce cost and optimise your service levels
Pricing Assessment
Pricing assessment includes: contract register, spend tree, category benchmarks, initial audit & monthly update reports
Quick Migration
Rapid introduction and assessment of alternative suppliers (bypassing slow and cumbersome RFP process)
Our Cost Reduction service is led by Simon Jones
Cost Reduction Expert
Simon has over 30 years’ experience as a commercial and procurement consultant, leading and transforming procurement functions. He has extensive CPO experience with major blue-chip companies.
For the past 12 years, Simon has specialised in delivering consultancy and advisory services to the Private Equity sector, where he has developed his award-winning procurement model and service. He has held leadership positions in high profile companies for a number of industry sectors including, banking with Citigroup, consultancy with PWC, leisure with Rank Organisation and telecoms with Telewest and TalkTalk.
A Fellow and Chartered member of both the Chartered Management Institute and The Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply, he has also been a member of the CIPS council and the CIPS Fellows Committee.
Our team can be your team
Our Cost Reduction team includes a range of global experts with experience in procurement, cost reduction, project management and contract management.
The Carrier Club
Our services also give access to the Carrier Club, a membership service that uses a Procurement as a Service model. Members of the Club benefit from an aggregated spend with suppliers, allowing us to leverage better commercial terms on your behalf.
Our Cost Reduction Experts
Eric Green
Eric has over 30 years’ experience, beginning in Australia, Asia and the South Pacific and then the UK. His senior consultancy roles have included an advisory role to the procurement team at Liberty Global, and, as global telecoms advisor to the IWG group, the development of best-practice procurement in over 120 countries.
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Case Studies
Our team has had the privilege of partnering with a diverse array of clients, from burgeoning startups to FTSE 100
companies. Each case study reflects our commitment to delivering tailored solutions that drive real business results.
A little bit about Cambridge MC
Cambridge Management Consulting is a specialist consultancy drawing on an extensive global network of over 220 senior executives in 26 countries.
Our purpose is to help our clients have a better impact on the world.
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