Focus through partnering

Market and financial pressures are leading CxOs to call on best-practice procurement methodologies to create sustainable value, either to improve profits or as fuel for growth.  As a consequence, skilled resources are required to specialise on core activities often leaving the spend tail or indirect categories to be worked on as and when possible. 

Whilst there are several strategies available to the CPO or Procurement Director to extract value from the procurement lifecycle outsourcing can be a source of direct benefits such as cost savings and efficiency gains, and indirect benefits like access to category expertise and skills transfer, all of which deliver fast benefits realisation.

Atos offers an end-to-end service to help our clients derive maximum value from procurement outsourcing. Our award-winning procurement solutions range from strategic consultancy through to fully-managed services.

Our services are structured to address each point of avoidable cost in the procurement lifecycle from competitively negotiated pricing to minimising transaction costs.  They work comprehensively as a suite, or independently as discrete modules.

Our procurement solutions deliver significant cost-savings and process improvement to our clients, who benefit from:

Transactional Procurement	Managed Procurement	Strategic Procurement
Lower cost of purchase to pay operations	Reduced risk through appropriately validated suppliers	Strategic staff able to focus on core activities
Better process and policy compliance	Better visibility of spend	Access to our category expertise
Leveraging the collective purchasing power of Atos	Access to third party analysts	Reducing pricing
Cost avoidance	Tighter control of budgets and improved forecasting	Better spend compliance
Reduced supply chain costs	Access to our supply chain knowledge	Enhanced demand controls

Why choose Atos?

We have a wealth of experience in delivering procurement outsourcing programmes in the private and public sector, helping our clients to reduce their procurement costs on average by 8%-18% and in one-off instances in excess of 30%. 

Our procurement services practitioners have attained, or are working towards attaining Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (CIPS) qualifications and are led by experienced procurement consultants and managers. 

We have extensive relationships with some of the world’s leading manufacturers and suppliers of IT hardware, software and services and we are one of the few BPO service providers that offer a ‘Gain Share’ service model.