Overview - Consulting Services

We offer a range of services to support clients in their drive to improve efficiency and thereby financial performance (profit improvement and return on assets/capital). Our consulting services can be summarised into four key focus areas:

Procurement Efficiency

Portland’s Procurement Efficiency services improve clients’ return on assets by:

• Effective sourcing of goods and services and optimisation of the procure to pay process and systems
• Developing category management and demand management capabilities for sustainable benefit delivery
• Effective supplier relationship management and supplier development
• Effective use of procurement outsourcing and global sourcing where applicable
• Developing procurement organisational capabilities to drive performance

Typical benefit: 5–40% of purchased goods and services

Supply Chain Efficiency

Supply chain efficiency services improve return on assets by:

• Improving the cost and efficiency of making, holding and transporting materials to distributors or end customers
• Optimising supply chain planning processes including demand, supply (materials), distribution, inventory and S&OP
• Maximising margin through ensuring the right product is available to sell to a customer at an appropriate price at a given point in time

Typical benefit: 3–30% of operations costs

Asset Efficiency

Portland’s Asset Efficiency services improve clients’ return on assets by:

• Reducing the fixed assets required to manufacture and distribute products to meet the customer value proposition
• Optimising inventory in the network to achieve the best combination of velocity, product availability and trade working capital

Typical benefit: 5-40% of asset related costs

Organisation Efficiency

Portland’s Organisation Efficiency services improve clients’ return on assets by:

• Sustainably reducing the fixed costs required to deliver current business objectives
• Identifying and transitioning services and production to more efficient outsource providers where appropriate
• Applying business improvement and redesign principles to organisational processes to improve quantum and quality of output

Typical benefit: 10-80% of related costs