Thursday, 20 Nov 2008

Case Studies

Portland Group possesses an extensive list of satisfied clients. Our success ranges across a wide cross-section of industries and assignments, from large corporate-wide strategic sourcing programs through to redesigning national logistics networks.

Client Industry Focus Business Challenge
  Consumer Goods Cost to Serve Cost to Serve analysis allowed this FMCG client to understand, monitor and initiate cost to serve improvements during a period of significant supply chain reform
  Manufacturing Cost to Serve Cost to Serve analysis allowed this industrial manufacturer to understand its profitability and cost structure to drive significant operational decisions and strategies
  Financial Services Demand & Category Management Portland deployed an innovative model to improve the management of recruitment services spend for our client, delivering benefits of over 10%
  Retail Distribution Optimisation Through a network restructure, freight review and optimisation, Portland was able to achieve annual savings of more than $4M for a leading retail client
  Building Materials Distribution Optimisation Portland worked closely with this Building Materials organisation to reduce its $100M logistics spend by more than 10%
  Steel Distribution Optimisation Portland assisted one of Australia's leading steel manufacturers to achieve a step change in its logistics costs
  Building Materials Organisational Development Portland assisted one of Australia's leading building materials manufacturers to refocus procurement and drive significant value
  Manufacturing Organisational Development Portland assisted one of Australia's leading manufacturers to develop its global Procurement organisation
  Healthcare Policies & Systems Portland re-engineered our Healthcare client's procure to pay process to ensure significant benefits identified from a "rapid deployment" cost reduction process were sustained
  Building Materials Strategic Sourcing Portland helped a national building materials company to achieve a 14% reduction in spend on industrial, electrical and safety consumables
  Building Materials Strategic Sourcing Portland's strategic sourcing and panel management approach to engineering contractors secured supply of skilled services whilst delivering >10% annually for a leading manufacturer
  Financial Services Strategic Sourcing Portland assisted our client to aggregate their legal spend across five autonomous business divisions to deliver over $5M in annual benefits
  FMCG Strategic Sourcing Portland assisted a major food manufacturer to better align its key marketing relationships with the outcomes it was targeting for its key brands
  Manufacturing Strategic Sourcing Portland's strategic sourcing and supply chain redesign for a national building products business delivered benefits of over 20% against the previous cost base
  Financial Services Strategic Sourcing We assisted a Financial Services client to review their global IT hardware spend, identifying a 38% cost down opportunity with improved services and value add
  Agribusiness Supply Chain Planning Portland's redesign of our client's supply chain planning processes delivered $20M in annual cost savings and significant inventory reductions