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Sourcing Advisory
Offshoring Back Office Operations (BPO)
The client wanted to offshore its back-office processes from Sweden to India. Requirements for supplier was CSR and good employee working conditions, and a clear governance structure with an agreement that covers all client objectives, and is compliant with all applicable regulations.
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Industry: Financial Services
Cost Optimization
Procurement Savings Program
The client wanted to significantly reduce its cost base as a response to market and technology challenges. The project was on a success fee.
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Industry: Media & Entertainment
Procurement Transformation
Transformation of an energy sector pioneer
Background
Following the deregulation of public procurement in the utilities sector, our client aimed to become the top procurement organization in the energy sector. This objective was supported by several strategic reviews, both top-down and bottom-up, which identified significant untapped potential in procurement.Challenge
The challenge was to streamline processes and reduce the dependency on consultants. To achieve this goal, it was necessary to enhance efficiency and speed up the value creation of the procurement organization.Find out more
Industry: Power & Utilities
Procurement Transformation
Harmonizing S2P and Implementing System Support
The client wanted to increase harmonization, efficiency, and automation within procurement.
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Industry: Retail
Cost Optimization
Facility Management
The client had low attention on procurement of FM services and needed help to gain control of procurement of FM services and to identify and realize savings potentials.
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Industry: Industrial Goods & Services
Cost Optimization
Opportunity Assessment of Working Capital
The client wanted to create transparency regarding working capital in the organization, and identify improvement areas and improvement initiatives.
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Industry: Media & Entertainment, Private Equity
Cost Optimization
Print & Merchandise Sourcing
The client wanted to consolidate volumes and assure more competitive terms in future agreements.
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Industry: Telecommunications
Cost Optimization
Procurement Transformation
Maturity Assessment of the Procurement Function
The client wanted to increase spend transparency, identify current state of the procurement function, and develop a target state for the future.
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Industry: Infrastructure & Construction
Sourcing Advisory
Finance & Accounting BPO
The client wanted to outsource its Finance & Accounting processes at its European business.
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Industry: Travel & Transportation
Cost Optimization
Sourcing Advisory
Insourcing, vendor managment, and SaaS procurement in HR transformation
The client, driving a large-scale HR transformation, required support with replacement of several business-critical applications (e.g., HR admin, WFM, Payroll), insourcing of outsourced HR services and establishment of an internal Shared Service Center (SSC).
PIR was brought in to advice the program management team on sourcing related enquiries, vendor- and contract management, and to support the client in managing the strong dependencies between contract and deliveries to ensure a successful transformation.
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Industry: Travel & Transportation
Cost Optimization
Sourcing of Payment Solution
The client wanted assistance with conducting a sourcing project to reduce cost.
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Industry: Telecommunications
Procurement Transformation
Maturity Assesment of the Procurement Function
The client wanted to assess its performance, identify development areas through a gap analysis, and PIR to propose corresponding development initiatives.
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Industry: Infrastructure & Construction
Cost Optimization
Third Party Cost Optimization
The client wanted to reduce third-party cost and hired PIR on a success fee-based approach.
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Industry: Media & Entertainment, Private Equity
Sourcing Advisory
IT Outsourcing of Service Desk, Application and Licenses
The client wanted to outsource IT regarding service desk, application, and licenses.
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Industry: Retail
Cost Optimization
Print Sourcing
The client wanted to optimize its supplier base within print and promotional material and reduce the cost.
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Industry: Infrastructure & Construction
Sourcing Advisory
Customer Service Outsourcing
The client wanted to issue and complete an RFP for the Nordic market with the goal of achieving improved quality at maintained cost.
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Industry: Media & Entertainment, Private Equity
Sourcing Advisory
5G Sourcing
The client conducted a modernization and expansion project for LTE and 5G Mobile Network.
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Industry: Telecommunications
Legal Advisory
Creating a Contractual Framework for Partnership
The client wanted assistance in developing a legal contractual framework for partnership entailing a co-development of an industry solution.
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Industry: Industrial Goods & Services
Procurement Transformation
Maturity Assesment of the Procurement Function
The client wanted to asses the current maturity of the procurement function and identify improvement areas and define its future state.
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Industry: Travel & Transportation
Cost Optimization
Sourcing Advisory
Vendor management of critical infrastructure rollout projects
The client, concurrently managing seven business-critical infrastructure rollout projects, had discovered discrepancies in supplier invoicing and delivery. Due to absence of established contract management processes, the suppliers had on several occasions overcharged deliveries and submitted unnecessary change requests that caused delays to the projects' implementation timelines without any consequences. To ensure successful project delivery and increase suppliers' contractual and commercial compliance, the client required support in managing the complex contracts related rollout projects.
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Industry: Telecommunications
Cost Optimization
Procurement of Professional Services
The client wanted to realize savings in consultancy services following existing client framework.
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Industry: Power & Utilities
Procurement Transformation
Digital Procurement Roadmap
The client had a clear focus on making digitalization a strategic priority and created a strategy roadmap. As a part of this Procurement wanted to define its own digital roadmap.
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Industry: Infrastructure & Construction
Sourcing Advisory
Outsourcing of IT Services
The client was looking to outsource its maintenance and development of IT applications, server infrastructure services, service desk, staff transfer, and management of third-party agreements.
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Industry: Financial Services
Cost Optimization
Procurement Transformation
Maturity Assessment of the Procurement Function
The client wanted to increase spend transparency, identify current state of the procurement function, and develop a target state for the future.
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Industry: Telecommunications
Cost Optimization
Facility Management Category Strategy
The client wanted to analyze current facility management services, composed of cleaning, reception, and food and beverages etc. to be able to assess vendor consolidation to reduce cost base.
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Industry: Telecommunications
Cost Optimization
Cost optimization of indirect spend at ICA
Summary
To adapt to a new, more challenging market, ICA underwent a significant cost reduction program and re-organization. As part of this initiative, ICA approached PIR and Aurentor for assistance in reducing their indirect spend. The project had an immediate positive effect on the bottom-line result and will in total reduce ICA’s indirect spend by 300 MSEK. This initiated a change in how ICA works with indirect procurement by introducing category management and instilling confidence when negotiating with suppliers, thereby shifting the scale in favor of ICA.Background
In the face of shifting market trends, with premium assortments and stores giving way to low-cost and budget options, ICA found their position challenged. To remain competitive while managing the inflations raising costs of interest and supply, the company needed an overarching cost transformation. One of the identified cost transformation opportunities was within goods not for retail where ICA hoped to reduce their addressable spend by 5-10%. This target was highly ambitious and demanding, challenging the entire organization to find cross-functional cost opportunities within a decentralized structure. Many tough decisions had to be made with a top-down perspective, while they at the same time needed to stay true to the company's core entrepreneurial values, with bottom-up ownership. Additionally, the company underwent a major reorganization during the cost transformation, which increased uncertainty and raised the decision-making threshold, making cost prioritization difficult.Find out more
Industry: Retail
Legal Advisory
Sourcing Advisory
Legal Advisory for IT Investments
The client wanted legal and sourcing advisory in relation to IT sourcing. Overall aim of the sourcing activity was to secure cost efficiency and risk mitigation.
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Industry: Media & Entertainment
Cost Optimization
Print & Merchandise Sourcing
The client wanted to consolidate volumes and assure more competitive terms in future agreements.
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Industry: Media & Entertainment, Private Equity
Legal Advisory
Creating a Contractual Framework for Sourcing
The client wanted assistance in developing a legal contractual framework for sourcing.
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Industry: Retail
Sourcing Advisory
Network Sourcing
The client wanted to procure a 5G Mobile Network, a cell broadcast system, as well as a back-up power solution for network sites and a monitoring system for site power.
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Industry: Telecommunications
Cost Optimization
Category Strategy Professional Services
The client wanted to develop a category strategy for professional services.
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Industry: Industrial Goods & Services
Legal Advisory
Sourcing Advisory
Network Sourcing
The client wanted to source brownfield establishment with full turnkey installation of LTE RAN, Core and Transmission, as well as full turnkey installation of a post prepaid billing system and additional modules (OSS/BSS).
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Industry: Telecommunications
Cost Optimization
IT Consultancy Procurement
The client wanted to achieve cost reduction on consultancy services and create transparency of existing supplier base and open it up for competition.
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Industry: Telecommunications
Cost Optimization
Third Party Cost Optimization
The client wanted to identify cost saving opportunities and secure a streamlined purchasing process, whilst also making a thorough analysis of existing supplier base and open it up for competition.
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Industry: Private Equity
Legal Advisory
Sourcing Advisory
Contract Due Diligence of Mega Vendors
The client was assessing investment opportunities in new network technology. As a part of this assessment the current contract structure with global contracts connected to national contracts in several countries for networks was assessed by PIR.
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Industry: Telecommunications
Cost Optimization
Sourcing Advisory
Analysis of IS/IT Area From a Global Perspective
The client wanted to analyze and align vendors and contracts to gain control over contracts and compliance. In addition, the client wanted contract governance for top five contracts, and a renegotiation plan for the upcoming 6 months, as well as the upcoming 3 years.
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Industry: Industrial Goods & Services
Sourcing Advisory
Outsourcing Infrastructure Operations, Service Desk and End User Services
The client wanted to outsource its infrastructure operations covering datacenter and core platform services, including service desk and end-user services, IT services for 5800 workstations and moving from on-premise to cloud solution.
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Industry: Retail
Cost Optimization
Technical Consultancy Cost Reduction
The client wanted assistance in establishing category strategy for technical consultancy services, conducting a sourcing project to reduce cost, reducing supplier base, and minimizing risk by harmonizing terms and conditions.
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Industry: Power & Utilities
Cost Optimization
Sourcing Advisory
Vendor & Contract Managment core system transformation and system outsourcing
The client, undergoing an operating model transformation, required support in a workstream related to a core system transformation and legacy system outsourcing, to reach full potential of scale and efficiency.
PIR was brought in to set-up governance structures and manage commercial and contractual compliance of the external system integrator (driving implementation and system roll-out) and outsourcing partner (taking over services for existing legacy platforms).
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Industry: Financial Services
Sourcing Advisory
Network Sourcing
The client needed assistance in the procurement of telecom networks.
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Industry: Telecommunications
Cost Optimization
Impact Analysis of Switching Workplace Solution
The client wanted an objective and unbiased evaluation of the potential impact of replacing the current Microsoft 365 solution package with Google Workspace.
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Industry: Infrastructure & Construction
Cost Optimization
IT Consultancy Procurement
The client wanted to achieve cost reduction from existing IT consultant suppliers.
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Industry: Telecommunications
Legal Advisory
Sourcing Advisory
Outsourcing of Service Desk and End User Services
The client wanted to outsource a large share of its ICT operations. The objective was to aquire a turnkey service solution for the service desk and end user service functions, together with business application support from a sole supplier.
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Industry: Industrial Goods & Services
Sourcing Advisory
Business Process Outsourcing
The client wanted to reduce costs and handling times connected to business processes.
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Industry: Financial Services
Cost Optimization
Procurement Transformation
Cost Control Analysis
The client wanted to gather an as-is understanding of cost control practices, originating from two legacy organizations following a recent merger, and identify improvement areas.
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Industry: Media & Entertainment, Private Equity