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Strategic Procurement

Reduce Costs, Enhance Supplier Optionality, Reduce Supply Risk, and Improve Profitability, Service & Quality

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Maine Pointe's Strategic Procurement Optimization Approach

Maine Pointe's approach to strategic procurement optimization implements our rigorous six-step process to achieve measurable, sustainable improvements not only in cost but also quality, service, speed to market, compliance, supplier risk and verification.

Our approach leverages Maine Pointe’s data analytics, strategic procurement, leader & organization improvement, and industry supply chain subject matter expertise supported by SGS's market-leading testing, inspection and verification capabilities located across 140 countries.

We profile spend in detail creating category-specific cross-functional teams (Maine Pointe and client), breaking through functional silos and transforming procurement into a high-value integrated strategic procurement function.

We employ a rigorous benchmarking, baseline and evaluation process to ensure the client can track the achievement of savings and benefits, and we install a digitally-enabled procurement management operating system (PMOS) to ensure they continue to drive sustainable results, as part of our Total Value Optimization™ approach to value creation.

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Benefits

  • Improve profitability through reduced cost of goods sold (COGS)
  • Reduce total cost of ownership
  • Enhance supplier performance and relationship management allowing for collaborative cost optimization and value creation
  • Increase supplier optionality and risk mitigation
  • Improve cost, quality, price and supplier compliance visibility
  • Maintain profitability through ongoing benchmarking of your value chain and cost base against your competitors
  • Eliminate silos and drive cross-functional alignment
  • Drive measurable improvements in cost, cash, resilience and growth ​

Our Approach to Supply Chain & Operations Transformation:

Total Value Optimization (TVO)

We break through functional silos and take you to high performance

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Most supply chains operate in functional silos and struggle to keep pace in today’s rapidly changing world.

  1. We assess where you are today.
  2. Build a pragmatic ROI-driven improvement plan.
  3. Implement measurable sustainable change.

Our goal?

To help you deliver the greatest value to customers and stakeholders at the lowest cost and risk to business. We call this Total Value Optimization.

TVO Advantages

How we work with you

Maine Pointe delivers compelling results

Analyze

Analyze

Our rapid insights and analysis provide a clear proof-of-claim study to demonstrate benefits, along with a jointly developed implementation roadmap outlining activities, timelines, and resources. We also deliver a financial business case that defines investment needs and expected returns.
Implement

Implement

We collaborate closely with your team to drive accelerated, measurable improvements in profitability, cash, resilience, and growth—backed by our unique guarantee. By aligning leadership and operations with strategic goals, we enhance processes, teams, and behaviors to ensure lasting impact.
Sustain

Sustain

After engagement, we continue to drive value by periodically reviewing performance, providing training, and ensuring ongoing visibility through your Supply Chain Control Tower. We also conduct testing, inspection, and
certification programs to enhance resilience and compliance.
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Strategic Procurement Success Stories

Driving measurable and sustainable change

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What Our Clients Say

Experience the difference

Improving Profitability, Cash, Resilience & Growth

The engagement generated significant measurable results, including transformational change, forward looking KPIs to predict the business, margin improvement, and value to customers and shareholders.

Brad Feldmann, CEO, Cubic

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Measurable improvement in EBITDA

The SGS Maine Pointe engagement helped us drive the highest level of revenue ever and drove measurable improvement in EBITDA through manufacturing rationalization and sourcing optimization.

Kirk Goins, CEO, Luminator Technology Group

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Perspective Paper

TVO Procurement: Moving beyond the historic orientation on controlling cost in procurement

Why Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is no longer enough
  • Taking a more strategic approach to procurement and value creation
  • Checklist for making the move to Total Value OptimizationTM (TVO)
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“I am happy to report that we were able to accomplish significant savings benefits, gain transparency into our spend and supplier relationships as well as establish the groundwork for sustainable value as a result of Maine Pointe’s Total Value Optimization™ approach."

Richard McEvoy
CEO, Vantage Specialty Chemicals


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