Large capital investment programmes and efficient operational maintenance services are required to ensure continuous supply of services and excellent customer service.
Given the importance of large-scale capital infrastructure renewal, there is often difficulty in expanding the client’s influence and visibility across the extended supply chain. However, our experience in this area shows the risks that can be embedded in this supply chain and the value that can be unlocked through more effective procurement strategies and processes. Excellent procurement is thus crucial to meeting these challenges.
Efficio has sourced that majority of spend category many times, from complex capital expenditure programmes to operating expenditure, and has a deep understanding of the supply markets and cost-drivers as well as of the regulatory environment. Best practices are readily transferable across companies and sectors, enabling rapid improvement.
Value generation
We recognise that procurement needs to be at the heart of driving cost efficiency in both Opex and Capex. We create value across the whole contract life-cycle from procurement strategy through contract and Supplier Relationship Management, encouraging innovation and fuelling continuous improvement in cost, quality and performance.
Our expertise
Efficio has worked with many clients in the Energy and Utilities sector. Our achievements for clients include a two-year Procurement Transformation for an electricity grid company in the UK and US, generating £160 million of annualised savings from a £2 billion spend; a seven-year partnership with a water company, sourcing over £500 million per annum of Opex and a £7 billion Capex programme and achieving double-digit cost reductions against baselines.
These figures are not just the result of intelligent sourcing. Efficio helps sustain performance by creating long-lasting transformations of skills and supply chain processes. We go deeper, to understand and tackle the root causes of inefficiency. We develop innovative procurement strategies, introduce new procurement operating models, re-engineer demand requirements and work hard to ensure new processes are truly embedded in the company.
Cutting-edge technology
Our work with Energy and Utility companies is supported by our technological abilities which support the entire procurement lifecycle. For a number of infrastructure clients we have built a cost management application which helps manage the construction costs from demand forecasting right through to supplier invoicing. This solution not only ensures construction companies charge the right amounts but also creates demand forecasts which are notoriously hard to do in the Infrastructure sector.
In addition, our proprietary procurement platform eFlow allows Procurement teams to manage spend, run eSourcing events, manage contracts and manage performance all through a single application.
Efficio’s success in delivering both significant financial benefits and long-lasting transformations of skills and supply base performance have been recognised by many industry and professional awards as well as by clients.
Key Contacts
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Ian Bolger
Vice President
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Ian McNally
Vice President
Efficio's rigorous process of identifying areas of improvement and obtaining best value from the market is considered to be market leading within the industry.
Efficio delivered a real step-change in our cost base: even the suppliers commented on the professionalism of the process. The team worked incredibly hard – and it was a great example of the ‘art of the possible’.
