Thoughtful Collaboration
for Supply Chain Excellence
Producing Results With Impact
Best Overall Value in Client Supplier Relationships
We are innovative, results-driven supply chain professionals. We believe that supplier performance improvement starts with analytics, thoughtful collaboration, and a shattering of the status quo. Every day, we leverage the knowledge and relationships developed from more than 50 years of combined leadership in the industry to help the world’s largest companies improve the performance of their suppliers and to optimize the related contracts.
Strategic Sourcing, Expense Solutions
From assessing market competitiveness to negotiation to execution and analytics, we use our deep, unparalleled understanding of industry best practices to craft customized, enduring solutions that save our clients hundreds of millions of dollars every year.
Your Sourcing Partner
We understand what is at stake with major supplier engagements. We take the time to understand the nuances in every supplier relationship and challenge. We leverage our long-term relationships with the world’s largest suppliers in financial services, IT, professional services and outsourcing to ensure our clients have the most cost-effective and service delivery focused solution possible. The result is a close and collaborative partnership that produces measurable results and helps our clients build best-in-class supplier programs and strengthen their internal sourcing capabilities.
We negotiate pricing, service, and other terms and conditions that are industry best.
Our services include:
- Complete Assessment of supplier relationships
- Market intelligence and Benchmarking
- Category assessment and strategy development
- Spend analytics
- Supplier engagement and negotiations
- Functional assessments
- Post-contract support
- Software asset management
- Software audit defense and preparation
What Our Clients Say
The best testimonial we have is repeat engagement by our suppliers.
Here are some of their comments.
Meet our Founders
Our leadership team has more than 50 years of combined experience with top U.S. banks and Fortune 100 companies.
Learn more about our founders here.
Thomas Kelly
Managing Director
Thomas has over twenty-five years of sourcing leadership in financial services and IT. He spent twelve years with major Financial Institutions, and was chief Procurement Officer at Wells Fargo/Wachovia. Prior to that, he was head of IT sourcing at JPMorgan/Bank One. He is passionate about managing and developing great supply chain talent and world-class supplier relationships.
Paul Kaplan
Managing Director
Paul has an extensive background in SW licensing strategies, compliance, asset management, and contract negotiations. He assists clients in establishing sourcing strategies that will optimize value, mitigate risk in long-term contracts, and avoid unplanned expense from compliance exposures.