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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.

“I want to say thank you for your effort and that of your team, as I think we now have a much better and more operational contract. And with better pricing. So, I think that you – and your team – managed to deliver a result that matches “what success looks like”, as SSES started out by asking me.”

Head of IT Operations, Major European Provider of Payments, Card, and Information Services

Project – major outsourcing renegotiation

“I wanted to send a quick thanks to you for getting the Oracle licensing deal over the line last week.  By all accounts it was an intense team effort and we landed in a place that wouldn’t have been possible without you all coming together.”

Chief Technology and Operations Officer, Major International Bank
Project – Renegotiation of large Oracle enterprise licenses

“We have worked with the team from SSES for the last few years and they have consistently delivered significant value across our supplier base. They have been able to improve our agreements and save us hundreds of millions of dollars in categories ranging from financial services, to key software and hardware relationships, to facilities management, and critical outsourcing and professional services arrangements. They focus on areas where they have expertise and experience and they deliver results quickly. They have been true partners in the work I have to do running the bank.”

COO, Major European Bank
Projects – more than thirty over six years

“Wanted to send a short note to thank you and the team for the tremendous help over the last few months to help us get to this outcome. We have a great result financially but more important the foundation to move forward into our modernization agenda. This strategy only continues to gather momentum so will be exciting times ahead, hard work but some important outcomes that will drive our business forward post Covid-19.”

CIO, Major international bank
Project – major infrastructure outsourcing renegotiation

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.

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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.

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Ready to learn how SSES Global can help you with your critical supplier relationships?

Paul Kaplan

paul.kaplan@ssesglobal.com

Thomas Kelly

thomas.kelly@ssesglobal.com

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