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For Chief Procurement Officers, heads of supply chain, sourcing leaders and operating partners

Negotiate from bottom-up manufacturing physics, not supplier quotes.

Unbundle vendor quotes without changing drawings or certifications, claw back expired tooling amortization and commodity surcharges, and map sub-tier foundry and material dependencies before they halt production.

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The pressure on your team

Suppliers know their cost structure; most buyers only see the historical invoice.

Across machined, moulded, stamped, electronic and chemical categories, suppliers routinely keep billing mould and die amortization after volume thresholds are met, hold onto peak energy or freight surcharges, and fail to credit closed-loop metallic scrap. Meanwhile, multiple direct vendors often depend on the same upstream sub-tier plant.

  • Supplier price increases accepted without bottom-up raw-material, cycle-time and scrap-credit models.
  • Expired tooling amortization and temporary inflation surcharges embedded in unit prices year after year.
  • Single-point sub-tier foundry, alloy and chemical dependencies hidden behind assembly vendors.

What your team receives

Work you can take into the room.

Four-layer parametric component should-cost models

Bottom-up clean-sheet models decomposing raw material net of scrap credits, machine cycle physics, tooling amortization and normalized overhead—holding physical specs constant.

Expired tooling and surcharge clawback scripts

SKU-by-SKU negotiation fact packs showing where cumulative shipments have already paid off mould and die capex or where mill indices have fallen.

Sub-tier bottleneck maps and factory dwell audits

Multi-tier supply-chain dependency graphs exposing shared upstream plants, paired with shop-floor dwell versus active machining audits to compress lead times.

Capabilities

Choose a place to start.

Outcome programs for procurement and supply chain

Working Capital & Margin RecoveryShould-Cost & Supply-Chain ResilienceOpportunity Assessment & Tender CaptureAll six outcomes

How to start

One question, a fixed fee, a first read in days.

Your question
One live question, with the decision it serves.
What comes back
A reviewed answer with a point of view (a ranked shortlist, a diagnostic or a plan), with every source and anything unverified flagged.
The fee
The fee is fixed and agreed before work starts.
The timing
A first read in days, not weeks, then the reviewed brief on the date we agree.

We can provide regular research updates after the first project.

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Anonymized engagements

Research used in real work.

Anonymized examples of delivered work.

$22M

Found $22M in component markups across 5 anchor SKU families (14–23% unit-cost cut) from paid-off tooling and uncredited scrap, with zero spec changes.

14–18% markups

Found 14–18% intermediary trading-house markups across two-thirds of fabric spend and over 20% negative-margin core SKUs at a multi-banner apparel retailer.

$10M+ spares

$10M+ cash release found in pooled depot maintenance spares alongside immediate turnaround contractor rate cuts.

How we work together

Your method. AI research, analyst-checked.

  1. 01

    Frame the question

    Together, we agree the decision, research scope, inputs and what a useful answer looks like.

  2. 02

    Build the evidence

    AI agents gather company and industry evidence around your criteria, peer set and permitted sources, and cite every source.

  3. 03

    Explain what matters

    Our analysts check the agents’ work: they challenge the findings, check peers and calculations, and flag anything unverified before the brief reaches your review.

Start with one question

Which component category, vendor renewal or bill of materials should we clean-sheet first?

Tell us what you’re investigating and when you need an answer. We’ll discuss the scope, inputs and research that would help.

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