About Our Sponsors

Efficio

Efficio is a results-focused procurement consultancy, with a track record of helping leading organisations achieve more value from their procurement. Whether the challenge is delivering significant savings to the bottom line or managing suppliers to create value for the longer term, Efficio provides a range of client-tailored services including:

• Procurement Opportunity Assessment
• Strategic Sourcing Execution
• People and Process Development
• Procurement Transformation
• Managed Procurement Services

Comprised of experienced professionals with a blue-chip consultancy heritage, Efficio combines the credentials of a top tier firm, with the depth of expertise and execution of a flexible niche player. With offices in the UK, Germany, France and Switzerland and a growing operation in the USA, we service clients from a broad range of sectors throughout Europe and the United States.

To learn more, please visit www.efficioconsulting.com or call +44 (0)20 7550 5677

Tata Consultancy Services

About Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS)
Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organisation that delivers real results to global business, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT, BPO, infrastructure, engineering and assurance services. This is delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model™, recognised as the benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the Tata group, India’s largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has a global footprint.

TCS' Procurement Advisory Services are committed to delivering strategic procurement transformation. We help global organisations leverage investments and technologies, towards profit enhancements. Our IT and business change management know-how enables you to maximise your IT returns, transform your procurement to a strategic function and deliver cost reduction priorities. Moreover, we align your procurement policy, strategy and delivery to help you achieve organisation objectives. For more information, visit us at www.tcs.com or write to us at uk.info@tcs.com

Oracle Procurement

 

Oracle Procurement reduces spending on goods and services, streamlines procure-to-pay processes, and drives policy compliance.

• Only Oracle provides packaged integration of procurement functions with financial management and ERP suites
• Only Oracle gives customers the flexibility to leverage applications on-demand and, on-premises, in any combination needed to achieve procurement objectives
• Only Oracle offers an integrated suite that fully supports "source-to-settle" processes for all categories of spend, including capital goods, direct materials, indirect goods, and services. This includes solutions for: Spend Analysis, Strategic Sourcing, Contract Management, Procure-to-Pay and Supplier Information Management.

 

Enrich - An Oracle Platinum Partner

Enrich helps organisations squeeze value out of Oracle technology. Starting with Procurement, Enrich enables savings realisation across Supply Chain and Financials, by leveraging flexible technology – deployed on premise or in the cloud –coupled with procurement expertise to help drive success.

Enrich is the leading Business Process Services partner of Oracle, as well as a certified Platinum Partner. In addition, Enrich is represented on Oracle’s Customer Advisory Board. In March 2013, e-Three Ltd and enrichIT LLC merged to become Enrich.

Xchanging

 

 

Xchanging Procurement Services (XPS) exists to help you deliver superior procurement performance that aligns with your business objectives. With an end-to-end portfolio of capabilities from Sourcing and Spend Management through to Procure-to-Pay we ensure that savings, policy compliance and cost efficiency benefits are embedded in your business. This creates competitive advantage by lowering your costs of sale and administrative expenses and providing your executives the space to focus on strategic activities that add value to the business.

 

With a global team of specialists of over 600 we are based close to you with offices in the UK, across Continental Europe, North America and Asia. We have saved over £400 million for our customers, conducted over 6,000 sourcing events and process on £5 billion of transactional procurement processes each year.

 

Our success is built on an exceptional sourcing capability across the world combined with deep process and change management capabilities to help our clients realise the true value that excellent procurement delivers.

 

Xchanging plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE:XCH) and has over 7,500 employees in ten countries, providing services to customers in 48 countries. Our aim is to improve the performance of our customers’ operational processes. This means secure, reliable and efficient business processing, allowing our customers more time to focus on their core business. We specialise in Procurement, Insurance, Financial Services and Technology with processing skills and capabilities applicable to other vertical industry and market sectors.