TUC Procurement Project
The Project – TUC Supporting affiliates with procurement “TUC affiliates, particularly smaller unions, can struggle with internal improvements to make their unions operate more efficiently and more effectively. If we provide easy shortcuts and work together in...
Different Approaches To Your Profit Margin
Different Approaches To Your Profit Margin Indirect spend, (usually the same for most companies – insurance, vehicles, buildings and buildings maintenance, utilities, IT, telephony, and so on) often adds up to 40% or more of an organisation's outgoings. Surprisingly...
Budgeting for Your Charity’s Costs During the Recession
How are you forecasting your budgets in the recession? The way this recession is evolving means there is no realistic way, yet, to forecast an ‘end-date’ by when the economy will return to some sort of normal and start the long recovery process to reverse the damage...
Your Business Energy: Don’t Get Caught Out By Rollover Rates!
Your Business Energy: Don’t Get Caught Out By Rollover Rates! As a busy business owner, you may feel there are not enough hours in the day to secure your next energy contract. You know you’ll get around to it, but when you’ll get around to it is another matter. But...
Controlling Your Costs During The Recession
Controlling Your Costs During The Recession The UK is undoubtedly heading into a severe recession as a result of Covid-19, one which is likely to be more damaging than the last one in 2008. One effect of this is that suppliers are in the same boat and keen to future...
Should Organisations work together to reduce spend?
Almost all charities have similar requirements for their goods and services – why not use some of that common demand to create better leverage on your price negotiations? If you review your spend profile you will find there are numerous common areas of goods and...
Utilities – Case Study
We were approached by a residential charity with multiple care homes across a wide geographical area and asked to review their energy contracts. Each of these had numerous suppliers for gas and electricity, heating oil and LPG, all on different rates, all on different...
Working With Brokers and The Brokers Clients
Approach Working with Broker Network as an Affiliate Partner, ProVantage can offer specialist Purchasing support for the Broker Members – and for the Members’ own insurance customers. This enables the Broker to be able to offer more to their Proposition than just the...
Covid In The Workplace
Covid in the Workplace - The Current Position The UK is still in the grip of the Coronavirus outbreak & the most recent briefing from PHE suggested that 13 variants were under monitoring, eight under investigation and five were ‘variants of concern’. In short,...
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