Innovative Management Solutions for Your INDIRECT PROCUREMENT

    MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, November 02, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Epago Group is founded on the basis that leading procurement management delivers a significant impact to an organisation's bottom line profit by strategically managing third party spend and expenses. We do this by using the partners' experiences across various corporations and environments to deliver unique solutions which break the traditional sourcing mould.

The ability to buy better and at less cost is most relevant in today's environment where most organisations have significant cost cutting agendas. Whilst cutting cost by reducing demand and price is seen by some as the answer, leading organisations are focusing on a multi-tiered approach. Organisations are reducing costs by better buying, consolidating buying, implementing smarter processes and managing demand to deliver immediate and real savings that are sustainable over the long term.

Epago Group is a leading sourcing and procurement solutions company providing focused procurement consulting, managed services (business process outsourcing) and standard offerings that deliver a totally Integrated Sourcing Solution to client.

Epago Group has a wealth of knowledge and experience in the management of indirect supply categories. Epago Team all distinguish themselves by bringing strong business backgrounds and have a mix of experience through all sides of procurement.

Our Directors have extensive corporate buyer procurement backgrounds, senior level relationships across a wide supplier group and combined, have experience across all indirect categories. We also have access to a wide network of procurement professionals (that we contract as needed) that possess specialised industry experience across a number of indirect categories - including business services, People and Professional services, IT & telecommunications, warehouse and supply chain logistics and specialised procurement including medical services, critical response etc.

Alongside this we have Alliance arrangements with a number of "like minded" organisations that we have selected to ensure we provide our clients with a high level of specialised and diverse capability from the one consultant relationship.

These partners include specialists in:
1. Spend analytic services for procurement
2. Procurement benchmarking
3. Sustainable Procurement solutions
4. BI dashboard reporting
5. Business and manufacturing re-engineering and improvement, outsourcing, lean and six sigma

With these in place our focus is to work flexible, lean and be able to adapt to any of our client' s requirements.

Indirect categories often do not receive enough attention because internal resources are both time and information-starved. When adequate time or resources cannot be devoted to strategically source the appropriate suppliers and establish the required procurement arrangements, you start out at a great disadvantage. Further, without the time and resources to manage the ongoing relationships with suppliers the initial disadvantages can be multiplied many times over.

Even where reasonable arrangements are established initially, ongoing management is essential to ensure the organisation reaps the benefits from the arrangement.

This is the very reason the Epago exists to bring professional procurement expertise and consistency of ongoing management to an organisations supply arrangements.

Epago Group assists clients to drive & deliver procurement results:
1. We are Indirect Procurement Experts. Epago is a national organisation with a combined 60 years of hands-on 'blue chip' BUYER procurement experience.
2. You will have the full benefit of OUR deep category experience and knowledge across all indirect categories.
3. We have consistently saved an average 17.5% across indirect categories.
4. We have in place alliances providing us scale and added capability to act swiftly.

The Epago team have implemented major LOCAL and GLOBAL procurement projects and know and have dealt with the challenges these bring.

Epago Group works with its client to uncover client requirements, priorities, and needs. In the interim, the Epago Group set out to apply its extensive corporate buyer experience and industry knowledge to set out a unique pathway for its client that is best practice and most suited to their client's need.

Our team is committed to earning our clients' trust and we work to develop long term relationships. We continually strive to improve by challenging current standards and incumbent solutions.

Epago brings to their clients innovation, improved processes and efficiencies, unique solutions, cost savings and sustainable business outcomes. These features add real benefit and value to our client's procurement programs and business profitability.

We understand that consulting alone is not the solution for every business. That is why we offer managed services, and a number of standard offerings, as part of our Integrated Sourcing Solutions.

Epago will work with our clients to intelligently pioneer individually tailored strategic solutions, or our client may choose from our established Standard Offerings.

The Epago Approach :
Each time we engage with our clients, Epago will:
1. Understand the issues by gathering the required information
2. Identify alternatives and improvements by assessing the opportunity
3. Set out the solution by forming a strategy
4. Deliver the solution by implementing the strategy
5. Manage the outcome by providing ongoing management services

Using Epago's services can allow your organisation to rapidly put in place cost reduction programs and operational efficiencies, ensuring that you have continuity in expertise and management of each commodity on an "as needed" basis.

Our expertise, skills and deep industry & category knowledge allows us to set out best practice programs which delivered, not only to just achieve, but to ACCELERATE results.

Epago Group is a leading sourcing and procurement solutions company providing focused procurement consulting, managed services (business process outsourcing) and standard offerings that deliver a totally Integrated Sourcing Solution to client. For further information please contact us at +61 3 98427557 or email us [email protected].

Website: http://www.epagogroup.com.au

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