Cost control means having visibility of what you spend on all your non Goods For Sale. These are the everyday essentials across your business, and by having this increased visibility you can make data driven choices that can safeguard margins and free up budget. We help retailers achieve so much more from their budgets with less waste, less admin and less complexity.
We bring you practical solutions: better spend visibility, smarter procurement tools such as MyAcopia, and process health checks. This all makes it easier to spot where money is leaking and plug the gaps.
Typical issues include lots of small orders across sites and stores, each store buying their own consumables from various sources, numerous suppliers with varied pricing, poor and differing consistency of products, excess stock, fragmented procurement and poor visibility of spend.
Yes by reducing the number of suppliers you reduce admin, achieve better volume pricing, have fewer invoices and gain better negotiating leverage.
Review your consumables spend, map your suppliers and orders, spot where procurement is fragmented. This will help you identify quick wins, set your targets and build your roadmap. We can help you with that.
