COMPRARA GROUP PTY LTD

In Their Own Words: COMPRARA GROUP PTY LTD

Comprara is a procurement and spend management consultancy headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. Founded by Ben Shute, FCIPS, in 2010. The organization operates across the globe today, providing consulting and capability uplift solutions for procurement that are enhanced by the deep analytics capabilities of our sister company – PI Data Analytics.

Tactical Support and Cost Out

Comprara helps clients go to market from initial business case, planning, and cost modelling – through to negotiation support and contract setup. Our market agnostic approach means we have worked in a wide variety of industries and sectors – bringing to your project our recent and relevant experience as well as innovation and cross-pollination of ideas from similar precedents.

Our body of knowledge spanning planning and process templates, combined with analytics capabilities means we can move quickly and use your data to enhance the robustness of commercial decision-making. For our clients, this Procurement-as-a-Service approach means they need only be consulted and informed, operating key decision gates, while our blended team of experts provides the commercial resource required to deliver the project.

Strategy and Transformation

Comprara is dedicated to the function and profession of Procurement. Our partnership with clients extends past the project, to their maturity journey as a commercial organization. By interfacing with the data, documentation, and stakeholders we can benchmark the current operating model, define an ideal future state, and use the gap analysis to give CPOs a plan for the next 12 months to 5 years. Based on our review, and your business challenges this “Roadmap for Change” may include:

• Target operating model
• Procurement framework (policy and procedure)
• Data and systems interventions
• S2C / P2P Technology
• Supplier partnering and development
• Procurement guidance
• Capability uplift
• Savings opportunities

The savings opportunities are key for Procurement to be able to communicate a business case for change, and our team can help build that case to elevate Procurement to a strategic function of the business. We do this by identifying quick wins at the front-end of the transformation as well as strategic savings projects that require partnering with the business and suppliers to yield benefits over time.

Capability Uplift

Knowledge transfer and capability development is core to Comprara’s value proposition. We want to help clients build internal capability so our consulting support is focused on strategic efforts where we can add value as an external expert. Over the years, Comprara has established a vast body of knowledge in procurement best-practices that is given life through an ecosystem of blended training solutions:

• Capability frameworks to standardise job skills
• Skills assessments, gap analysis, and training roadmaps
• Self-paced eLearning (off-the-shelf, white label, tailored)
• Instructor-led training (virtual or face-to-face)
• Academies (our managed programs blending all of the above)

We have deployed one, some, or all of these solutions in dedicated programs serving global teams of thousands of learners. At the same time, these modular solutions are key to the review and transformation exercise, giving clients that are ready to take the next step in their maturity journey the right tools and training to empower staff.

Summary

Altogether, our solutions in consulting and capability uplift make Comprara the ideal partner for any Procurement organisation looking to improve commercial performance. Summarily, we provide:

• Strategic sourcing support
• Savings opportunity analysis
• Savings project charters
• Category strategy development
• Tail spend management strategy
• Cost-out programs
• eAuctions
• Procurement Maturity Assessment and transformation support
• Procurement process and technology review
• Policy and process frameworks development
• Capability development planning
• Blended training

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