Challenge Faced with increasing budgetary pressures, the largest school district in California was challenged to find opportunities for cost reductions within its Maintenance, Repair and Operations (MRO) division. A Prokür...
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The Prokür Group
We help our clients develop long-term, sustainable, solutions to difficult operational issues while driving superior return on consulting dollars. We do this by bringing executive level talent with years of experience to lead cross-functional teams and apply our unique problem solving approaches to address root-causes.
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Operations & Procurement Excellence
Helping clients realize operational and procurement synergies across portfolio companies, using structured approaches to quickly identify opportunities and build realistic roadmap to savings.
- Program Management
- Procurement Synergy Realization
- Supply Chain Integration
Strategic Sourcing
Supporting client organizations to realize sustainable total cost reductions through a disciplined approach to purchasing goods and services.
- Spend Analytics
- Sourcing and Category Management Execution
- Vendor Management and Savings Realization
- SME and Resource Staffing Support
Portfolio Optimization
Helping clients realize operational and procurement synergies across portfolio companies, using structured approaches to quickly identify opportunities and build realistic roadmap to savings.
- Program Management
- Procurement Synergy Realization
- Supply Chain Integration
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Value Accelerator Workshop
A workshop designed for senior executives to quickly identify strategic cost reduction and growth opportunities for both the immediate and long terms. Uses structured techniques to stretch thinking about existing models, allowing participants to challenge long held paradigms and generate innovative ideas for transformational change. Outputs are a roadmap that executives can reliably agree will deliver identified results and renewed enthusiasm and excitement for future growth opportunities.
Case Studies
A workshop designed for senior executives to quickly identify strategic cost reduction and growth opportunities for both the immediate and long terms. Uses structured techniques to stretch thinking about existing models, allowing participants to challenge long held paradigms and generate innovative ideas for transformational change. Outputs are a roadmap that executives can reliably agree will deliver identified results and renewed enthusiasm and excitement for future growth opportunities.
Latest Article
- And so the Journey Begins…In my last blog, I began to introduce the concept of a Journey as an analogy to what a Procurement or Supply Chain Transformation might look like. And in it I posit that the first step in the journey is to recognize that you need to take one in the first place. Unfortunately for most executives, that realization comes… Read more: And so the Journey Begins…
- It’s midnight, do you know where your spend is?Over the years I’ve come to develop a sense of where an organization is in its procurement and supply chain journey. Usually my clients are experiencing some sort of pain or frustration, before they call me in. Perhaps having recently missed earnings or underachieved their operational goals. Perhaps a company has been focused so much… Read more: It’s midnight, do you know where your spend is?
- Back to BasicsAs 2017 is coming to a close I find myself thinking about the supply chain challenges that several of my clients were facing this year. And from this reflection whether there was anything I learned that would be useful for other managers in their own businesses. One thing that came to mind was in regards… Read more: Back to Basics
About The Prokür Group
The Prokür Group was established in 2011 to help clients manage difficult issues with a unique approach to solving complex problems. We bring together the best consultants from top tier consulting firms, all of whom have anywhere from 5-25 years of relevant experience (or more!). Our extensive roster of consultants have both functional and/or industry expertise to best position your company for success.
The firm prides itself on five guiding principles:
- Focus on the Clients Core Issues impacting your business
- Deliver a superior Return on Consulting Dollar
- Build Cross-functional Teams that drives greater benefits than the sum of it’s parts
- Design Sustainable and Repeatable benefits into the solutions that continue after the consultants have gone
- Make Data-Based Decisions
Contributing Author
Carlos Soares of The Prokür Group is a contributing author to 2016’s Elite Business Systems: Insider Strategies of Industry Leading Consultants. Rated 5-Stars on Amazon, Elite Business Systems teaches you how to implement key strategies, expand your business, and become more profitable from expertise shared by top business consultants.
