Sourcing & Procurement

Our approach

At BearingPoint, we redefine procurement to maximize its strategic value and impact. In today's rapidly evolving landscape, a resilient procurement model is crucial for addressing challenges posed by megatrends like the circular economy, sustainability, global economic shifts, and supply chain disruptions.

For Supply Chain Executives and Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs), now is the perfect time to transform operating models. By leveraging AI, big data analytics, automation, advanced spend intelligence, and building a sustainable supplier ecosystem, we empower our clients to drive innovation, enhance efficiency, and build resilience, ensuring their organizations thrive in a constantly changing world.

Our offerings

Digital transformation

BearingPoint navigates the complexities of today’s business environment, driving organizations toward a sustainable future. We conduct comprehensive process maturity and digital health checks to guide companies through their digital transformation journey with confidence.
Source-to-Pay

Leveraging our strong alliances with SAP Ariba, Coupa, Jaggaer, and Ivalua, BearingPoint advises on the latest technology trends, IT architecture, and design. We offer full implementation and global rollout capabilities, helping clients establish efficient Procure-to-Pay processes and adopt a data-driven approach to Source-to-Contract activities.
AI-Driven Strategies

Our in-house specialists utilize structured methodologies and advanced analytics to uncover opportunities for value creation. We provide strategic guidance and delivery support to enhance spend management, improve sourcing strategies, and drive successful execution.
Procurement Maturity Assessment

BearingPoint’s industry-leading methodology enables organizations to focus on key areas for enhancing procurement functions. We provide a comprehensive understanding of your procurement capabilities and help you develop a roadmap to achieve your strategic objectives.
Target Operating Model

Our Target Operating Model expertise includes fostering new ways of working, change management, and establishing agile teams and organizations. We evaluate procurement functions across three critical pillars—Organization & Governance, Execution, and Data & Technology—to align with business objectives.
Spend Analytics

We deliver actionable insights through our dedicated procurement analytic solution ‘Spend Navigator’. By cleansing, harmonizing, and visualizing client data, we help highlight trends, identify cost optimization opportunities, ensure greater compliance, and effectively manage supplier relationships. We also incorporate external market intelligence to track savings and provide key performance indicators for performance management.
Cost Reduction Programme

BearingPoint’s cost reduction program drives sustainable organizational change, leading to significant savings and the achievement of procurement cost reduction targets. Our approach includes comprehensive spend analysis, diagnostic reviews of spend categories with stakeholders, and a robust savings delivery phase.
Supplier Risk and Supply Chain Resilience

BearingPoint fosters seamless collaboration with suppliers by advising on demand forecasts, sourcing, contracting, and proactive risk management. Our solutions emphasize the importance of comprehensive contingency planning to ensure a resilient and dependable supply network.
Sustainability

We help clients integrate sustainable practices into their procurement processes, ensuring they meet their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals while maintaining competitiveness and resilience in a rapidly changing market.

Our in-house tools

Digital Maturity Assessment (DMA)
You can find a quick assessment here to benchmark your digital maturity with your peers or get in contact now to discuss how we could help you.

Spend Navigator
Our proprietary tool, Spend Navigator, offers a single source of truth for all your procurement and spend analytics across multiple ERP systems. To discover how this powerful tool can enhance your procurement insights, click here or contact us directly.

Our wider sustainable procurement offerings

BearingPoint provides the expertise and support needed to seamlessly integrate environmental and social considerations into your organization, enhancing the positive impact of your strategic plans and transformation initiatives.

BearingPoint specializes in designing and implementing procurement technology platforms that control costs, mitigate risks, and track and measure ESG performance, ensuring a comprehensive approach to procurement excellence.

BearingPoint can elevate your company's carbon accounting and reporting process. By establishing a robust carbon reporting framework, we help you gain a clear and comprehensive understanding of your emissions, empowering you to make informed, data-driven decisions.

Our partners

At BearingPoint, we partner with leading cloud platforms such as SAP, Coupa, Jaggaer, and Ivalua to support our clients in achieving their objectives across the Source-to-Pay (S2P) process. Our proven methodology unlocks the potential to deliver these results, enabling efficient sharing of demand forecasts, sourcing, contracting, purchase order automation, invoicing, and proactive risk management.

With our extensive alliance network, we provide expert guidance on technology trends, IT architecture, and design, coupled with comprehensive implementation and global rollout capabilities.