While some energy and utility companies use legacy software and spreadsheets to track their expenditures, the most successful businesses employ a total procurement solution that evaluates each area of their indirect spending. Dryden Group offers a comprehensive suite of services tailored to each client's unique requirements, including:

• Procurement audits: Our procurement auditingprocess gathers critical data from your indirect expenditures, analyzes the results and performs ongoing monitoring to help increase your bottom line.
• Procurement consulting: Our procurement consultation experts can address one or more areas of your indirect expenditures, helping you develop a custom strategy to increase cost savings, enhance vendor communication and improve process efficiency.
• Benchmarking: Dryden Group's benchmarking services utilize an extensive database to compare your indirect spending costs against other top companies in the energy and utilities sector.
• RFP management: Our request for proposal (RFP) management team optimizes your entire RFP process, from determining the most qualified vendors to selecting the best bid package that meets your requirements.
• Spend assessments: Our spend assessments evaluate all aspects of your indirect spending to determine the best purchasing strategies that align with your business goals.
• Supplier relationship management: Dryden Group's supplier relationship management services help improve vendor partnerships, from streamlining communication to identifying more favorable payment terms.
• Program optimization: Our program optimization strategies let you fine-tune your purchasing processes without overhauling them entirely, including streamlining workflows, forecasting market changes and improving communication with suppliers.
• Mergers and acquisition support: Our merger and acquisition services enable all parties to maximize their purchasing power by grouping their procurement needs together.
• Contract negotiations: Dryden Group's contract negotiation services help establish your desired pricing points, payment terms, delivery schedules and communication preferences with new or existing vendors.