RetailProcurementServices

The retail procurement experts at Dryden Group have many years of experience working with all types of retail operations. Regardless of your company specialty or your budget's size, we can find savings in your indirect spending, helping your expenditures better align with your business goals.

Some of the specific services we offer include:

• Indirect procurement audits: Our procurement audits analyze your spending and purchasing patterns and recommend enhancements to improve efficiency and maximize profitability.
• Procurement consulting: Dryden Group's procurement consulting services evaluate all elements of your indirect spending to identify potential improvement areas.
• Spend assessments: Our spend assessments break down the critical aspects of your indirect expenditures, including whom you buy from, what you buy, your purchasing frequency and how you use these items in your business.
• Supplier relationship management: Our supplier relationship management services segment your indirect supplier base and use reliable performance metrics to help evaluate each vendor and determine potential areas of improvement for cost savings, efficiency and communication.
• Benchmarking: Dryden Group's benchmarking services utilize insights from our vast database to compare your expenditures against preestablished industry standards.
• Contract negotiations: Our experts engage with your suppliers to help establish the primary elements of your contract negotiation requirements, including pricing, payment terms and delivery times.
• Program optimization: Our program optimization strategies can fine-tune your retail procurement process without making significant changes, from eliminating redundancies and streamlining workflows to improving communication and forecasting changes.
• RFP management: Dryden Group's request for proposal (RFP) services help you determine all the critical components for an effective vendor proposal, including company information, spending budget, delivery schedules, payment terms and more.
• Mergers and acquisition support: Our mergers and acquisitions support services help align a new purchasing plan for all parties involved, maximizing your purchasing power and creating a unified supply chain.