Focussing on delivering measureable gains, quantifiable savings and dependability of supply in some of the world’s most difficult markets

Managing a professional procurement department can often be a thankless task. Sourcing and negotiating with potential suppliers at the same time as integrating multiple relationships into an operational and effective supply chain is difficult enough, but is made doubly hard by the need to ensure your staff are on-message and don’t pursue unauthorised purchase routes.

Smith & Conquest offers professional procurement services in the most difficult markets, the most opaque locations and for the most intractable procurement challenges.

Our strategy is simple – to provide exemplary procurement services to international clients in difficult locations, achieving measurable savings in terms of cost and leadtime, maintaining the highest quality while building and safeguarding critical operational procurement routes and strategies.

A simple strategy – but how is it achieved?

With over 20 years of experience in Western Europe and 15 years of experience in the developing markets of Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caspian region, the Middle East and India, Smith & Conquest has proven expertise in developing durable supply chains and profitable procurement links.

Negotiating both large and small supply contracts we have, over these periods, saved tens of millions of US dollars for our clients and improved both dependability and transparency of procurement in notoriously opaque market environments.

As leading advocates of zero-base pricing, we look not only at the costs of supply and the procurement process itself, but also of lifetime ownership cost cycles and the quantified value-add that comes from strong supplier relationships. Our analyses of both individual bids and corporate supply routes therefore focus on the real costs and benefits of the relationship and how these are shaped by the challenging and sometimes unpredictable market environment in some developing countries.

For a procurement specialist that looks beyond the jargon, while understanding your real business drivers and objectives, Smith & Conquest focuses on measureable gains, quantifiable savings and dependability of supply. From its inception the company has offered shared risk/reward pricing, based on agreed performance metrics, to some of the largest companies, with the most demanding procurement departments, in the world.