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November 8, 2024

Getting Smart About Sourcing: How One Educational and Resource Institution Rebuilt Its Procurement Organisation

Discover the transformative journey of an educational institution's procurement overhaul, where strategic sourcing was key. Optimising processes and leveraging spend, they identified $72M in savings potential.
The client wanted to improve inventory management practices at a facility in its commercial HVAC division, which was seeing significant production disruptions and inventory losses. Inventory was handled by several third-party logistics companies, leading to missing material and inventory inaccuracies.
Protiviti partnered with clients to implement best-of-breed digital solutions to automate financial close processes, along with process improvements and data governance and controls solutions to resolve the issues. Change management to support accounting teams in adopting the new processes was also a key deliverable. 
This U.S.-based client is a multi-national consumer products company that has been in business for more than 150 years and now has more than 40,000 employees in 80 countries around the globe. 
Global Manufacturer optimises supply chain analytics with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning significantly improving its ability to adapt to rapid changes in both processes and cost analyses.
Protiviti partnered with leading technology company to assess, redesign, and standardise procurement, accounting, and finance functions. The company’s overall goal was to eliminate manual and disparate back-office processes to create capacity for strategic and growth objectives.
This project focused on the company’s efforts to modernise its IT organisation and achieve greater alignment with its business partners as their business model evolved. The project included three key phases of support, starting with an initial IT strategy and target operating model definition, transitioning to enabling value stream-focused Lean portfolio management and then a deeper dive analysis into the…
The client was undergoing a strategic finance transformation initiative to globally align technology, policy, and procedures. As part of this initiative, the company had several strategic goals.
A U.S.-based global skincare company was unable to provide timely financial reporting and performance analytics to its key stakeholders and private equity sponsor. Protiviti partnered with the company’s CFO, VP of Finance, Controller, and key stakeholders to assess and redesign the book close, reporting, and forecasting processes.
A $1 billion educational services holding company that operates in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand needed to transform its finance operations. The organisation, which operates numerous higher-education institutions and provides a workplace educational benefits administration solution, enrolled more than 100,000 students in its universities and served 50,000 workplace learners in 2021, growing its revenue by more…
A globally-recognized CRM provider engaged Protiviti to assist them in determining methods to better protect customer data while complying with each customer's unique regulatory requirements. The client needed an efficient method to perform configuration checks on AWS resources to ensure it would remain compliant with the HIPAA framework so that it could grow its footprint in the healthcare industry.
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