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Business challenge

Our client needed to deliver procurement savings within their Australian operation by generating assets across both coal mining and generating operations.

Context

An Asia Pacific energy provider.

They were under pressure with low wholesale electricity prices, soft electricity demand and surplus generation in the market, and rising operating costs.

Business impact

$0m

annualised savings from a total spend of $577m in 22 weeks

$0m

in additional opportunities identified to be evaluated for implementation

Solution
  • Agree and prioritise potential opportunities/savings levers with the procurement team
  • Manage reverse auctions across several key spend categories, yielding an incremental 10% to 30% savings over and above traditional sourcing
  • Realign organisation structure with clearly defined key performance indicators (KPIs) cascading from upper management to operational roles and contractors
  • Optimise current procurement processes, practices, tools and templates
  • Greatly improve communication across engineering, procurement and vendors
  • Roll out the cutting edge WiredUp toolset to lock in long‑term savings tracking and ensure ongoing demand management and spend compliance is maintained
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