Client Stories

Project: Routine Recurring Activity

Client: Multinational Footwear and Apparel Corporation
 

Challenge: Overwhelming volume of procurement transactions with no structure causing delays, high costs, and siloed business functions resulting in frustrated internal clients.

Solution: Streamlined workflow, right-sized review protocols, provided cost effective resourcing, technology drivers, SLAs and fixed fee pricing.

Results: Drove down hourly blended rate by more than 40% while increasing turn times by over 200%.
 

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Project: Mission Critical Initiative

Client: Fortune 500 Data Marketplace
 

Challenge: Design a new Pharma Benefits Platform integrating client's retail network and partner's technology platform in a never been done business model.

Solution: Designed a partnership structure implementing agreements responding to client's strategic objectives and fiscal year-end timeline.

Results: Closed transaction on an accelerated timeframe exceeding all expectations, 50% below the proposed budget, allowing the client to launch a new business model before fiscal year-end, meeting private equity owner milestone.

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Project: Mission Critical Initiative

Client: Fortune 200 Supply Chain Company
 

Challenge: Build a digital marketplace with a family of vendors coordinating $15 billion in acquisitions over a four-year period in an accelerated timeframe.

Solution: Assembled a nimble team to implement transaction portfolio.

Results: Delivered transaction set in four weeks at a fee less than 25% of the fee initially proposed by incumbent counsel.

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Project: Strategic Transaction – North America Warehouse Retrofit Program

Client: Fortune 50 Athletic Lifestyle Company
 

Challenge: Implement warehouse retrofit program (software, hardware, network, services) for North American distribution with board-level visibility.

Solution: Assembled a nimble team that was responsive, knew the industry, strategic initiative, and path to success.

Results: Delivered a global framework agreement with RFP process accelerating client's path to closure with vendor group.

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Project: Mission Critical Initiative

Client: Fortune 500 Health Insurance Provider
 

Challenge: Design and develop a platform to support thousands of legacy transactions and high volume of new transactions.

Solution: Designed and developed taxonomy and transaction workflows into a platform, digitized thousands of legacy transactions, and implemented platform to support transaction management.

Results: Client moved on an accelerated pace to centralize procurement strategy, allowing for easy access to legacy transactions and management of ongoing transaction workflow with significant cost savings throughout the organization.
 

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Project: Reduce Spend and Time to Close

Client: Fortune 50 Athletic Lifestyle Company
 

Challenge: Create a delivery model to move large portfolios of recurring transactions off the desks of internal lawyers, significantly reducing cost, and time to close, while maintaining quality.

Solution: Increased process efficiencies by implementing a taxonomy-driven delivery model that matched legal matters with appropriately experienced attorneys. Put in place SLAs and metrics to ensure quality, pricing and turn times were met.

Results: Reduced spend by 40-50%, matters assigned within one day dramatically reducing turn times by more than half and have so far met or exceeded all SLAs and performance metrics.

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