ADAS Case Study
- 1. Expense Reduction Analysts Success Stories £412,700 of savings for ADAS ADAS first engaged the services of In total, the team of 12 representatives Expense Reduction Analyst Tony Catling from Expense Reduction Analysts has in 2000, as it was keen to streamline its reviewed over £2.1 million of costs across purchasing function but did not have 21 different categories and achieved in sufficient purchasing staff to do so. Tony excess of £400,000 of savings. and his colleagues were willing to offer a fully outsourced Profit Improvement Table of Savings Programme, to ensure ADAS received best value from its suppliers, all on the Category Saving(%) Saving(£) basis of no-saving, no-fee. Merchant card fees 40% £1,600 Tony Catling explains, “Working with ADAS General stationery 27% £45,500 £412,700 has been enjoyable but challenging. A lot of my initial work involved visiting many of its offices in order to understand the various Couriers Industrial gases 22% 16% £12,900 £5,300 aspects of the business and to ascertain Sample milk pots 26% £30,500 Darrin Hawkins, Brian Pinner, Harry Duff, the needs of the staff.” The magnitude and Mark Talbot (ADAS), Ashley Carr, variety of the project work has led Tony to Postage 2% £4,000 Tony Catling and Jonathan Hotopf invite colleagues, each with expertise in Chemicals 27% £56,300 particular areas, to work with him for ADAS. He explains, “I do not pretend to be an Workwear 33% £6,700 expert in every category of expenditure so Document printing 37% £28,600 I asked a number of my colleagues to assist Mobile communications 24% £35,300 me in certain areas. “Expense Reduction Analyst Brian Pinner has investigated ADAS’ Fixed telephone assets 12% £25,900 spend upon print and courier services, Harry Printing 15% £5,000 Duff has focused his attentions on stationery Computer hardware 6% £5,500 expenditure and Darrin Hawkins has concentrated on vehicle hire. Tony also Landline communications 13% £14,200 called upon the knowledge of Ashley Carr Vehicle hire 12% £12,300 and Jonathan Hotopf of to conduct several separate analyses of ADAS’ communications Total Savings £289,600 expenditure. Categories revisited Saving(%) Saving (£) Fixed telephone assets 5% £6,700 Stationery 51% £63,600 “Expense Reduction Analysts has Printed stationery 8% £1,000 helped ADAS to achieve significant Mobile communications Landline call charges 20% 12% £23,100 £23,700 profit across a range of expenditures Landline line rentals Total Savings 4% £5,000 £123,100 and over a period of several years. Meanwhile Brian Pinner is conducting a It is now our intent to continue to re-analysis of courier costs. ADAS Profile work closely with them over the Established for nearly 60 years, and with over 650 staff covering more than 60 specialisms, coming years to further fine tune ADAS provides independent scientific research, consultancy (both Agricultural and Environmental) and contracting services to our purchasing function.” more than 20,000 clients. The company operates from a network of offices and research sites in England, Scotland and Wales. find extra profit www.erauk.net