Four ways to progress procurement
and supply chain work.
Trusure's focus is manufacturers, from established operations to businesses working with contract manufacturers and those building their supply base for growth.
Every engagement starts with understanding your business and what it needs.
We define the work, agree the fee, and get to work.
Clarity & Direction
Better visibility and control over contracts, spend, and priorities.
The Challenges:
✕ Contracts are renewing without visibility and risks hidden in the detail of clauses go unnoticed.
✕ Spend is unclear.
✕ Decisions are being forced late because the picture isn't clear enough to make them confidently.
What Changes:
✓ You know exactly where you stand: which contracts are exposed, what renewals need attention first, and where spend is going, including spend that is not under contract.
✓ Contracts that are not delivering good value are identified through benchmarking and review, and renegotiation is prioritised.
✓ Priority decisions have owners, dates, and evidence behind them.
✓ Renewals and negotiations are progressed to a decision.
✓ Your team has a live tracker and handover they can keep running.
Example work:
➔ Contract register and risk tracker.
➔ Key terms summaries for priority contracts.
➔ Contract review and benchmarking.
➔ Spend visibility and prioritised action plan.
➔ Priority renewal negotiations progressed to decision.
Sourcing & Negotiation
Defined sourcing decisions progressed to completion, with a controlled process and usable handover.
The Challenges:
✕ You know you need to change supplier, source something new, or renegotiate, but the project is stuck.
✕ Requirements are unclear, stakeholders are stretched, or nobody has capacity to run it properly.
What Changes:
✓ A sourcing decision is made with evidence, not deferred.
✓ Make-or-buy decisions are properly assessed, with the option of in-house production weighed against subcontract or contract manufacturing on cost, capability, and risk.
✓ Negotiations are prepared properly, run firmly and fairly, and concluded with a workable agreement.
✓ Implementation has clear owners, actions, and timelines.
✓ The handover is clean and your team can pick it up and run with it.
Example work:
➔ Requirements definition and sourcing approach.
➔ Supplier identification, evaluation and recommendation.
➔ Negotiation through to agreed terms.
➔ Implementation and handover pack.
New product and supplier launch support
Where sourcing is linked to new product development, tooling, or contract manufacturing, Trusure can run the procurement side, from request for quotation and supplier capability assessment through to negotiation, contracting, and launch readiness.
This can include detailed BOM analysis, should-cost modelling, and working with engineering and suppliers to challenge specifications and improve designs for manufacturability, cost, and value. It also includes coordinating across engineering, manufacturing, quality, and operations to align requirements and land decisions.
Example work
➔ Manufacturer capability and readiness assessment.
➔ Supplier audit and corrective actions.
➔ Prototype to production planning.
➔ Cost-down and value improvement programmes.
Supplier Performance & Resilience
Practical actions to reduce risk, recover performance, and protect continuity.
The Challenges:
✕ A supplier is underperforming and nobody has time to manage the recovery properly.
✕ Contract obligations are not being tracked or enforced. Or there is a dependency you know is a risk but nobody has acted on.
✕ Disruption is a real possibility and the mitigation plan does not exist yet.
What Changes:
✓ The root cause is identified and the supplier knows what needs to change, with a structured recovery plan and clear escalation.
✓ You have a documented view of risk and dependency across your critical suppliers, not just a feeling.
✓ Due diligence and monitoring are proportionate and turned into decisions.
✓ Continuity exposure is reduced through practical alternatives and stabilisation actions.
✓ Your key suppliers are assessed for their ability to support your growth plans, with gaps identified and actions in place.
Example work:
➔ Supplier performance diagnosis and recovery plan.
➔ Contract performance management.
➔ Risk and dependency mapping with mitigation actions.
➔ Proportionate due diligence and monitoring.
➔ Continuity planning and disruption stabilisation.
Foundations & Enablement
Procurement foundations, systems readiness & implementation, and capability to scale.
The Challenges:
✕ The business has grown but procurement and supply chain capability has not kept pace.
✕ Processes are informal, ownership is unclear, and the risk of things falling through the cracks is increasing.
✕ Or you are looking at systems, automation, or AI adoption and need the foundations in place first.
What Changes:
✓ Roles, decision points, and ways of working are defined and flexible enough to support the business without slowing it down.
✓ The practical tools your team needs to run procurement day to day are in place and in use.
✓ You are genuinely ready for system or technology change, with aligned processes, usable data, and practical adoption support.
✓ Strategy and priorities are clear enough to act on.
✓ Your team can pick up and run what was built, so momentum continues after the engagement ends.
Example work:
➔ Practical operating model.
➔ Usable templates, trackers, and adoption support.
➔ Procurement strategy and priorities.
➔ Technology readiness and implementation support alongside chosen supplier.
