A London-headquartered procurement and supply chain consultancy, founded in 2000, that helps organisations cut costs and buy more effectively.
Efficio is a procurement and supply chain consultancy headquartered in London. It describes itself as the world's largest independent international procurement and supply chain consultancy. Its consultants help organisations reduce costs, improve internal processes and upskill their own procurement teams, with a focus on making savings that last. Its services include cost optimisation, supply chain risk and resilience, procurement transformation, supplier relationship management, sustainability and support during mergers and acquisitions.
The company was founded in 2000, according to the Built In London listing and the Art of Procurement directory, though neither names the founders. Its stated aim is to make procurement functions twice as effective so they can generate more value for their businesses. A published profile says the company builds its approach around practitioners who have worked in procurement themselves. It has built a technology platform called eFlow, which it says automates data insight, helps deliver savings, supports work with suppliers and manages supply chain risk. We found no separate mission statement in the pages we could read.
Efficio's UK base is in central London, at Kinnaird House in Pall Mall East, according to its listing on Built In London. The listing says the firm has 14 offices across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, and North America; older articles speak of ten. The firm says it has over 1,200 people from more than 50 nationalities. Its clients are described as blue-chip multinationals, private equity firms and their portfolio companies, and smaller companies. It works in sectors including construction, energy, financial services, technology, logistics, manufacturing, media, pharma and healthcare, the public sector and retail.
On culture, the company calls its team diverse and growing and says it combines expertise, data, technology and human intelligence to deliver value. The pages we read give little more about how the company sees itself, and its leadership is not named there, so we cannot say more without guessing. Efficio people appear as guests on procurement podcasts, which suggests a firm that likes to share what it knows.
Roles at a firm like Efficio include consultants and analysts who dig into spending data, category specialists who understand a particular area such as logistics or energy, technology and data teams who build and run eFlow, and marketing, finance and people staff in the offices. Logistics is one of the sectors it advises, which makes it relevant to anyone interested in how supply chains work and are paid for. If you enjoy detective work with numbers, procurement consulting offers plenty of it.
Website: www.efficioconsulting.com
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