Alun Jones
Engineering Optimised
Supply Chains
What We Do
Alun Jones
A Chartered Engineer with over 25 years of commercial experience in Strategic Sourcing, diwyd offers a range of procurement services to SMEs and start-up organisations on a portfolio or consultancy basis.
Working with businesses ranging from family owned manufacturers up to a FTSE 250 listed UK plc, diwyd can help organisations of any scale increase profits and grow.
Services
- Spend analysis
- Cost reduction or optimisation
- M&A preparation and rapid impact programmes
- Strategic contract negotiation with incumbent or evaluated and qualified suppliers, total cost management, identification of production process monitoring and quality assurance
- Supplier rationalization
- Risk management
- Logistics optimisation
- Make vs Buy analysis
- Supplier relationship management
- Category management
- Sustainability - Managing your environmental, social and governance (ESG) objectives through your supply chain
- Team development/recruitment
- Procurement organisation restructuring
- NPI sourcing for product/process innovation
- Supplier development (Service/Quality)
- Policy creation - sustainability and diversity
- Process creation - vendor assessment
Why Procurement Matters
An organisation's costs include up to 90% purchased goods and services. Improving procurement directly improves EBIT and drives growth. Working with companies of all sizes, across all industries. We believe in bringing procurement excellence into any organisation.
The engineering principles applied at diwyd promote a technically based understanding of required specification AND the supply-side pressures. This facilitates a hands-on collaborative approach to problem solving.