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Passion for procurement and change management

At EFFSO we are passionate about procurement and supply chain. By helping companies develop their purchasing operations and achieve tangible results, we have become one of the leading procurement consulting firms in the Nordics.

Our consultants can manage everything from category projects to coordinating major procurement transformations, even for procurement functions with several hundred employees. With leading purchasing expertise, a pragmatic approach, and a willingness to share our expertise and knowledge, we facilitate development for both the procurement organization as well as its practitioners.

As an employer, we attract and nurture procurement talent and offer our employees great development opportunities and a friendly and familiar workplace.

Together we release the potential in purchasing to create value for society!

Our services solve your procurement challenges

We have deep and broad competence in purchasing. On the one hand, we offer services in competence supply in the form of recruitment, interim and training, and on the other hand we offer a range of management consulting services in purchasing. Everything from spend analysis, potential assessment, purchase diagnoses and procurement-as-a-service.

Our services also include sustainable procurement as well as procurement digitalization.

After the procurement analysis, we identified huge potential, and we managed to achieve double-digit percentage savings in some categories. It feels great to be able to exceed the customer's expectations!

Jonas Olofsson, Senior Management Consultant, EFFSO

What is a forward-leaning procurement function?

A forward-leaning purchasing manager drives continuous development enabling procurement to continuously contribute to the company’s competitiveness and profitability.

A mature, modern and efficient procurement function contributes to a greater extent to better results and profitability than its immature counterpart. Efficient procurement delivers tangible results, contributing to profitability, which in turn leads to higher returns for shareholders. A modern procurement organization demonstrates a high ROI – delivering higher value with less staff.

Common characteristics

Significative of a mature and high-performing purchasing function is capability, competence, processes and structural capital, a high degree of digitization as well as focus on total cost of ownership. More specifically this means:

Competence and HR-development: investment in high-performing individuals and developing these employees to handle new tasks and expectations. Procurement has access to the optimal skillset and resources at any given moment.
Processes and structural capital: Clearly defined processes with a high degree of automation and digital support for both the procurement function as well as business stakeholder. Procurement drives change through culture change, cross-functional collaboration and decision-making. Continuous identification of gaps and improvement implementation.
Digitization: High-performing procurement organizations are data driven in order to make fact based decisions. Digital tools free up time, eliminate repetitive manual tasks and minimize errors, allowing procurement to focus on value-creating activities by leverage technology to drive efficiencies.
Focus on total cost: A high-performing purchasing organization is focused on total cost of ownership, rather than line-item savings. The organization is focused on developing structural capital and competence and adopts a strategic approach to purchasing through category management.

Selected blog posts in English

The mindset and capabilities required to digitize procurement

21 February 2022

Part two of our interview with Jacob Gorm Larsen Like every year, EFFSO organizes a CPO Round Table which gathers around 20 Chief Procurement Officers from Swedish companies. Digitalization of procurement has been a part of the agenda during the last five years. During our last CPO Round Table we had the opportunity to listen...

Jacob Gorm Larsen, talking about digital procurement at EFFSO CPO Round Table 2021

How to get started with digital procurement

24 January 2022

Jacob G Larsen, the Digital Procurement Evangelist Every year EFFSO organizes a CPO Round Table with 20 Chief Procurement Officers from Swedish companies, and digitalization of procurement has been a part of the agendaat least for the last five years. During our last CPO Round Table in October 2021, we had the opportunity to listen...

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