• 4C Consulting
• 4C Outsourced Procurement Services
• 4CX – A procurement and logistics partnership
  • Global sourcing
  • Corporate and social responsibility
  • Design and innovation
  • Logistics management
  • Value added services
• Pro4C

Global sourcing

4CX is a leading provider of global sourcing services. We deliver considerable benefits for our clients including lower costs, faster times-to-market and access to a substantial international pool of skilled resources.

4CX operate a fully managed and approved global supply base covering a wide range of categories, including:

• Plastics
• Metals
• textiles
• Glassware
• Electrical and electronic goods
• Gifts
• Paper and packaging
• Consumables
• Retail goods
• MRO

We have access to over 10,000 vendors, ranging from high capacity direct sources to regional suppliers for domestic production. Whilst China offers significant benefits, our strategic sourcing efforts in each category area have realised substantial opportunities in other near-shore sourcing destinations such as South America and Eastern Europe.

We have category experts and quality assurance teams based in Europe as well as in key sourcing locations such as China, Bangladesh, Poland and Turkey. Vendor management also forms one of the central pillars of the sourcing process and is key to ensuring that product is procured and delivery in a timely manner at the correct cost.

We have specialist capabilities to ensure all aspects of product safety and quality are fully managed. In addition, we take corporate responsibility extremely seriously to ensure there are no ethical or environmental issues for our clients.

Our best practice sourcing technology and web based tools fortify our ability to manage the complexities global sourcing process to enable high quality, on-time, and on-budget delivery. Our sourcing framework includes:

• Strategic sourcing approach – in partnership with our clients
• Best practice sourcing technology:
• Online RFI and RFP from within Pro4C
• E-auctions
• Comprehensive real time data
• Active category management and supplier management
• Continuous improvement programme

In addition our combined purchasing power makes us one of the biggest buyers in many categories. Our clients receive the benefits of our buying scale through lower prices and innovations.