Case Studies Archive

The Met Office: Procurement Act Readiness

The Met Office appointed 4C Associates as a trusted partner to support them with navigating some of these challenges and to ensure their readiness for February 2025.

UK Industrial Fusion Solutions: Commercial Support

4C are making a significant commercial contribution to a programme exploring the potential for fusion energy to deliver safe, sustainable, low carbon energy for generations to come.

Digital Transformation

One of the world’s leading medical products and technologies companies engaged 4C to drive end-to-end efficiencies across their procurement function through a multi-phase, multi-year transformation. The key objective was to transition transactional business process to their three global shared services centres, whilst automating processes and enhancing user-experience.

Integrated Business Planning Implementation

London Underground handles up to 5 million daily passenger journeys. With core operations to maintain and operate key assets like rolling stock fleet, rail tracks, signalling, stations and electrical and power infrastructure, they came to 4C for help with their end to end planning to address their budget challenges.

Range Optimisation ‘Less is More’ – UK Health and Wellness Retailer

We supported a UK health and wellness retailer with 700+ high street stores suffering from significant range proliferation driving up working capital, reducing rate of sale and produced a confusing assortment for customers to shop.

Supply Chain Resilience – UK Regulated Infrastructure Organisation

Collaborating with a leading UK regulated infrastructure organisation to significantly enhance their supply chain resilience. Our project addressed their challenges in contingency planning and managing disruptions across key suppliers.

Global OEM – Material Availability

Working with a global rolling stock OEM operating worldwide in rail transport markets, to support their UK manufacturing site production ramp-up.

Enterprise-wide Cost Optimisation Diagnostic

Working with an international bank on the end-to-end technology diagnostic across their entire purchasing landscape.

Commercial Package Negotiation

Supporting a leading biotech organisation during a negotiation with an established preferred provider for long term success.

Business Case Development

Supporting a Central Government Department's Wave 2 of two multi million pound grant schemes to support vulnerable and less well off families.

Transformational Change Programme

Helping our client transform their Central Services Division and the value it provides the wider organisation through successful delivery of integrated technology and business change.

Post-merger Restructuring

Working with a multinational foreign exchange company on post-merger restructuring and novation of supply contracts following the acquisition of a global business payments business.

Operating Model Development & Implementation

Supporting a global payments company in a transition to a new procurement operating model and capability.

Operating Model Transition & Regulatory Remediation

Working with a UK challenger bank to define a new operating model for procurement and complete urgent remediation to ensure regulatory compliance.

Cost Optimisation Strategy & Execution

Working with a global bank to deliver a bottom-line improvement of €50M across a €1.2B portfolio of spend