Operations Archives

Cut Smarter, Spend Better: How Zero-Based-Everything Redefines Procurement Efficiency

In today’s economic reality, traditional strategies like incremental savings or across-the-board reductions are just too slow, too blunt, and too superficial to cope with these pressures. Simply put: leaders can no longer rely on yesterday’s budgets or blanket reductions to solve today’s challenges. To thrive, businesses need a smarter, faster approach - one that delivers impact quickly and aligns every...

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.

Adapting to Evolution (and Revolution): Is Your Operating Model Fit for The Constantly Changing Global Environment?

We live in an era marked by rapid technological advancements, geopolitical shifts, unforeseen black swan events and the ever-evolving and dynamic nature of business and customer culture. As a result of this, organisations often find themselves having to navigate a fluid, complex and unpredictable global environment. The considerable challenge is to develop sustainable outcomes for the long-term when faced...

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.

The Blockchain Revolution: Cutting Through the Chain of Uncertainty

In a world where transparency is of utmost importance, trust is the most valuable currency, and middlemen are becoming obsolete. It may seem utopian, but it’s happening now, and all sector and industry leaders are quickly adopting it. Blockchain is here.

ChatGPT: Friend or Foe in the Pursuit of Sustainability?

We explore whether ChatGPT can help improve sustainability, examining the potential benefits and challenges of using AI to promote sustainable practices.

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.

Commercial Surge Partner

Providing Commercial support across a Central Government Department and its ALBs over a 4 year period.

Hospital Group Structure Development

Partnering to reform and refine the role of a financially failing District General Hospital (DGH).

Procurement Transformation

Leading a diagnostic assessment of the procurement and commercial approach for a UK University, with the objective of transforming Procurement’s contribution.

Efficiency & Value Improvement Programme

Supporting the national response to combating COVID-19 transmission by incorporating governance, stakeholder support, monitoring and reporting.

Procurement Function Establishment

Working with a Public Sector Regulator to establish a strategic in-house Procurement function.