Category Savings Examples

During initial savings planning or as we identify continuous cost improvements, ICG Commerce will work with you to develop realistic savings goals based on your specific category sourcing history, requirements and industry situation. Below we provide examples of our category savings experience across a wide-variety of customers, subcategories and cost reduction solutions.

Administrative
Chemicals
Facilities Management
HR Services
IT
Logistics
Marketing
Metals
MRO
Packaging
Telecom
Travel

Administrative

Saved more than $4MM on $13MM in Office Supplies, Toner and Data Center Supplies for a large financial services company

Sourcing and automating purchasing of business forms saved a large and growing automotive distributor over 27%

Consolidating disjointed promotional items programs for a large industrial equipment manufacturer streamlined the supply base and resulted in $13% savings

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Chemicals

$2.8 MM saved on specialty chemicals for Cosmetic Company

12% saved on marine lubricants for large Food Producer

23% saved on propane for leading Bottle and Can Producer

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Facilities Management

Achieved 21% sourcing savings on $10 million in building maintenance including janitorial services, HVAC services and roof repair services for a major global tire manufacturer

Delivered 14% sourcing savings on a $4 million in security services and janitorial services for an aerospace sub-assembly manufacturer resulting in standardized statements of work and standardized cost structures

Achieved an 8% savings on $3 million in security services spend for a major clothing manufacturer and retailer covering 11 US-based facilities

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HR Services

Automated temporary labor transaction processing and achieved 17% sourcing savings on $16 million in global spend for an oil and gas equipment manufacturer

Delivered 32% sourcing savings on a $45 million recruiting services spend category for a major consulting firm

Delivered 35% savings to a major specialty retailer on their $3 million spend in life insurance and AD&D displacing an 10 year incumbent

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IT

Saved a leading global beverage company 17% on its roll out of enterprise servers and storage to support its Global SAP implementation in a sole source environment

Sourced global software licenses [10,000 seats] for Symantec products yielding 50% reduction from initial supplier quote through the use of eSourcing tools

Sourced and negotiated a Distributed Systems Services [Help Desk & Break-fix] contract impacting >9000 end users in 17-countries yielding a 3-year cost reduction of $5.8MM

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Logistics

Saved $4B food and beverage company over 9% on $90MM containerized ocean freight through global sourcing event with use of eSourcing optimization tool

Leveraged best-in-class network optimization software SAILS to identify $1MM in cost reduction opportunities for a global pharmaceutical producer

$2.5 Savings on freight forwarding for Global Beverage Company

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Marketing

Currently managing $85 million in marketing services spend for a $4.5 billion telecom equipment and services customer. Sourcing of $10 million in annual recurring marketing services spend resulted in an annual 14% savings

Achieved 22% savings for $20MM in combined print and fulfillment spend for a $4B wireless telecommunications company

Delivered 13% savings for $30 million in advertising agency spend for a $14 billion consulting firm using hourly rate reductions, the elimination of mark-ups on printed collateral and other third party charges

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Metals

$16MM saved on hot roll P&O steel in aggregated purchasing for three manufacturers

$6MM saved on aerospace aluminum for an aerospace components producer

$3MM saved on MRO metals for 4 steel mills

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MRO

Identified savings ranging between 5 – 24% on over $36MM in spend for large, national grocery retailer while reducing suppliers from 350 to 10

Achieved 12 – 23% savings on $156M MRO spend and implemented MRO solution across 70 sites and 200 users for industrial packaging manufacturer

11% savings for consumer packaging manufacturer on $60MM in spend and integrated supplier solutions in to the customer’s ERP

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Packaging

$7 MM saved on store supplies and packaging for Retail customers

$2.5 MM saved on graphic corrugate packaging for Chemicals Marketer

$1.2 MM saved on plastic bottles and tubes for CPG Filler

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Telecom

Reduce the annual long-distance expense of $3.6MM by 6% by leveraging sourcing process and current benchmarks in an incumbent sourcing environment while reducing the minimum annual commitment (MAC)

Source a Telecom Expense Management BPO Sourcing including audit/recovery, bill pay management, optimization and cost allocation services yielding a first year savings >$1MM from ongoing network operations

Saved 20% on a leading services firm’s $6MM IP Data Communications network

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Travel

Implemented technology, reduced costs and increased compliance for $8B telecommunication company resulting in 4 - 10% savings for air and hotel spend

Saved $2B consumer products company over 12% on $12MM air and hotel spend through incumbent airline sourcing and use of eSourcing for hotel auctions in top markets

Conducted multi-category travel sourcing program for $10B management consultancy saving between 5 - 20% across agency, air, hotel, rental car, and ground transportation

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