Overview of Our Services

Blonkvist Partners provides cost reduction, supply chain effectiveness and organizational leadership consultative services. We deliver these services through a number of models – hourly/daily rates, fixed-fee, and deliverables-based consulting assignments as well as temporary staffing for procurement, supply chain and program office functions.

Blonkvist Partners also has a number of supplemental connections (friends of Blonkvist Partners) that are potentially available to support our clients. These include global and specialized consultancies, a variety of technology providers, and a wide-range of professional relationships.

Please see below for representative service areas, client experiences, and case studies.

Enterprise Cost Reduction

Blonkvist Partners is building a significant footprint in the sourcing and procurement independent consulting arena. Our resources have an array of experiences that include.

Business Case Development:

Coming from major consulting firms, we know how to write business case communications documents. Blonkvist Partners can provide compelling arguments for our clients to move forward with their initiatives based on benchmarks, spend fragmentation, inventory carrying costs, logistics costs, and implementation costs. We estimate savings and provide sensitivity analysis on the business cases developed.

Enterprise Right-Sizing:

While not a popular subject, Blonkvist Partners has a handful of resources and strategic relationships that have significant experience with headcount reduction and redeployment. These resources understand how to identify reduction targets, design appropriate severance packages, and appropriately communicate and execute downsizing initiatives.

Strategic Sourcing:

Blonkvist Partners resources have sourced a multitude of direct materials and indirect goods and services. Our team is experienced. We have worked with various methodologies and supplier markets. We know how to conduct sourcing both efficiently and effectively. We can work with you to:

  • Review and define requirements
  • Assess supplier markets
  • Estimate savings targets
  • Define category strategy and implementation plan
  • Execute programs
  • Negotiate with suppliers
  • Establish Contracts & Contract Management Processes
  • Conduct stakeholder education

We have extensive experience with Low-Cost-Country Sourcing, particularly in the direct materials for industrial and high-tech manufacturing. Once again, we utilize in-country independent contractors or small consultancies to deliver exceptional market intelligence and on-the-ground execution.

Blonkvist Partners resources have experience with the requisite technology enablement tools of our profession. From spend analysis toolsets (e.g. Zykus, BIQ) to eRFX and Reverse Auction Toolsets (Iasta, VerticalNet, etc) to procure-to-pay technologies (Ariba, Oracle, etc), we are intimately familiar with procurement technology enablement.

Source-to-Pay Enablement:

From spend analysis to eRFX / Reverse Auction to Contract Lifecycle Management to Procure-to-Pay, we are intimately familiar with procurement and risk management technology enablement. We regularly help clients define requirements, solicit suppliers, score demonstrations, negotiate, contract with and ultimately implement a variety of Source to Pay Technology.

Supply Chain Effectiveness

Blonkvist Partners resources have significant experience leading enterprise-wide programs to help clients solve their most pressing supply problems.

Sales & Operations Planning:

Sales & Operations Planning is at the heart of effective supply chain operations. Our resources have supported Fortune 100 companies with a variety of initiatives including: plant shortage meetings, product line demand planning and business unit-wide operations planning and Executive S&OP. We carefully lead our client stakeholders through demand planning and supply planning coordination in order to deliver a sustainable S&OP process, typically within 4-6 months.

We have found that the process and communications enablement drives most of the value in Sales & Operations Planning. However, a limited but growing number of our resources have forecasting and replenishment technology experience, utilizing leading technologies to deliver outstanding results.

Working Capital Reduction:

Blonkvist Partners understands the underpinnings of working capital and can efficiently identify and implement opportunities for reductions. From the strategic review of the root causes of excess inventory to extending Accounts Payable terms to improving Accounts Receivable collections, we have supported clients with these critical activities that are at the operational heart of capital management.

Organizational Leadership

We recognize that sustainable organizational change can only be achieved through an investment in knowledge transfer.

Program Leadership:

Blonkvist Partners has a stable of experienced program management resources for IT, HR and Operations transformations. We know how to manage multi-facetted projects including complex IT implementations. Several resources within our network have PMP certifications. Many more have lead ERP or other significant technology implementations during their lengthy consulting careers.

It is important to note that since Blonkvist Partners does not provide technology resources, our clients get unbiased, objective counsel and effective program management. We are not on-site to sell more technology and technology consulting but to deliver your project in a timely cost-effective manner.