Client interview: Oriol Closa, Group Category Manager, Gunnebo - Expense Reduction Analysts
Cost Savings Today: Since when have you been working with Expense Reduction Analysts?
I started working with them over 2 years ago, when they participated in the analysis of Gunnebo Spain indirect costs, but only occasionally.
From November 2011, we started working together on the international project that I am managing (IMOP). I suggested commissioning them to analyse and optimise Gunnebo’s indirect costs across Europe and here we are.
CST: What made you want to sign up with them?
In April 2011, I was appointed Head of International Purchases for indirect materials, and thought that Gunnebo would need an external partner that would be solvent, professional and wide-spread to lead a European project of costs optimisation, all this without taking too many economic risks.
CST: What structure does Gunnebo have in Spain?
The company has currently 16 offices; our main activity is to provide comprehensive security services that can range from a safe to the installation of CCTV systems, etc.
CST: In your opinion, what specifically made you commission the project to Expense Reduction Analysts?
The business model, in which each cost category is analysed by a dedicated expert, and the fact that there is no remuneration until there are savings generated for the company.
CST: What has been the biggest success of the project?
We are still in the process of drawing recommendation reports.
CST: How did you get the idea to export this realisation to the different countries where Gunnebo can be found?
We do not have sufficient internal resources at Gunnebo to address this type of projects with a guarantee of optimal quality and deadlines. So I thought that Expense Reduction Analysts, with their international network, could compensate for the lack of internal resources.
CST: What is your level of satisfaction with Expense Reduction Analysts? What would you recommend them for?
I am overall very satisfied with the work currently done and would recommend them mainly for the minimal financial risk it poses on top of the quality of work achieved by each cost category analyst.
I started working with them over 2 years ago, when they participated in the analysis of Gunnebo Spain indirect costs, but only occasionally.
From November 2011, we started working together on the international project that I am managing (IMOP). I suggested commissioning them to analyse and optimise Gunnebo’s indirect costs across Europe and here we are.
CST: What made you want to sign up with them?
In April 2011, I was appointed Head of International Purchases for indirect materials, and thought that Gunnebo would need an external partner that would be solvent, professional and wide-spread to lead a European project of costs optimisation, all this without taking too many economic risks.
CST: What structure does Gunnebo have in Spain?
The company has currently 16 offices; our main activity is to provide comprehensive security services that can range from a safe to the installation of CCTV systems, etc.
CST: In your opinion, what specifically made you commission the project to Expense Reduction Analysts?
The business model, in which each cost category is analysed by a dedicated expert, and the fact that there is no remuneration until there are savings generated for the company.
CST: What has been the biggest success of the project?
We are still in the process of drawing recommendation reports.
CST: How did you get the idea to export this realisation to the different countries where Gunnebo can be found?
We do not have sufficient internal resources at Gunnebo to address this type of projects with a guarantee of optimal quality and deadlines. So I thought that Expense Reduction Analysts, with their international network, could compensate for the lack of internal resources.
CST: What is your level of satisfaction with Expense Reduction Analysts? What would you recommend them for?
I am overall very satisfied with the work currently done and would recommend them mainly for the minimal financial risk it poses on top of the quality of work achieved by each cost category analyst.
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