Strategic Sourcing

Akela’s strategic sourcing follows a systematic method of acquiring goods and services from suppliers based on your organisation’s strategic objectives, and typically includes a tailored total cost management and value chain analysis. Akela applies different sourcing strategies to help you acquire fit for purpose products or services, and analyse aspects such as spend value, risk, and supply market characteristics. As a key component of supply chain management, Akela’s process represents a shift from conventional tactical level purchases to buy strategically and collaboratively. Akela works with you to establish well-planned service acquisitions that considers enterprise level spending trends and future state requirements.

Strategic Vendor Management

Organisations typically lose approximately 9% of revenue through poor vendor management. Akela works closely with you to determine and assess your organisation’s supply categories and supplier capabilities, ensure alignment with your business strategy, and develop mutually beneficial relationships with your supply and service delivery partners. This is achieved through trust, open communication, and collaboration at all levels. This also reduces the lost revenue through poor practices.

Contract Management

Akela has a well-established record of working closely with organisations to regain control of their vendor costs, drive service excellence, and mitigate risks to gain increased value from their vendors and relevant contracts.

Procurement Management

Strategic Procurement

Is a systematic, long term and holistic approach to acquiring current and future needs of an organisation that will deliver long term value.

Tactical Procurements

Is based on short term, transactional activity. Uses a routine approach and is often reactive and focussed on lowest cost.

Commercial Services

Akela provides strategic commercial advice and strategies to help organisations to achieve their operational and strategic business requirements. We also have extensive experience in helping you build commercial acumen across your teams as part of your capability uplift program.

We ensure that your people are taken on the journey, and your systems and data are secure throughout the end-to-end process.

We focus on unlocking the high performance of your organisation and people through a co-design approach, ensuring the adaptability of your systems, organisation structure, work environment, team behaviours and interactions.

Our process identifies key business gaps, risks, and opportunities. It delivers meaningful insights for your leaders to take targeted action at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels.

Headquartered In Australia, we have an extensive global network that we leverage to ensure we provide international best business practices and leadingleading-edge technologies for you.

Akela will ensure your commercial and operational activities effectively align with your business requirements and strategic objectives through our tailored and out-of-the-box solutions.

Commercial Services

Akela can help align and manage your supply and supplier capabilities with your business strategy and develop mutually beneficial relationships with your suppliers. We can also help enable you to control costs, drive service excellence, and mitigate risks to gain increased value from your vendors.

Supply Chain Optimisation

This is a marathon and not a sprint. Akela conducts a deep dive into your operations to determine your business requirements and customer expectations for shorter lead times and more responsive services (known as the Amazon Effect).

Supply Chain Visibility

Akela integrates vast amounts of data from multiple sources in our supply chain management system to provide near real-time visibility of your end-to-end supply chain - from factory, through distribution, to arrival at the customer.

4PL - Logistics as A Service (LAAS)

Akela provides tiered levels of fully customisable and integrated logistics management and operational solutions. We achieve this through our global network of 3PLs, forwarders, brokers, agents, and specialist logistics service providers.