From analysing travellers' spend activity, to developing a purchasing strategy, through to implementation of preferred suppliers and tracking of compliance and performance against supplier contracts. The goal is to achieve the most beneficial deal for your organisation.

Strategic purchasing consulting focuses on supporting spend category management activities. These include company specific research, analysis, benchmarking, supplier selection and negotiations.

Administrative processing costs are equivalent to a self-imposed fee organisations incur in addition to the direct costs incurred when purchasing travel or maintenance, repair and operating (MRO) items. These costs can be significant. For example, extensive research indicates that Travel & Entertainment (T & E) related administrative costs could be an additional 3% to 15% of the total direct T & E expenditure.

American Express Consulting can assist in developing and communicating a comprehensive travel or purchasing policy. This will help control expenditure by improving compliance and reducing costs. This includes both direct purchasing costs and indirect processing costs as well as increasing convenience.

Services vary to suit your needs. They range from high level analysis of policy performance, guidance for writing a policy, to in-depth, customised review and re-engineering solutions.

Streamline the way you conduct business and reduce labour intensive processes and paperwork. Our consultants help determine the right electronic solutions for your organisation.

Services can be as fundamental as opportunity analysis, definition of requirements, vendor assessment, implementation of expense management software and online travel solutions.