Carlier Bason Limited

Carlier Bason Limited specialises in business transformation through effective use of Cost Reduction Strategy development and implementation.

With a background of Procurement and experience in complex contract negotiation, tendering, purchasing goods for resale, raw materials, packaging, indirect goods and services requirements as well as outsourcing, for a variety of businesses across a wide range of sectors. We have a proven track record of project delivery consistently delivering savings to the bottom line.

While significant savings can always be driven through effective negotiation often forgotten are the costs involved in the management of the Supply Chain. However well the price of a contract is negotiated, only the most efficient supply chains will deliver the best value and sustainability back to both the Supplier and the Customer. Most of these opportunities come from detailed analysis of the processes behind each supply chain, from the point of specifying the goods or service down to the customer’s ability to process and pay an invoice.

We have worked with a number of high profile clients to significantly improve their processes delivery efficiency and savings making better use of existing business systems. An area often overlooked by many businesses is the importance of regular, accurate, timely and appropriate business information to provide the business managers and decision makers with the ability to measure, report and make clear decisions on key aspects of their business. Often a business system is implemented to collect and process data from across the business whether it be sales, purchases or finance, but the capability of producing appropriate business information is often overlooked or doesn’t get the focus it deserves with ‘standard system reports’ delivering data but not information. We can work with any level of any business from board executives and senior managers to shop floor teams to deliver effective and appropriate management information to aid business decisions and improved strategic planning.

Business systems are implemented at great expense involving significant business time and effort, once the system is running there is often no further focus on what else the system may be able to achieve. Are you using your systems to their full potential? We can help you optimise these investments by ensuring the system is being fully and efficiently utilised across the business.

In addition we have managed cross functional and cross cultural teams, to deliver complex change projects, implemented systems and procedures to integrate acquired business, and managed teams remotely both within the UK and across Europe.

Specialties: Cost Reduction, Supplier Sourcing, Contract Drafting and Negotiation including Service Level Agreements, Outsourcing, Business Integration, Product and Service Specification Development, Process Improvement alongside Structural re-Organisation, Management Reporting and Systems Implementation, specifically in the areas of ERP, Purchase to Pay and Financial Reporting.