About CRA

Experts in business cost reduction

We specialize in cost reduction and profit improvement. Our experts have delivered over $500 Million in savings to our clients over the past decade. Our specialists analyze your purchasing patterns, pricing, usage information, and compare it against market trends and proprietary benchmarks.

Expense Reduction Services

Our expense reduction process begins with assessing your spending patterns, contracts, invoices, and electronic data to identify potential areas of savings. We provide detailed recommendations that include prioritized targets, realistic savings goals, and implementation plans. We work with you to implement savings recommendations across your company and with your suppliers. We continue to monitor savings programs monthly.

Supplier Management Services

Our supplier management services handle everything from identifying and qualifying suppliers to working with them daily to meet your company’s needs. Our goal is to establish good working relationships with your suppliers. We manage your suppliers by gathering all your contracts, contacts, and invoicing into one place. We implement supplier management processes, such as vendor onboarding to minimize delays in receiving services from your suppliers.

Operational Management

Our operational assessments examine all aspects of your business’ operations, including sales, marketing, administrative and production. Our goal is to identify areas to improve operational profitability, while growing your business. Our operational assessment allows you to bring a new perspective on your business.

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Our goal is to save our clients time and money.

We focus on understanding your vendor relationships and business prior to making recommendations. We present multiple strategic options to save you money and monitor the results after implementation is complete.

Preliminary Discovery:

We start by meeting with you and your team to understand what you are looking to accomplish. Is it reducing expenses; growing partnership channels, finding a new supplier? All discussions are kept confidential.

Spend & Contract Review:

We conduct an audit of your current contracts and expenses to look for potential savings opportunities. We compare your contracts and expenses against your usage and consumption data to see if any unused services can be eliminated. Identifying potential areas of savings

Supplier Optimization:

CRA experts work with your suppliers to negotiate updated pricing schedules, purchasing strategies, with the goal of reducing your expenses without impacting services. We then bring those results to your team’s attention and work with them to get approved.

Market Assessment:

Our goal is to find the goods and services you are buying today at lower costs. We examine market trends and identify potential risks that could also impact your ability to have goods and services provided in a timely manner and work with you to come up with contingency plans.

Execution & Implementation:

Once savings opportunities are approved, we work directly with your team and the supplier to put all new contracts, rates, and services into place. If you have chosen to purchase a net new service, or migrate to a new supplier, we will work with you to communicate all necessary changes to your team and ensure the appropriate training takes place.

Ongoing Monitoring:

CRA experts continue serving you well after the new contracts and processes are implemented. We partner with your teams to ensure that contract terms are adhered to. We ensure that we correct billing errors, fight back against mid-term price increases, and work with suppliers if service levels are not being met.

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Savings Results & Project Work

Our process has delivered savings across a wide array of industries and client sizes. Each project has been tailored to meet our clients’ needs without sacrificing service levels with their suppliers.

Featured Results

  • Grew a company’s revenue by $20 million per year by creating new performance metrics for their outsourced suppliers
  • Saved a professional services firm $3 million per year on software by eliminating unused licenses.
  • Reduced an education institution’s textbook cost by $500,000 by negotiating improved resale terms and conditions.
250
Projects Executed
500
Millions of Dollars Saved
20
Countries Served
30
Years of Experience