HUMAN EXPERTISE × MACHINE PRECISION
The market sells you a tool, or a consultant running someone else's tool. We are the senior sourcing strategist and the optimization engine in one team, applying Operations Research and Management Science to tune value, quality, risk, and ESG into one award that holds.
Push one fader and another distorts. The award that holds is the whole mix.
methodology: hard-coded · customised per engagement
Real engagements at European leaders. Full case studies on request.
Each participating supplier wins, and the buyer wins most.
It happens to almost everyone, because the saving that matters was never sitting at the table to begin with.
The bids are in, and the savings are in with them. Yet the award that captures them sits in a combinatorial space too large for any manual process and too nuanced to settle on price alone. The deeper saving is not won at the table. It is lost in the award, in the combinations a manual process never reaches, and reaching them needs neither a person nor a machine working alone.
That is why OptiProq runs even your hardest sourcing events for you, as a managed service on our proprietary Wave 3 optimisation engine: Managed Supply-Base Optimization, delivered Outcome-as-a-Service. Most procurement runs straight to dividing a fixed pie, and the only lever left is price pressure. We start a step earlier, before the pie is divided. The total value is grown first, by embedding early through Explorative Sourcing and swift consultations, by retiring the supplier risk premium with assured volume and multi-period awards that let a supplier price for certainty or loyalty, and by unlocking the synergies hidden in package conditions, bundles, and term ladders. The deeper saving comes from a bigger pie, not from a thinner deal.
It works because Human Expertise × Machine Precision finds awards that neither a seasoned sourcing lead nor a machine would land on its own. Each participating supplier wins, and the buyer wins most: every supplier keeps a documented route to win, and the buyer holds the lever on the package conditions, first making sure the right ones trigger, then activating many in parallel across the award. Your Category Lead lands the deeper award and captures the value, while your team gains more strategic reach, trading repetitive bid analysis for the work that actually moves the category. We price on the outcome, not a licence, and the result should earn its keep, or we should not be in the room.
Sourcing never sat naturally in your ERP. The value is not in the module bundled with the suite. It is in the event we run, optimisation and a senior expert, that actually makes it.
A licence model can pitch one of those line items, partially two, never all three. And the market offers either a SaaS tool alone, or a boutique expert running someone else's tool: two contracts, one seam, no single accountability. OptiProq is the senior sourcing strategist and the optimization engineering in one team, one accountability, with a light footprint, so all three lines move at once.
Less Cost
A standardised sourcing module costs you money even bundled free in the ERP. A specialised one, sourcing optimisation plus a senior expert, generates it. The value is made in the event, not the licence.
Less Labor, More Strategic Reach
The sourcing project that does not need a sourcing project team. Your team's hours move up from building dashboards to deciding the award.
More Outcome
Complex package conditions break standardised tools. Our constraint model carries them all the way to one resilient award.
First clients
Across our first client engagements, the improvement delivered averaged 52 times our fee. Full case studies on request.
The supply base is a control surface, not a spreadsheet. Push one fader and another distorts: cut price and risk clips, chase ESG and value cross-fades. The win is the coupled result.
2006 scored cost, cash, quality and service; risk was invisible. 2026 scores value, quality, risk and ESG, and the board is liable for supplier ethics. The award that wins today is the award that holds.
The investor's channel: triple-net economics, not sticker price.
Fidelity: fit-to-use and the cost of low quality, quantified into the award.
The fader that blows the speakers: concentration, continuity, capacity.
The annual-report channel: licence to operate, weighted into the model, never a checkbox.
>We tune the board; you make the call.
STUDIO RECORDING
The award, engineered. Explorative Sourcing surfaces what the market can really offer; Expressive Bidding lets each supplier add package conditions within your structure; Inter-Round Optimization re-decides the award between rounds. Then it is printed to a contract that holds.
LIVE MIXING
The market moves and the enemy is drift. Cross-fade volumes where the framework allows, refresh index-linked prices, tune specs on running contracts. Each signal moves at its true tempo: commodity prices near real time, risk and ESG roughly quarterly. It tells you when to go back to market; it never replaces a competition you are required to run.
In our SME Collaboration engagements a Senior SME orchestrates while the Twin runs the analytical depth: Spend, Contract, Market, Compliance and Discovery Strategists, a Scenario Architect and a Data Scientist, with an Engagement Synthesizer producing the decision-ready artefacts. You don't buy a roadmap. You watch your own board light up, one fader at a time.
>The decision is yours. The model comes home to your team.
Operations Research and Management Science, applied to your supply base. No black box: named mechanisms, an audit-ready trace, and the decision stays yours.
01 / MODEL
Package conditions, multi-spec scenarios, supplier capacity, your risk appetite: risk, quality and ESG quantified into the award next to price.
02 / ROUNDS
Suppliers bring their structural offer through Expressive Bidding. Between rounds, Inter-Round Optimization re-decides the award and every participant receives a precise Path to Win through Expressive Feedback. The honesty is the leverage.
03 / AWARD
Scenarios ranked across value, quality, risk and ESG, with the trade-offs visible. The Category Lead signs the award, and the codified strategy comes home to your team.
Layer by layer, the Wave 3 method takes more total cost out of the award. We can work on a performance fee, tied to the savings we add, when that is your preference.
1Price-based manual nomination
The typical organisational capability, a human with Excel. The threshold is locked with you at kickoff.
1Price-based manual nomination
The typical organisational capability, a human with Excel. The threshold is locked with you at kickoff.
2Constraint optimum
A standard optimiser finds the best award on price. Wave 3 builds from here.
3Explorative Sourcingan OptiProq original
We work the supplier capabilities and include the tail. We develop the relationships while we rationalise. Strategic and relational: the pie grows before it is shared, then the award lands lower still.
4Expressive Feedbackan OptiProq original
Each supplier receives a Path to Win: exactly where to bend its package to land more, so the synergies surface within your structure. An OptiProq original, the feedback only a Wave 3 method gives.
5Inter-Round Optimizationan OptiProq original
The award is re-decided between rounds as the field sharpens, carrying each round's learning into the next.
6Multi-Room bid dynamics
Game theory and a time-boxed, multi-room close turn competitive pressure into a fair, multi-dimensional award.
The proof, from real engagements
Across our first client engagements, Category Leads earned an average 52x return on our fee, up to 68x on a single engagement.
Three stories from the first clients. Magnitudes here; the full case studies on request.
THE TRIPLE-NET STORY
Invoice price held flat against market headwinds while captured bonus grew 7.2%. Triple net, that is net-net-net: invoice price, net of the local bonus, net of the international bonus, improved by 11 million euros a year.
THE RESILIENCE STORY
Shrinking demand, scarce capacity, rising prices. Volume consolidated onto fewer suppliers, bonus up 19%, and the run-rate held: a defended award, not a paper saving.
THE CAPEX STORY
A one-off 50-million-euro capex programme plus roughly 30 million euros a year in consumables and maintenance, tendered as one total cost of ownership and awarded as a seven-year contract. The operating run-rate fell 33 percent, and the saving grew in the contract year: savings that hold.
Full case studies on request.
"Sourcing direct materials from Europe, India, and China with only six homologated sources globally requires extreme precision. OptiProq developed an interactive model that successfully stimulated competition where we thought none existed, significantly reducing our global cost base."
Global Chemicals Leader
Head of Direct Sourcing
"They challenged the traditional trade-off between cost and quality. By tweaking our decision model and open-book calculations for temporary labor, they managed to increase staff salaries and retention while simultaneously reducing our total cost of ownership. It was a win-win enabled by data."
Global Petrochemicals
Procurement Manager
"Optimizing a post-merger supply chain across 55 countries is a mathematical nightmare. OptiProq managed the entire scope, hundreds of suppliers and capacity constraints, balancing net invoice prices with complex local and international bonus structures. They solved the puzzle."
Global Mobility & Leasing
Procurement Director
Entry shapes, not pricing tiers: where you start depends on how your organisation buys.
Enter on one live category, inside one mandate. The event proves the mechanism on your own data, and you keep the codified strategy.
A programme of events across categories, sized so the business case carries the engagement. Where both sides prefer it, our fee is tied to the saving delivered.
Your shared service center standardises on one platform. OptiSource becomes the resident surface, with the senior team and the Twin behind it.
Twenty years of strategic sourcing and the engineering to codify it. Senior capability added to the team you already have, in their shadow, built to fade as your people absorb the method.
You see the constraint model, the Path to Win pack for every supplier, and the award trace before you sign anything.
Would you like to work in a small team supporting big clients? Do you have 10+ years of experience in procurement, are you highly educated and can you code?
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