Vendor Analysis
published on Apr 26, 2021
Report Overview:
This NelsonHall vendor assessment analyzes 4C Associates' offerings and capabilities in Procurement Transformation.
Who is this Report for:
NelsonHall’s procurement transformation profile on 4C Associates is a comprehensive assessment of 4C Associates’s offerings and capabilities, designed for:
- Sourcing managers monitoring the capabilities of existing suppliers of procurement transformation services and identifying vendor suitability for procurement services RFPs
- Vendor marketing, sales, and business managers looking to benchmark themselves against their peers
- Financial analysts and investors specializing in the F&A and Supply Chain services sector.
Scope of this Report:
The report provides a comprehensive and objective analysis of 4C Associates’s procurement offerings and capabilities, and market and financial strengths, including:
- Identification of the company’s strategy, emphasis, and new developments
- Analysis of the company’s strengths, weaknesses, and outlook
- Revenue estimates
- Analysis of the profile of the company’s customer base, including the company’s targeting strategy and examples of current contracts
- Analysis of the company’s offerings and key service components
- Analysis of the company’s delivery organization, including the location of delivery locations.
Key Findings & Highlights:
4C Associates (4C) is a procurement and supply chain consultancy headquartered in the U.K. 4C highlights that its approach to procurement transformation is creative in the way it looks to “reinvent” the procurement function.
4C provides cost optimization, procurement transformation, and technology consulting services. It has a set of proprietary spend, contract, and risk analytics tools. As well as its employees, it uses a network of associates that have technical or category expertise.
In 2020, 4C leveraged its healthcare and medical supplies procurement experience to support the U.K. public sector and the NHS in responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. As the U.K. starts to recover from the impact, 4C is looking to re-establish and build new relationships with private sector clients.
In December 2020, 4C Associates acquired two U.K.-based consultancies, EBIT Intelligent procurement and MCP2. The acquired businesses continue to be led by their founders and directors.