PRODUCTS + SERVICES PROCUREMENT
ESTABLISH THE FACTS.For procurement and category leaders managing suppliers, products and services across multiple locations, with Finance, Engineering and Operations at the table.
We find the opportunity,
drive the change, and verify
the financial benefit.
01 / WHO WE SERVE
Years of local buying decisions can leave suppliers, contracts and specifications fragmented. Our focus is the work between your systems and teams: evaluating better combinations, validating the tradeoffs and helping approved changes take hold.
PRODUCTS + SERVICES
Parts, tools, MRO, packaging and materials.
Software, maintenance, facilities and other purchased services.
PROCUREMENT OPTIMIZATION
BETTER CHOICES. FOLLOWED THROUGH.Start with one buying decision. We connect purchase history, supplier options and requirements, then agree the analysis, technical review and implementation responsibilities.
Evaluate the supplier and contract base against several years of purchases. Compare combinations that consolidate demand, improve terms and preserve operational fit.
Deliverable: a prioritized, evidence-backed sourcing planUse drawings and guiding documents to assess existing parts, approved alternatives and supplier capabilities before a new design creates another sourcing commitment.
Deliverable: options with technical differences and qualification needsHelp locations adopt approved items and buying routes. Build rollout, training and exception handling around the reasons people buy outside the standard.
Deliverable: an implementation and adoption plan with accountable ownersEvaluate financial benefit and supply chain risk together. Account for quality, availability, supplier capacity, concentration, switching costs and applicable requirements. Track approved decisions through actual buying and Finance review, with risk improvements evidenced separately from savings.
02 / THE APPROACH
FOUR STAGES. ONE CONTINUOUS STANDARD.Connect purchase history across locations with contracts, supplier relationships, standards and actual demand. Establish where your current tools and team already have the answer.
Engagements are founder-led and scoped to the category, available evidence and delivery capacity. Your technical owners approve suitability and substitutions. Automated analysis is used only where it has been validated.
THE WORK IN PRACTICE
Illustrative scenarios show the buying decisions we work through. These are not customer results or live analysis. Explore the decision study for a complete simulated example with traceable evidence and financial calculations.
Explore The Decision Study ↗FROM FRAGMENTATION TO ADOPTION
Locations buy similar tools from different suppliers. Compare actual requirements, preferred-source availability and reasons for deviation before proposing a common buying route.
Customer drawings, safety guidelines, approved-item lists and service requirements inform candidate selection. Technical and safety owners approve applicability and substitutions. Similarity alone does not establish suitability.
04 / TECHNOLOGY WITH ACCOUNTABILITY
The intended system connects purchases, requirements and supplier evidence so people can evaluate more of the choices that matter.
THE EXPERIENCE BEHIND STERLING CURRENT
Building Sterling Current
A purchasing decision creates value when it changes what the business actually buys.
View Anna Katherine’s LinkedInAnna Katherine brings experience across global commodity management, PPE and safety procurement, construction procurement, and digital technology sourcing.
She is building Sterling Current to connect sourcing decisions with implementation, actual financial benefit and stronger supply continuity. The focus spans products and purchased services, guided by the requirements of the people and operations that depend on them.
These figures describe Anna Katherine’s career experience before Sterling Current, as reported in her professional profile.
INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE / JANUARY 2019
BIC Magazine quoted Anna Katherine during her time at AMECO on properly fitting PPE and purchasing programs. That work connects procurement choices to the needs of the people who rely on them.
Read The BIC Magazine CoverageQUESTIONS YOUR TEAM IS WORKING THROUGH
Evaluate supplier overlap, volume consolidation and total cost without losing capacity, quality or supply continuity. ↗
Address off-standard buying through practical catalogs, local rollout, supplier availability and a clear purchasing exception process. ↗
Bring Engineering and Procurement together to evaluate approved-part reuse, supplier capability and new-source qualification. ↗
Connect software usage, license tiers and renewal terms to practical reassignment, consolidation and purchasing decisions. ↗
Compare scopes, delivered work and demand across locations before changing providers or commitments. ↗
START WITH A REAL BUYING PROBLEM
Begin with a category, a group of locations or an upcoming sourcing decision. Establish what your team already knows and where additional analysis and implementation support could make a difference.
Supplier overlap? Too many part variations? Software renewals? Locations buying outside the standard?
Identify the relevant purchase history, contracts, standards and operational or usage records. Confirm a bounded scope and customer reviewers.
Agree what we will evaluate, who can approve a change and how its financial benefit will be measured.
Explore the assessment without an email address, then request a conversation about your buying problem. Please keep confidential records out of the inquiry form. We agree appropriate document handling before any analysis.