Facilities Maintenance

Indirect Spend Management Consulting

Strategic Sourcing Strategies For The Facilities Maintenance and Facilities Management Category

Corcentric has the tools, resources, and decades of expertise to help organizations efficiently manage a category-diverse set of facilities maintenance service providers.

Finding the right suppliers to maintain your facilities can be difficult and time consuming. From janitorial services, to groundskeeping and maintenance supplies, ensuring suppliers are providing apples-to-apples quotes, developing contracts with clear service levels, and validating that supplier quality of service and productivity levels are maintained are all critical to the success of any facilities maintenance project. Attempts to cut costs in the facilities maintenance category are tempered by the inability to endanger the standards for the safety and comfort of your employees. For many organizations, this results in their paying a premium to their facilities maintenance suppliers.

Corcentric’s strategic sourcing team takes factors like these seriously when approaching projects within the facility maintenance category. We understand that your facilities maintenance scope of work needs to be centered on high service levels so that your business does not experience disruptions at any level of operation. Our team of in-house strategic sourcing experts are versed in the latest technologies and trends in facilities management, and will use this market intelligence to develop the ideal program for your business’s needs.

We have extensive experience helping companies resolve the most common challenges faced by Facility Managers and Procurement teams, including:

Facility Maintenance Challenge: Supplier Management

Managing internal work vs. outsourced work
Evaluating supplier performance – SLAs and KPIs
Tracking and compliance of pricing agreements

Corcentric has the tools, resources, and decades of expertise to help organizations efficiently manage a category-diverse set of facilities maintenance service providers.

Facility Maintenance Challenge: Availability and Accuracy of Data

Collecting historical price points and trend data
Receiving clear, concise continuous reporting
Management of maintenance and repair records

Facility Maintenance Challenge: Selecting the Right Partners

Choosing the right team for the job
Determining what services should be performed in-house vs. a partner
Fewer resources to perform an adequate supplier selection evaluation

Facility Maintenance Challenge: Asset Management

Maintaining existing equipment longer
Making decisions on which equipment to replace and when
Determining the right mix of preventative maintenance and a break/fix scope of work

Facility Maintenance Challenge: Reducing Costs

“Doing more with less” – resource constraints
Operational budgets cut and capital expenditures minimized
Creating facility efficiencies

With all of these challenges, procurement departments and facilities managers can benefit from Corcentric’s more than two decades worth of accumulated market intelligence and cross-industry best practices. Our team of strategic sourcing experts will perform a thorough analysis of your current baseline data and benchmark this against the market. Our team reviews everything from rates, price points, scope of work, staffing levels, and supplier performance, including service levels and key performance indicators. Our strategic sourcing team will collaborate with your internal teams to ensure that efficiencies are achieved by consolidating scopes of work and providers, negotiating best-in-class agreements and pricing, and developing a rigorous continuous improvement program that will ensure sustainable results from your facilities maintenance suppliers going forward. Our strategic sourcing team’s efforts ensure the recommendations we provide are customized to your specific needs, and include improving upon existing SOWs and identifying future requirements. Our team will work closely with your suppliers to implement any new programs or enhancements to current programs.

Corcentric’s strategic sourcing team can service all of your facilities maintenance needs, including:

Waste Management – Solid, HazMat, and Recycling
Industrial Waste Management
Janitorial Services & Supplies
Elevator Maintenance
Landscaping & Snow Removal
HVAC Maintenance & Supplies
Pest Control
Security Services
Security Systems Maintenance
Energy Plan Maintenance
Window Washing
Uniform & Industrial Rentals
Food Services & Supplies
Generator Maintenance
Moving & Storage
Fire Protection Services
Utilities – Natural Gas, Electricity, and Alternative Sources of Energy
Industrial Equipment Maintenance

Facilities Maintenance Savings Drivers

Corcentric can achieve hard and soft dollar savings within your facilities maintenance budget through:

Accurate service and cost benchmarking
SOW development and implementation
Effective rate negotiations
Adept Supplier Relationship Management
In-depth spend analysis and contract management
Ongoing savings and compliance reporting

Corcentric has produced extraordinary solutions for a number of satisfied clients in the management of their facilities management spend over the past two decades.

Office Supplies Savings

In addition to facilities maintenance, Corcentric has worked with a number of clients to identify savings elsewhere within their office spend – including office supplies. Whether it involves original equipment manufacturer vs. third party manufacturer determinations on replacement supplies, establishing a storefront with the vendor to consolidate spend to a list of preapproved SKUs, or leveraging spend volume to secure preferential terms, pricing, and signing bonuses with a vendor, Corcentric’s office supplies strategic sourcing team can develop a solution custom tailored to your needs.

Office Supplies