Procurement and supply chain transformation. Delivered, not just diagnosed.
A team of experienced practitioners equipped with proprietary AI-enabled technology will work alongside your team, not above it. Our proven model across cost, capability, digital and data delivers for every part of procurement and supply chain.
Procurement and supply chain transformation. Delivered, not just diagnosed.
A team of experienced practitioners equipped with proprietary AI-enabled technology will work alongside your team, not above it. Our proven model across cost, capability, digital and data delivers for every part of procurement and supply chain.
Procurement and supply chain transformation. Delivered, not just diagnosed.
A team of experienced practitioners equipped with proprietary AI-enabled technology will work alongside your team, not above it. Our proven model across cost, capability, digital and data delivers for every part of procurement and supply chain.
We partner with you to build lasting capability, and create solutions that deliver measurable outcomes.
Procurement’s share of transformation value is well evidenced. Here’s what the research shows.
of total financial impact in a transformation programme typically comes from procurement.
of total financial impact in a transformation programme typically comes from procurement.
more likely to hit enterprise-wide savings targets when procurement hits its own.
of the average savings pipeline leaks away in planning, before execution loses a further fifth.
McKinsey, 2025. 340,000+ transformation initiatives, $200bn+ in value.
About Promote
Why we exist.
Transformation can lose momentum between ambition and delivery.
Procurement and supply chain programmes can stall when ownership fragments, decisions slow and data becomes difficult to trust.
We exist to close that gap.
We combine practitioner experience, practical technology and hands-on delivery to turn insight into measurable outcomes and lasting capability.
Rory Grumley
Co-Founder
Leads procurement, Source-to-Pay and AI-enabled transformation, combining strategy, data and process design with hands-on delivery.
Simon Smith
Co-Founder
Brings C-suite and Chief Procurement Officer experience across procurement transformation and supplier strategy, helping organisations strengthen commercial decisions and delivery.
Trusted by clients who return
Practitioner-led delivery
A partner, not a passing adviser
Trusted by clients who return
Practitioner-led delivery
A partner, not a passing adviser
Trusted by the teams we deliver alongside
Value delivered
£2bn
Savings delivered across procurement, supply chain and digital transformation programmes.
Partnerships delivered
150+
Engagements delivered across public and private sector organisations, with experience spanning complex operating environments.
Time to a validated picture
2–4 wks
A focused Savings Opportunity Assessment can move from fragmented spend data to a prioritised opportunity map with your team.
Time to a validated picture
2–4 wks
A focused Savings Opportunity Assessment can move from fragmented spend data to a prioritised opportunity map with your team.
Data accuracy
120,000+
Supplier insight records supporting more traceable category strategies, supplier decisions and reporting.
Data accuracy
120,000+
Supplier insight records supporting more traceable category strategies, supplier decisions and reporting.
Our Services
Three disciplines.
One integrated approach.
Commercial performance, supply chain resilience and digital enablement, connected rather than run as separate practices. Most engagements draw on more than one.
01
Procurement & Cost Optimisation
Protecting margin, improving supplier value and turning commercial opportunity into delivered benefit.
02
Supply Chain Excellence
Planning, inventory and supply resilience improved together, so service holds, working capital is released and disruption is absorbed.
03
Digital & Data Enablement
Data, automation and AI designed around real operations, so decisions stop waiting on the numbers.
We can supplement your team's capacity, build capability inside it, or run the programme in full.
Most clients start with one discipline and pull in the others as the picture sharpens.
Our Services
Three disciplines.
One integrated approach.
Commercial performance, supply chain resilience and digital enablement, connected rather than run as separate practices. Most engagements draw on more than one.
01
Procurement & Cost Optimisation
Protecting margin, improving supplier value and turning commercial opportunity into delivered benefit.
02
Supply Chain Excellence
Planning, inventory and supply resilience improved together, so service holds, working capital is released and disruption is absorbed.
03
Digital & Data Enablement
Data, automation and AI designed around real operations, so decisions stop waiting on the numbers.
We can supplement your team's capacity, build capability inside it, or run the programme in full.
Most clients start with one discipline and pull in the others as the picture sharpens.
Our Services
Three disciplines.
One integrated approach.
Commercial performance, supply chain resilience and digital enablement, connected rather than run as separate practices. Most engagements draw on more than one.
01
Procurement & Cost Optimisation
Protecting margin, improving supplier value and turning commercial opportunity into delivered benefit.
02
Supply Chain Excellence
Planning, inventory and supply resilience improved together, so service holds, working capital is released and disruption is absorbed.
03
Digital & Data Enablement
Data, automation and AI designed around real operations, so decisions stop waiting on the numbers.
We can supplement your team's capacity, build capability inside it, or run the programme in full.
Most clients start with one discipline and pull in the others as the picture sharpens.
We stay close to the outcome.
Understand the starting point
We start with your priorities, your data and your operating context, so the first decision rests on something real rather than an assumption.
Build the right path
We turn that starting point into practical priorities, shaped around value, risk, capability and the decisions your team actually has to make.
Deliver alongside you
We stay through delivery, working inside your team rather than beside it, and benefits are tracked openly and signed off where they land.
We stay close to the outcome.
Understand the starting point
We start with your priorities, your data and your operating context, so the first decision rests on something real rather than an assumption.
Build the right path
We turn that starting point into practical priorities, shaped around value, risk, capability and the decisions your team actually has to make.
Deliver alongside you
We stay through delivery, working inside your team rather than beside it, and benefits are tracked openly and signed off where they land.
We stay close to the outcome.
Understand the starting point
We start with your priorities, your data and your operating context, so the first decision rests on something real rather than an assumption.
Build the right path
We turn that starting point into practical priorities, shaped around value, risk, capability and the decisions your team actually has to make.
Deliver alongside you
We stay through delivery, working inside your team rather than beside it, and benefits are tracked openly and signed off where they land.
OUR SOLUTIONS
OUR SOLUTIONS
Connected solutions.
Built to deliver at pace.
AI-enabled solutions across savings, supplier intelligence, sustainable procurement and analytics, built to accelerate decisions and strengthen delivery.
01/04 · Savings Insight
Spend data cleansed.
Savings opportunities revealed.
AI powered spend data categorisation, scored and prioritised into savings opportunities you can act on.
Most savings opportunities are hidden by bad data: mis-categorised spend, unreliable supplier records, no visibility of risk. Savings Insight cleanses your spend data using machine learning, then scores each category for maturity and quantifies the opportunity, so your team knows exactly where to focus first.
AI-powered cleanse corrects mis-categorised spend
Category maturity scores and prioritised savings opportunities
Financial risk scoring for business-critical suppliers
Cloud application with interactive, drill-down reporting
01/04 · Savings Insight
Spend data cleansed.
Savings opportunities revealed.
AI powered spend data categorisation, scored and prioritised into savings opportunities you can act on.
Most savings opportunities are hidden by bad data: mis-categorised spend, unreliable supplier records, no visibility of risk. Savings Insight cleanses your spend data using machine learning, then scores each category for maturity and quantifies the opportunity, so your team knows exactly where to focus first.
AI-powered cleanse corrects mis-categorised spend
Category maturity scores and prioritised savings opportunities
Financial risk scoring for business-critical suppliers
Cloud application with interactive, drill-down reporting
01/04 · Savings Insight
Spend data cleansed.
Savings opportunities revealed.
AI powered spend data categorisation, scored and prioritised into savings opportunities you can act on.
Most savings opportunities are hidden by bad data: mis-categorised spend, unreliable supplier records, no visibility of risk. Savings Insight cleanses your spend data using machine learning, then scores each category for maturity and quantifies the opportunity, so your team knows exactly where to focus first.
AI-powered cleanse corrects mis-categorised spend
Category maturity scores and prioritised savings opportunities
Financial risk scoring for business-critical suppliers
Cloud application with interactive, drill-down reporting
02 / 04 · Supplier Insight
Supplier data verification
and SME classification
A supplier base you can report on without caveats.
Duplicated records, dormant entities and unclassified spend make SME and VCSE reporting indefensible. Supplier Insight verifies the base against Companies House and the statutory registers, then classifies it to a standard that survives audit.
Companies House verification at scale
SME classification against statutory thresholds
VCSE and charity register reconciliation
Exception queue for records needing a human decision
02 / 04 · Supplier Insight
Supplier data verification
and SME classification
A supplier base you can report on without caveats.
Duplicated records, dormant entities and unclassified spend make SME and VCSE reporting indefensible. Supplier Insight verifies the base against Companies House and the statutory registers, then classifies it to a standard that survives audit.
Companies House verification at scale
SME classification against statutory thresholds
VCSE and charity register reconciliation
Exception queue for records needing a human decision
02 / 04 · Supplier Insight
Supplier data verification
and SME classification
A supplier base you can report on without caveats.
Duplicated records, dormant entities and unclassified spend make SME and VCSE reporting indefensible. Supplier Insight verifies the base against Companies House and the statutory registers, then classifies it to a standard that survives audit.
Companies House verification at scale
SME classification against statutory thresholds
VCSE and charity register reconciliation
Exception queue for records needing a human decision
Blogs & Insights
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Testimonials
"Promote worked with our organisation very much as partner, injecting commercial knowledge and skill to leave a lasting legacy both in terms of our approach and cashable savings."
Head of Procurement
Local Authority
"The Promote Team’s deep subject matter & delivery knowledge was critical to the successful delivery of our programme."
Transformation Director
Public Sector
Testimonials
"Promote worked with our organisation very much as partner, injecting commercial knowledge and skill to leave a lasting legacy both in terms of our approach and cashable savings."
Head of Procurement
Local Authority
"The Promote Team’s deep subject matter & delivery knowledge was critical to the successful delivery of our programme."
Transformation Director
Public Sector
Testimonials
“Promote worked with our organisation very much as partner, injecting commercial knowledge and skill to leave a lasting legacy both in terms of our approach and cashable savings.”
Head of Procurement
Local Authority
“The Promote Team’s deep subject matter & delivery knowledge was critical to the successful delivery of our programme.”
Transformation Director
Public Sector
