Strategic sourcing for European manufacturing companies

Procurement savings you can put in this year's budget.

Ordito delivers measurable savings on your third-party spend, negotiated hands-on with your buyers and business owners rather than handed over in a report. Our founding team's experience covers more than €100 million in negotiated savings across €1.5 billion of spend. Our engagements start with a two-week assessment that sizes the opportunity before you commit.

Discuss the value opportunity Our approach
Who we work with

European manufacturing companies with revenues between €100 million and €1 billion.

At €100 million of revenue, third-party spend is typically €40 to €60 million. A 7% saving is worth €3 to €4 million, often a material share of annual profit.

Below €100 million, the numbers rarely justify a structured procurement program. Above €1 billion, most companies have a well-established procurement organization. Ordito focuses on the companies in between: where third-party spend is large enough to move the P&L, but the procurement team is not equipped to capture it in full.

€100M+
negotiated savings
50+
spend categories
Signed off by client CFOs
across €1.5 billion of spend
First-hand experience of Ordito's founding team.
The opportunity

Half your cost base is negotiated by a handful of people under constant time pressure.

Third-party spend is the largest cost bucket in a manufacturing business, typically around 40 to 60% of total cost. It is also the one with the least dedicated capacity behind it. A small procurement team negotiates against the clock, and rarely gets the time to rebuild a category from the specification upward. Recognize any of these?

Limited spend transparency

Incomplete visibility into what is bought, from whom, at what price, and under which terms

Non-managed spend

A sizable share of spend is not actively managed by procurement or the business

Supplier dependency

Long-standing relationships are rarely challenged, even when cost, service, or innovation opportunities exist

Specification lock-in

Materials and services purchased "as always," without challenging specification or demand

Operational focus

Procurement spends too much time on day-to-day firefighting and transactional support

Insufficient stakeholder engagement

Stakeholders hesitant to qualify new suppliers or change ways of working

Weak contract discipline

Limited linkage between supplier contracts, customer contracts, and market dynamics

Savings value leakage

Savings lost through unclear ownership, limited tracking, and lack of accountability

Why Ordito

Time spent where it changes the outcome.

Ordito was founded on a simple observation: most of a sourcing program is preparation, and the strategic decisions that deliver real value get only the time that is left. We built the tooling to reverse that.

01

Tooling for manual work, time for decisions

Spend data usable in days. A category cycle in twelve to sixteen weeks.

We learned strategic sourcing at Kearney, the leading global firm in procurement strategy, and we know where the weeks go: cleaning spend data, chasing contracts and specifications, building baselines. Our tooling absorbs that work, so the program's time goes to the calls that decide the outcome.

02

Hands-on, alongside your team

We drive the process. Your people learn by doing.

Your buyers sit in the negotiations. Your engineers are in the specification challenge. Your business owners sign the awarding scenario. We drive the process and carry the execution work while your people learn by doing. What we leave behind is a capable team and improved processes, not a generic platform you have to license.

03

Proven value, signed off by client CFOs

€100M+ negotiated, across €1.5Bn of spend and 50+ categories

Our founding team's experience covers more than €100 million in negotiated savings, across €1.5 billion of spend and more than 50 categories. Where it fits the engagement, we are open to linking our fee to the savings we negotiate.

Our services

We deliver measurable procurement savings and the solutions to sustain them.

Most engagements start with the sourcing program. The solutions keep the results in place once the program closes.

Deliver savings

Strategic sourcing programs

Negotiated hands-on, with your buyers and business owners

Map and harmonize spend data and supplier base across your units, and identify the most impactful value levers

Challenge business requirements, demand patterns and specifications with cross-functional stakeholders

Run strategic sourcing and negotiation events, and prepare decision-ready awarding and implementation

Sustain savings

Procurement solutions

Our proprietary tooling, set up around your data

Centralize and clearly visualize spend, contract and product specification data in one place

Track contract compliance, price changes and savings realization, and identify value leakage

Provide management reporting to sustain procurement impact beyond the program

Our approach

We confirm the scope and the savings range before you commit.

The first two weeks we focus on harmonizing your spend data, reviewing the key supplier contracts and speaking to the business owners. You receive a quantified savings range per category and a plan to execute it. Then you decide.

0

Confirm scope & savings range

  • Collect data
  • Mobilize stakeholders
  • Prioritize value levers
  • Ensure execution readiness
Go / No-Go Decision
to proceed with the execution phase
1

Assess spend categories

  • Develop baseline
  • Analyze supplier contracts & performance
  • Understand business requirements & constraints
2

Evaluate market dynamics

  • Assess market landscape & supplier options
  • Evaluate supply dynamics and market opportunities
Sourcing Launch
to validate the sourcing strategy & approach
3

Engage suppliers & negotiate

  • Launch RFP and negotiate
  • Detail internal optimization levers
  • Develop awarding scenarios & implementation plan
Awarding Decision
to sign off the awarding & implementation plan
Where we deliver value

First-hand experience across a broad range of manufacturing companies and spend categories.

Selected industries

Food and beverage Chemicals and specialty chemicals Consumer goods and beauty Industrial packaging Industrial manufacturing Piping and infrastructure

Selected spend categories

Chemicals Raw materials Packaging Logistics Metals Resins Bought-in finished goods Contract manufacturing Commodities

Typical outcome

More than €100 million in negotiated savings across €1.5 billion of spend. Typically 6-12% savings in each category we take on.

Detailed value cases, with the levers used and the results achieved, are shared in a first conversation.

Who we are

A new firm. A strong track record.

Ordito was founded in Brussels in 2026. The firm is new; the work behind it is not. A focused 30-minute conversation is enough to tell whether there is a material, actionable opportunity in your third-party spend.

Cedrick Veryser, co-founder of Ordito

Cedrick Veryser

Co-founder · Brussels · NL / EN

Seven years at Kearney, most recently as Principal in the Brussels office, leading procurement and value creation programs for industrial and consumer goods clients across Europe. Deep category experience in chemicals, raw materials, packaging and commodities. PhD in Chemistry from KU Leuven, which gives Ordito real technical depth when challenging specifications and material choices.

cedrick.veryser@ordito.eu +32 495 61 66 74 LinkedIn
Patrick Verheyden, co-founder of Ordito

Patrick Verheyden

Co-founder · Brussels · FR / EN

Patrick builds the proprietary tooling behind our delivery model and drives Ordito's AI enablement. As a consultant at Kearney, he worked with industrial and food manufacturers across Europe and the Americas, sourcing logistics, raw materials and indirect spend categories. Before that, Patrick worked in venture capital and corporate development at Pernod Ricard in San Francisco and Paris.

patrick.verheyden@ordito.eu +32 470 10 18 84 LinkedIn