Supply Chain & Cost Leadership Consulting

Uncovering what matters.

We help energy, mining and utility businesses win — by identifying, capturing and protecting value across the supply chain. Lower cost of supply. Mitigated risk. Margins that hold.

Follow the Money → Our Methodology
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From insight to implementation
Who We Are

Practitioners who find the value others miss.

ValueFinder is a panel of multi-disciplinary practitioners — people who have led supply chains, negotiated the contracts and run the operations, not just advised on them.

Our "Follow the Money" methodology takes a 360° view of demand, scope, specification and rates to enhance margins, lower cost of supply, mitigate supply risks and strengthen your ESG posture.

  • Hands-on workshops, not slide decks
  • Value tactic sheets with named owners
  • Capability that stays after we leave
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ValueFinder practitioner reviewing plant operations In the field, not above it
Practice Areas

Get future-ready now — by assessing the key control points in your supply chain.

Three integrated practices, one goal: identifying, capturing and protecting value while helping your business win.

Heavy industry operations

Enhance Margins, Lower Cost of Supply

Enterprise supply chain strategy, category & strategic sourcing, capital projects contracting and "Follow the Money" cost leadership — with a Supply Chain 360° health-check deep dive.

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Team developing capability in a workshop

Develop Talent, Execute Brilliant Basics

"Learn by doing" masterclasses, business partnering for performance, negotiations & market intelligence, supplier and contract management, procurement excellence and resiliency.

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Engineer working with data and analytics

Harness Data, Generate Actionable Insights

AI-powered analytics, master-data lifecycle management and enrichment, materials strategy aligned to reliability strategy, plus commercial compliance and forensic analysis.

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What We Do

Consulting that shows up in your free cash flow.

Every engagement is built from these capabilities — combined to fit your asset, your contracts and your ambition.

Supply Chain 360° Health Check

A deep-dive diagnostic of demand, scope, specification and rates — your gap to potential, quantified.

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Strategic Sourcing & Category Management

Multi-round competitive tenders, should-cost models and fact-based negotiations that move the rate sheet.

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Capital Projects Contracting

Contracting strategy for major projects and turnarounds — bundling, unbundling and EPC tactics that fit risk appetite.

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Negotiation & Market Benchmarking

External benchmarks, market intelligence and deal-making support — so you stop leaving money on the table.

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Vendor Development & Local Content

Building supplier ecosystems and local capability — trials, training and technical approvals that de-risk change.

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AI-Powered Spend & Data Analytics

Master-data enrichment, commercial compliance and forensic analysis — a single source of truth that works for you.

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"Follow the Money"

From first interview to captured value — in weeks, not quarters.

A disciplined sprint that "trues up" your baseline across cost, demand, supply and scope profiles, then matures opportunities into delivered cost take-out and free cash flow.

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  1. Weeks 1–3

    True-Up Baseline Assessment

    Focused interviews and desktop review across strategy, contracts, spend profile, planning and benchmarks — building the value hypothesis.

  2. Weeks 2–4

    Hands-On Mini Workshops

    Working sessions with your teams pressure-test the levers — technical, commercial and performance — and mature the solutions.

  3. Weeks 4–8

    Implement & Mature Solutions

    Trials, tenders and negotiations executed; value cadence and KPIs installed so cost take-out shows up in free cash flow — and stays there.

Not sure where to start? Begin with a Supply Chain 360° Health Check.

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Where We Work

Deep roots in the industries where value is hardest won.

Upstream
Unconventionals
LNG
Pipelines
Downstream
Mining
Utilities
"Proactive management of demand, scope, specification and rates leads to a lower cost profile — and keeps it there."
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Case Studies

Value, made visible.

Offshore asset maintenance
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in annualized base savings identified per year — with a multiple of that in stretch potential.

Fabric Maintenance · Offshore Energy*

Re-engineering a US$10M maintenance contract from the inside out.

An aging asset, a time-and-materials contract, rates above market benchmarks and calendar-based scoping. ValueFinder benchmarked crafts across suppliers, introduced alternate coating and access technologies, restructured the commercial construct and ran a multi-round competitive tender.

Demand & ScopeBenchmarkingTechnology LeversCompetitive Tender
See How We Did It

*Indicative example, anonymized. Figures illustrative of typical engagement outcomes.

What Leaders Say

Trusted in the room where value is decided.

They didn't hand us a report — they sat with our maintenance and procurement teams until the savings showed up in the ledger.
VP OperationsNational Energy Operator
The "Follow the Money" sprint paid for itself before the workshops were even finished. The value cadence keeps paying.
Chief Procurement OfficerGlobal LNG Producer
Rare to find advisors who have actually run contracts this size. They speak operator, not consultant.
Managing DirectorMining & Utilities Group

Trusted by operators & leaders across the value chain

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How much value is hiding in your supply chain?

A 30-minute conversation is usually enough to spot the first opportunities. No decks, no jargon — just practitioners talking about your business.

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