AArete’s Managed Services offering is not simply an outsource decision, but rather an investment in operational efficiency and cost management. Our supply chain expertise, comprehensive sourcing toolsets, and powerful analytics bring immediate and long-term value to transform essential business process. Our customized flexible engagement models are designed to fit your specific needs and help scale your business.
Managed Services Featured Offerings
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Procurement
AArete has expertise leading outsourcing for procurement needs. AArete assumes responsibility for the sourcing and acquisition of supplies and services, fills capacity gaps and accelerates realization of cost savings, instilling processes, controls, and disciplines to ensure spend is aligned with business needs and costs are contained. AArete’s flexible solutions are designed to tackle your procurement operations, sourcing support, contract management, and strategic sourcing needs.
Spend Analysis
We provide detailed insight into what you are spending for supplies and services and opportunities for cost reduction. Our proprietary spend analytics platform consolidates multiple sources of spend data to provide rapid visibility across your organizational. From this visibility, AArete helps construct cost savings roadmaps to achieve both short- and long-term savings.
Category Management
AArete can supplement your team with strategic category or supplier expertise. We bring market leading perspectives ensuring capture of key value levers to ensure you receive advantageous cost and service commitments. Our team members bring market intelligence, industry best practices, and a best-in-class supplier management.
ESG Services & Strategy
At AArete, our core values mirror those of our clients. Reflected by our guiding principles of inclusion, sustainability, and stewardship, we bring leading practices to improve the use of diverse suppliers and sustainable “green” procurement practices. We can assist with the development of your sustainability strategy, management of sustainability initiatives, and production of sustainability reports, and can even help source and select a skilled Sustainability Officer on a temporary or permanent basis to best align with your business goals.
M&A Integration Support
Our hands-on approach delivers rapid realization of synergies between merging organizations and suppliers. We support pre-merger supply chain road-mapping and spend analysis through post-merger contracting and organization consolidation.
Tail Spend Management
Low-dollar purchase transactions (e.g. tail spend) rapidly add up, often representing 20 – 25% of total spend, but managing tail spend can be challenging due to its decentralized nature and high transaction volumes. AArete helps build strategies for effective tail spend management to enable improved contract negotiations, better pricing, and increased visibility into spending.
Procure-to-Pay Optimization
Optimize your procurement and accounts payable solution(s) through effective use of Procure-to-Pay (P2P) technologies. AArete ensures our clients have or are leveraging an optimal mix of technology solutions so that processes are, or can be designed to leverage automation in the most effective way.
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Our Managed Services Leaders
John Marchisin
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John Marchisin
John has over 30+ years of cross–industry consulting and operations improvement experience. He continues to provide profit improvement services to a range of companies including higher education, healthcare providers, healthcare payers, technology, retail, and other. His work includes strategic profitability improvement, revenue cycle improvements, gross margin improvements, process redesign, and technology implementation services. John has a particular focus on organizational change management supporting his clients in developing strategies for advancing their business to meet new business and regulatory challenges. He is a known innovator and driver of change that produces results by communicating to all levels of the organization. John has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Management Information Systems from Pace University, is a member of HFMA and is a published author in Managed Healthcare Executive, CFO and Financial Executives.
Tyler Higgins
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Tyler Higgins
Tyler has robust experience leading multi-year sourcing initiatives within Higher Education, Retail, Consumer Products, Transportation and Energy, achieving over $250M in strategic profitability improvement. He has over 10 years of sourcing experience and developing strategic solutions regarding innovation, automation, process improvements, and strategic programs integral in generating substantial strategic profitability improvement. He has completed projects in a multitude of sourcing categories including temporary labor, most facilities (material and services) areas, IT hardware and software, scientific supplies, supply chain/transportation, outsourcing and human resource benefits. Tyler holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a published author in Internet Retailer.