The Challenge Procure4 were introduced to Debenhams in the Autumn of 2007 with the brief to: Review spend for Goods and Services not for Resale (G&SnfR) Build a robust view of cost reducing opportunities Deliver >10% savings across the identified addressable spend The Approach The scope of the opportunity was in excess of £400m of G&SnfR spend. This covered areas such as logistics, store development, store operations, food service, marketing, consumable, travel & expenses and print. This review and benchmarking took 8 weeks and resulted in the identification of ca£200m of addressable spend. The first phase of the project was to address £40m of spend across G&SnfR, catering and building services. Following a further detailed scoping phase, base-lines were created and the delivery project c

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