Best Practice Group plc

Best Practice Group plc is a consultancy made up of independent experts who help organisations get more from complex, strategic supplier relationships. Its work covers the whole life of a contract, from procurement and contracting through to fixing a partnership that has gone wrong or leaving one safely.

What Best Practice Group plc offers

• Procurement and contracting support: help setting up major supplier deals so they work from the start.
• Partnership improvement: reshaping existing contracts around clear business outcomes to encourage collaboration.
• Recovery of failing relationships: intervention when a strategic supplier arrangement has broken down.
• Exit and transition: managing an early exit from one supplier and the move to another.
• ERP project rescoping: guidance for ERP programmes on SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Workday, Microsoft Dynamics, Infor, NetSuite, IFS and Epicor, set out in a white paper.

Who it serves

The group covers relationships involving outsourcing, in-sourcing, shared services, complex cloud and IT systems, hard and soft facilities management, PFI and PPP schemes, waste, construction and infrastructure. Sectors named include police, fire and ambulance services, and financial and banking services.

Key facts

• Contract types: BPO, PFI, PPP, maintenance and repair operations, health and social care integration
• Associates: the firm recruits independent associates to its team