Strategic Sourcing Projects
Move an important sourcing priority from open issue to landed result.
Hands-on support for a defined category, contract, supplier decision, or negotiation when the work matters but internal capacity is limited.
The economics of execution
Negotiated value only matters when it reaches the P&L.
A sourcing project is not finished at the supplier meeting. Rooney Advisors carries the work through normalized offers, negotiation, the commercial decision, contract alignment, transition, and the controls needed to capture the result.
When project support fits
The business knows what needs to move. It needs someone to own the work.
- A major agreement is approaching renewal or repricing
- Management wants competitive tension before making a supplier decision
- A category is fragmented across too many vendors, terms, or specifications
- The internal team needs additional capacity for a time-sensitive initiative
- A difficult negotiation requires stronger preparation, structure, and leverage
What Rooney Advisors can own
Focused execution around the commercial decision.
Projects are built around the business requirement and financial outcome, not a ceremonial sourcing process.
Competitive sourcing
Market strategy, supplier identification, bid structure, evaluation, negotiation, and award recommendation.
Supplier negotiations
Fact base, leverage plan, negotiation strategy, commercial positions, and decision support.
Vendor consolidation
Demand analysis, supplier rationalization, bundled economics, transition risk, and implementation plan.
Contract and renewal support
Pricing, payment, service, liability, renewal, rebate, and performance terms coordinated with legal counsel.
How the work moves
Enough structure to be defensible. Enough pace to matter.
The project plan is tailored to the decision, but the logic remains consistent from requirement through implementation.
Define the requirement
Clarify demand, specifications, stakeholders, decision rights, constraints, and the baseline economics.
Build leverage
Understand the supply market, credible alternatives, cost drivers, supplier positions, and negotiation range.
Run the process
Engage suppliers, normalize offers, pressure-test assumptions, negotiate, and document the decision.
Secure the result
Align the contract, transition, operating controls, owners, and measurement needed to capture value.
Representative project areas
Supplier decisions across the operating cost base.
Rooney Advisors works across industries and categories, bringing a disciplined commercial approach while relying on internal subject-matter experts for the business requirement.
Direct materials and packaging
Pricing, indexation, specifications, minimums, lead times, inventory, and supplier concentration.
Freight and logistics
Modes, lanes, accessorials, service requirements, fuel, network design, and carrier terms.
Facilities, MRO, and operations
Fragmented vendors, service scope, response requirements, consumables, and site-level buying.
Technology and business services
Licensing, usage, rate structures, statements of work, renewals, and commercial protections.
Commercial structure: a fixed project fee or defined project phases, agreed before work begins.
Start with the business need