Ardaber: Procurement & Sourcing

About Ardaber
Ardaber relieves organizations at operational, tactical, and strategic purchasing levels. Our clients have a temporary need for an extra pair of hands and expertise in the field of direct and indirect goods and services. Ardaber also assists its clients with the functional implementation of purchasing-related software (ERP, Purchase-to-Pay) systems.
Our goal is to achieve sales and profit targets while at the same time working more efficiently and trying to keep the total costs as minimal as possible.

Our services
  • Analyzing, cleaning, and setting up a contract, category, and supplier management;
  • Analyze and set up specific savings projects;
  • Set up sourcing processes for both trade and non-trade related goods and services;
  • Analyzing opportunities, possibilities, and threats within the organization in the field of purchasing related products and services;
  • Functional implementation of purchasing related software systems;
  • Develop and provide training to users of purchasing systems.

​Target audience and main goals
Ardaber mainly focuses on organizations that have a temporary need for an extra pair of hands in the field of direct and indirect goods and services. The focus and specialty lie within the tactical purchasing domain in international private work environments. As a procurement & sourcing service bureau, Ardaber is averse to a theoretical procurement approach but uses his knowledge and skills practically and pragmatically. We go for results!

Fields of expertise
Ardaber has over 22 years of experience in purchasing and supply chain activities at both the National and International level. We worked successfully at various organizations to achieve their objectives and expectations. The assignments that Ardaber carries out for its National and International clients are very diverse.

We mainly focus on the following products and services:
IT, Electronics, Pharma, Facilities & Hospitality Services, Construction, MRO, Logistics, ERP/P2P systems, Merchandise, Raw materials and Consumables, Interior, Import and Export. Ardaber supports companies with significant savings and process improvement in these work fields.

Ardaber carries out these activities in the following sectors:
Maritime, Multinationals, SME, Logistics, Agriculture, Innovative and Sustainable Start, and Scale-Ups, Business-to-Business, Business-to-Consumer, Service and Manufacturing Industry.

Experience
Before Ardaber, Niels Grove worked in various purchasing roles at various internationally oriented companies for more than 16 years. He founded Ardaber at the end of 2015, as a procurement consultancy.
Being able to assist many organizations as purchasing professionals in meeting their temporary needs is one of the major advantages of a self-employed person. The diversity and versatility of assignments, organizations, and people is what makes working in an organisation such as this, so much fun. Sometimes it is a temporary replacement due to illness or otherwise; these are often roles that require immediate involvement in the client's current purchasing process. At other times it is an assignment to understand purchasing processes and to write a change and/or improvement plan from there. All in all, very diverse assignments within the entire purchasing spectrum.
The challenge lies mainly in the diversity and unexpected events. Given that the culture and nature of the company are different and as a knowledge specialist it's always a challenge to help the client, and its people, and to work with them to jointly achieve the goal.
More information?
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Niels Grove