HPS Holding helps American manufacturers, distributors and healthcare groups take control of what they buy and how it moves. No dashboards you never open. Just cleaner supplier data, tighter contracts, and freight that arrives when the schedule says it will.
Category experience across the mid-market
They are visibility problems. A purchasing team of three people is managing four hundred suppliers on spreadsheets that were last reconciled in the spring. Nobody knows which contracts auto-renewed. Two plants buy the same resin at two different prices from the same distributor.
That is the situation we walk into most weeks, and it is fixable. We start with the data you already have, clean it, and show you where the money actually goes. Only then do we talk about negotiation.
You get one engagement lead who stays with you from the first data pull to the last supplier review. The practices below overlap on purpose — procurement decisions and freight decisions are the same decision.
Spend analysis, category strategy, RFI/RFP management, structured negotiation and contract award. We run the process end to end and hand you a signed agreement with the terms written down in plain English.
Typical outcome: 8–19% reduction in addressable category spend in year one.
Vendor onboarding, W-9 and insurance verification, scorecards, quarterly business reviews, corrective action tracking and risk monitoring for single-source dependencies.
Typical outcome: supplier master reduced by a third, on-time delivery up double digits.
Carrier selection, rate benchmarking, inbound routing guides, drayage and LTL consolidation, customs documentation review and claims handling with your 3PL partners.
Typical outcome: 11–22% lower landed cost per unit on high-volume lanes.
Reorder-point modelling, safety-stock sizing, slow-mover liquidation, ABC segmentation and a planning cadence your team can actually run after we leave.
Typical outcome: working capital released without service-level loss.
No engagement begins with a twelve-month contract. It begins with two weeks and a written findings pack you own outright, whether or not you continue with us.
We talk through your categories, volumes, systems and the three things that annoy you most. If we are not the right firm, we say so and usually name someone who is.
We pull twelve to twenty-four months of purchase history, normalise the vendor names, map the categories and interview your buyers and plant managers.
A written pack: baseline spend, leakage found, prioritised opportunities with effort/impact scoring, and a realistic timeline. Presented in person or over Teams.
We run the sourcing events, sit in the negotiations, redline the contracts with your counsel and stand up the supplier scorecards. Weekly written status, monthly steering call.
Playbooks, templates and training for your team, plus a twelve-month savings ledger reconciled against your general ledger — not against our own estimates.
Spreadsheets tell you what was bought. Standing on a receiving dock at 6:40 in the morning tells you why the wrong pallet keeps showing up. Our consultants spend real time in your facilities — walking the racks, watching the receiving process, talking to the people who sign for the freight.
It is slower than a remote-only engagement. It is also the reason our recommendations survive contact with the operation.
Every recommendation traces back to a source document you can open.
Mutual NDA signed before any data leaves your systems.
“They found $410,000 of duplicate freight accessorials in our first quarter together. We had been paying them for six years and our own AP team had signed off every invoice.”
“What I appreciated was the honesty. Two of the categories they reviewed were already well managed and they told us to leave them alone rather than invent work.”
“Our supplier list went from 612 vendors to 388 without a single line stoppage. The transition plan was genuinely thorough.”
A longer list lives on our FAQ page, including questions about fees, contracts and data handling.
No. We are paid only by our clients, on fixed fees or a retainer. We do not accept rebates, referral payments or marketing allowances from any vendor. This is written into our standard engagement letter.
Below roughly $4M of annual addressable spend the fees rarely pay for themselves, and we will tell you that on the first call rather than after the invoice.
Almost never. We work alongside your buyers and hand the process back. A handful of clients use us for interim coverage during a vacancy, but that is a separate arrangement.
It stays in the United States, is encrypted at rest, is accessible only to the consultants on your account, and is returned or destroyed within 60 days of engagement close. Details are in our Privacy Policy.
Send us a short brief — the categories you buy, the volumes and the pain points. Within two business days you will get a written response from a senior consultant, not a sales script.
