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Strategic Sourcing & Cost Optimization
Sharper category and supplier strategies.
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Procurement Strategy That Moves the P&L
Turn third-party spend into measurable business value.
SourceWise Solutions helps growing businesses, middle-market companies, PE-backed organizations, and companies in transition reduce costs, strengthen supplier performance, optimize technology spend, and build procurement capabilities that support profitable growth.
Get senior-level procurement expertise without adding permanent executive overhead.
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The business case
Procurement Problems Become Business Problems
When procurement lacks strategy, visibility, or leverage, the impact reaches well beyond purchasing. Organizations often experience:
- Rising supplier and operating costs
- Fragmented vendor portfolios
- Uncontrolled technology and SaaS spending
- Weak negotiating leverage
- Contracts that no longer reflect the business
- Limited visibility into third-party spend
- Inconsistent supplier performance
- Manual, inefficient procurement processes
- Procurement resource gaps
- M&A and transition complexity
- Pressure to improve margins and EBITDA
SourceWise identifies where value is being lost—and builds a practical strategy to capture it.
The diagnostic lens
Spend Visibility Is Only the Beginning
Where is the commercial opportunity hiding in your third-party spend?
SourceWise analyzes third-party spend through several lenses to determine where procurement can create financial and operational value.
Illustrative example
Spend Profile
- Technology & SaaS31%
- Professional Services24%
- Operations18%
- HR & Benefits12%
- Marketing9%
- Other6%
Illustrative example
Opportunity Assessment
| Category | Opportunity | Primary driver |
|---|---|---|
| Technology & SaaS | High | Renewal leverage + utilization |
| Professional Services | High | Fragmentation + rate variance |
| Operations | Medium | Supplier concentration |
| HR & Benefits | Low / Medium | Limited near-term leverage |
High spend does not automatically mean high opportunity. Each category is assessed on leverage, not size.
$100M in Spend ≠ $100M in Opportunity
SourceWise identifies the addressable value pool—at any size of spend.
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Spend Concentration
Where is spend concentrated across suppliers and categories?
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Supplier Leverage
Where can competition, consolidation, or negotiation improve pricing, terms, and supplier performance?
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Contract Position
Where are pricing, terms, renewals, commitments, or protections no longer aligned with the business?
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Demand & Utilization
Where is the organization buying more than it needs, paying for unused capacity, or allowing demand to grow without a clear check on need?
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Supplier Dependency & Risk
Where does concentration create operational, financial, or negotiating risk?
The objective is not to reduce every dollar of spend. It is to identify the areas where action can create the greatest business impact.
SourceWise converts spend data into a prioritized opportunity map: what to address, why it matters, the potential business impact, and what should happen first.
A common starting point
Procurement Performance Diagnostic
A common starting point—not a required one. Each execution capability below can stand alone or follow a broader Procurement Performance Diagnostic.
A focused review of third-party spend, suppliers, contracts, technology, and procurement operations—identifying where the greatest financial and operational impact sits, and which opportunities to act on first.
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Diagnose
Evaluate spend, suppliers, contracts, demand, technology, and procurement operations.
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Prioritize
Rank opportunities by impact, feasibility, and speed to value.
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Execute
Apply the right capability to the opportunities that matter most.
What SourceWise does
Execution Capabilities
Senior expertise without the consulting-firm layers. You work directly with Regina Council on assessment, analysis, category and sourcing strategy, supplier negotiations, and executive recommendations. Each capability can stand alone or follow a broader Procurement Performance Diagnostic.
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Technology & SaaS Optimization
Rationalize software spend, renewals, and utilization.
Optimize Technology Spend04
Procurement Transformation & AI Enablement
Build a procurement function fit for how the business runs today.
Explore Procurement Transformation05
M&A, Integration & TSA Procurement Advisory
Manage supplier and contract complexity through transactions.
Discuss an M&A Procurement Need06
Executive Procurement Advisory
Senior procurement expertise on demand—without adding permanent overhead.
Discuss Executive Advisory SupportHow to engage SourceWise
Flexible Engagements. Defined Outcomes.
Engagements are scoped to the problem—not to a fixed retainer or headcount. Each model is priced with clear deliverables and defined outcomes.
Diagnostic Engagement
Identify and prioritize commercial opportunities, risks, and procurement gaps.
Fixed-Fee Project
Address a defined sourcing, supplier, technology, negotiation, or commercial challenge.
Transformation Program
Execute multiple initiatives or build procurement capabilities.
Executive Advisory Retainer
Provide ongoing senior procurement guidance to leadership.
Fractional Procurement Leadership
Provide embedded senior procurement leadership without requiring a permanent executive hire.
Who I work with
Where SourceWise Focuses
Growing Businesses, $5M–$50M Revenue
Owner- and founder-led companies whose supplier spend, contracts, and software costs have grown faster than anyone has had time to manage them. Engagements typically begin with largest suppliers, upcoming renewals, and technology spend.
Private Equity & PE-Backed Companies
Procurement is often one of the fastest pathways to EBITDA improvement in a portfolio. SourceWise works with portfolio company leadership and PE operating teams on sourcing opportunities, supplier consolidation, technology optimization, and procurement resource gaps.
Middle-Market Companies
Companies from roughly $50M in revenue upward that need enterprise-level sourcing discipline at their current size—better visibility, stronger negotiating position, and cleaner controls across third-party spend.
Representative experience
Complex Procurement Work Regina Has Led
The same negotiation rigor and sourcing judgment used in complex enterprise environments can be applied selectively to growing companies—without requiring them to build a large procurement organization.
Global MSP Transformation
Led category strategy, commercial negotiations, supplier engagement, implementation planning, and program management for implementation of a global Managed Service Provider model supporting contingent workforce operations.
Consulting & Staffing Commercial Strategy
Led rate-card and commercial renegotiations involving Big Four consulting firms and strategic staffing suppliers, including rate analysis, benchmarking, pricing structure review, and negotiation strategy.
Enterprise Telehealth Provider RFP
Led a competitive sourcing process for telehealth providers, including business requirements, RFP development, supplier evaluation, commercial analysis, negotiations, stakeholder alignment, and final recommendation.
Corporate Separation & TSA Exit
Led procurement, contracting, supplier-transition, and commercial activities supporting a complex corporate separation and transition-services exit involving critical third-party supplier relationships.
These engagements represent the type of complex sourcing, supplier, and commercial challenges Regina has led throughout her career. Client and company details are withheld where necessary to protect confidentiality.
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Facing a similar challenge?
Bring Senior Procurement Judgment Into the Room.
SourceWise works with leadership teams on defined procurement challenges where senior commercial judgment, strategic sourcing expertise, and hands-on execution matter.
Let’s find the opportunity
Your Supplier Spend Should Be Creating More Value.
Whether you are facing margin pressure, supplier complexity, uncontrolled technology costs, procurement resource gaps, or a major business transition, SourceWise can help identify where procurement will make the greatest difference.
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