Charles Eddolls provides consulting services to help organizations reduce costs through competitive bidding processes and supply chain optimization. He has worked with both public and private sector clients, helping them save over 30% on average through reverse auctions and strategic sourcing. Some of his past clients include the Ministry of Defence, NHS organizations, local councils, and private companies. He has a track record of delivering substantial savings, such as reducing costs by over £100 million for a single client.

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Charles Eddolls - Consulting
From CDM to Cost Reduction
Hands on support with a pragmatic approach
Competitions averaged savings of over 30%
Reducing Costs Not QualityNovember 2015

2. Lower Costs with Increased ProfitsNovember 2015
• Help increase your profit opportunities
• Experience that can solve operational problems
• History shows ongoing supply relationships to be excellent
• Working in partnership with your staff
• Knowledge from reverse auctions and recycling through to purchasing
• Your information always treated in confidence
A broad range of support
November 2015

3. Lower Costs with Increased ProfitsNovember 2015
Increase your profits with an experts advice
• Produced hundreds of millions of pounds worth of savings
• Reduced costs by over £100 million in a single competition
• Undertaken a £2 Billion supply tender / auction
• Developed a world leading purchasing procedure
• Introduced reverse auctions to HM Treasury saving them
66% in their first auction with an 80% betterment!
• Supplied innovative recommendations
“An Auction in Progress”
Structured reverse auctions from warship refits to
International logistics and:

4. Lower Costs with Increased ProfitsNovember 2015
Undertook reverse auctions for:
• The Ministry of Defence
• OGCbuying.solutions
• The Office of Government Commerce
• Birmingham City Council
• Tameside
• The UK Hydrographic Office
• Oldham Council
• Cheltenham Council
• The Gloucester Purchasing Partnership
• Tube lines Ltd
• NHS Hammersmith,
• NHS The Royal Free,
• NHS Newham
• NHS Maidstone
• NHS Bath etc
Public sector Private sector
• Aramark
• Balfour Beatty
• BAX Global
• BMW
• Compass Group
• DBC
• European Metal Recycling
• Hellman Worldwide Logistics
• Holt JCB
• London Taxis
• Milklink
• Pall Corporation
• P&O
• Sims Group
• Thyssen Krupp Automotive etc

5. Lower Costs with Increased ProfitsNovember 2015
Some savings created
Air filters 36%
Aluminum Extrusion 12%
Architects services 14%
Audio & Video Cassettes 26%
Audio/Visual/installations 49%
Automotive Metalwork 20%
Bakery Ingredients 6%
BT Lines 20%
Building Surveyor 14%
Camp Beds 14%
Cameras 10%
Catering 18%
CCTV service contract 43%
Cheese 8%
Chilled/Frozen Goods 18%
Chocolate 7%
Civil and Structural 13%
Cleaning Cloths 54%
Clinical Consumables 18%
Coffee 17%
Commercial Tyres 10%
Compasses 27%
Computer Consumables 63%
Contrast Media 65%
Copier Paper 8%
Corrosion & Icing Inhibitor 5%
Courier parcel services 22%
Derv & Gas Oil exc duty 12%
Diving Apparel 63%
Domestic Couriers 23%
Domestic Linen 10%
Desk top stationary 46%
Electric Office Supplies 33%
Electricity 6%
European Freight 11%
Frigate Refit 21%
Frozen Veg 6%
Fuel DERV 5%
Fuel Gas Oil 5%
Fuel Kerosene 21%
Fuel Transportation 62%
Glasses 6%
Gloves and Linen 43%
Hand and Cutting Tools 39%
Hydraulic and Engine Oil 26%
Incontinence Products 30%
International Freight 32%
Landlines 19%
Lease 22%
Lifts maintenance 25%
Lorry Tyres & Services 11%
Mattresses 40%
Mech and Engineering 13%
Mobile Phone 17%
Mount 54%
Oils and Lubricants 37%
Operating Theatre Products 19%
Parts Haulage 31%
Plastic bins 26%
Pasta 36%
Plasma Torch Consumables 19%
Pocket Pack Tissues 62%
Postage 16%
Power Cables 26%
PPE 37%
Printer Consumables 40%
Printing 47%
Project Manager 16%
Quantity Surveyors 13%
Rehabilitation Consumable 19%
Risk and Value 13%
Rock Salt 24%
Shirts 47%
Specialist Batteries 5%
Stainless Steel Sheets 9%
Stationery 64%
Steel 15%
Steel Storage / Furniture 8%
Tarpaulins 27%
Temporary staff 16%
Thomas Bins 14%
Tissues 66%
Trailer 22%
Trailer Hire 16%
Urology Consumables 7%
Welding 45%
Wound Management 15%
“Explaining auctions to Sir Michael Lyons”

6. Lower Costs with Increased ProfitsNovember 2015
approach
supply
the
other
way
round…
Following the tender I agreed to :
• Buy at least 50 machines per year for five years
• An 85% buy back after year one
• Be paid for the buybacks as we paid for the new machines
• Pay for the machines against a one year promissory note
• Have the machines maintained by the supplier within the cost
The result was that:
• We always ran new machines (max twelve months old)
• We had no cost of maintenance
• Each machine cost 15% of the discounted new price each year
• We had total reliability and improved productivity at a low cost
• We had a nominal cash flow requirement
Think “Outside-of-the-Box” in supply contracts
At Coopers we needed over 50 new cranes so I tendered for long reach
machines with Ardennes grabs and wired for magnet use.

7. Lower Costs with Increased ProfitsNovember 2015
· My transport knowledge enabled me to advise a Blue Chip client to
stop its sub - contractors deliberately overloading vehicles. This
practice could have resulted in prosecution with a serious cost to the
client and an irreversible loss of reputation
· Commercial experience enabled me to remove historic “provision cost
inclusions” in contracts that amounted to £3 Million on each of up to
five separate contracts that were placed each and every year
· By structuring a tender and auctioning a supply contract I saved
London Taxi International over15% on their steel supply costs whilst
retaining the same provider
Find the solution

8. Lower Costs with Increased ProfitsNovember 2015
Loading the “Bella Mondo” with scrap metal
Let a specialist with a unique track record assist you and your team
Tel +44 (0) 1793 752 485
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How to contact me
Email me for free information:
charleseddolls@cygnetconsultancy.com
Charles Eddolls – Consulting