Unlocking Margin through Procurement
We help businesses improve margins through proprietary benchmarks, direct sourcing and enhanced procurement capability
Where Procurement Drives Margin Improvement
As businesses grow, they gain scale, buying power and opportunities to operate more efficiently. Yet too often, their procurement capability fails to keep pace.
What works for smaller businesses becomes increasingly complex as operations expand. Fragmented buying behaviours, limited coordination and lack of capability quietly erodes margins.
Argillan closes that gap.
We help ambitious businesses turn their scale into competitive advantage, building the procurement capability, commercial discipline and supply chains needed to deliver sustained margin improvemen
Services
Margin Optimisation
We deliver a comprehensive margin optimisation program, in a way that supports a client's business ambition
Compliance and Risk
We enable organisations to manage and mitigate risks in their supply chain, maintaining a clear audit trail
Capability Enhancement
We enable our clients to build and maintain the procurement capability and capability required to maintain margin advantage
Rapid Support
We support our clients where they need urgent support, particularly for key commercial conversations or sustained project support
Experienced In House Leaders
Our experience comes from leading procurement and supply-chain functions within the industries we support.
We have carried responsibility for commercial decisions, implementation and results—not merely advised from outside
Why Argillan
Argillan provides services through five unique pillars
Proprietary Cost Intelligence
Our benchmarks, should-cost models and category intelligence reveal what core products should cost.
This gives clients an independent fact base to identify opportunities, challenge existing arrangements and make better commercial decisions
Built around your Business
We do not impose a standard procurement model or pursue savings in isolation.
Every solution is designed around the client’s strategy, customers and operating reality, preserving flexibility and differentiation where they matter.
Direct Sourcing Across Asia
Our direct-sourcing capability provides access to credible manufacturers and supply markets across Asia.
We assess specification, cost, quality, logistics and risk to determine where international sourcing creates genuine commercial advantage.
Delivered and Embedded
We work alongside client teams through sourcing, implementation and supplier transition.
We then embed the tools, processes and capability required to sustain the improvements and continue building upon them after our engagement ends.
Industries we Serve
We work only in industries where our procurement and supply-chain knowledge is genuinely market-leading.
This focus enables us to offer more relevant benchmarks, stronger sourcing capability and project delivery grounded in the commercial and operational realities of each sector
Construction
We help contractors convert growth into buying power. By coordinating demand across projects, benchmarking core expenditure and accessing alternative suppliers, we improve margin without imposing a volume-housebuilder model on businesses built to deliver bespoke work.
Building Materials
We help manufacturers and distributors challenge the cost of raw materials, bought-in products and supporting supply chains. Our cost intelligence and direct-sourcing capability expand the available supply market while protecting product quality, reliability and performance.
Hotels & Hospitality
We help owners and operators use their collective scale without eroding the individuality of their hotels. We benchmark core expenditure, coordinate common requirements and strengthen supplier arrangements to improve EBITDA while respecting each brand, property and guest proposition.