Case Study: a largest fast food chain provider achieves multimillion-dollar procurement savings with The Smart Cube

Helping a leading fast food chain address procurement execution challenges

The Smart Cube worked with a leading fast food chain provider, a global fast food outlet facing procurement execution challenges across its operations. With limited in-house time and expertise, plus the added complexity of multiple acquisitions, the customer needed stronger research support to improve stakeholder and supplier engagement, identify procurement synergies, and perform better against key targets.

The Smart Cube provided category intelligence and commodity intelligence as an extension of the client’s team, supporting end-to-end category management for direct categories through market tracking, supplier identification, e-tendering, price forecasting, should-cost modelling, and sourcing research. This helped the customer improve decision-making and execution, deliver cost savings across categories representing about 70% of total spend, and achieve multimillion-dollar annual savings over nine years, including a 10% saving in the beef category.