London · Commodity Procurement
The commodities you need, sourced properly
We are the procurement team for companies across the UK and EU that need materials found, checked and delivered without surprises. We act for you, and only for you.
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What we do
The procurement team you do not have to hire
We handle the whole thing. Finding suppliers, checking they are legitimate, agreeing the price, drawing up the contract, booking the freight and making sure what arrives is what you signed for.
Most of our clients have no procurement department. The rest have one that is already stretched thin.
What we source
Three areas, one way of working
Each vertical has its own rules, its own supplier base and its own paperwork. How we work through them does not change.
How we work
What we actually do for you
Getting the right material at the right price, with paperwork that holds up and a delivery date that sticks. Here is what that involves.
We start with the specification
Before we approach anyone, we sit down with you and pin down exactly what you need. Grade, quality standards, volume, delivery terms, certification. Vague briefs are how people end up with material they cannot use, and it is much cheaper to be precise at this stage than to argue about it later.
We check who we are dealing with
Every supplier goes through KYC and KYB screening before we engage them. Legal standing, export licences, sanctions screening, whatever the commodity specifically requires. Suppliers who fail are dropped before they ever reach your contract.
We benchmark the price properly
We take the price to at least three qualified suppliers before we start negotiating. You see the comparison and the reasoning behind the number we recommend. We hold no interest in which supplier wins, so there is nothing pulling that recommendation sideways.
We write the contract carefully
Letter of Credit structuring, Incoterms, quality tolerances, what happens if the cargo falls short. The clauses nobody reads are exactly the ones that matter when something goes wrong.
We plan the route
Freight routing, container use, which port, how customs will handle it. Small decisions here change your landed cost and your delivery date more than most people expect.
We watch it all the way in
Once the cargo moves we track it from origin to your door. Independent inspection before loading, freight tracking, customs updates, and a written report when it lands.
Where we are
London, and on the end of the phone
Being in London is not the point on its own. What matters is that when a cargo is held at a border, or an inspection comes back wrong, there is someone here who picks up and sorts it rather than forwarding your email on.
Getting started
From first message to delivered goods
Three stages. You keep the decisions, we carry the work.
Tell us what you need
Send the specification, volume, where it needs to land and by when. We will tell you within one working day whether we can do it and how we would go about it. If we cannot, we will say so.
We do the work
Sourcing, supplier checks, negotiation, contracts, documents, freight, inspection. You approve the decisions that matter and we carry everything else.
The goods arrive
We track the shipment the whole way. When it lands you get the full document pack, the inspection certificate and a straight account of how it went.
Who we work with
Two kinds of client, one standard
The problems look very different. What we do about them does not.
Established operations
Manufacturers, refiners, wholesalers, distributors and government-linked procurement teams. Usually buying at scale, usually under real compliance pressure, and usually tired of chasing four different parties when something slips.
Learn moreGrowing brands
Founder-led food, drinks and cosmetics companies whose volumes have outgrown the way they used to buy. You get the same process and the same paperwork as our largest clients, at the volumes you actually order.
Learn moreStandards
The standards we work to, on every job
Next step
Tell us what you are looking for
Send us the commodity, the volume and where it needs to go. We will come back with how we would approach it, what paperwork it needs and roughly how long it will take.