Jersey Electricity needed help to launch a full review of the procurement function, starting from scoping, discovery, planning and implementation for:
Jersey Electricity needed help to launch a full review of the procurement function, starting from scoping, discovery, planning and implementation for:
Barkers started category councils and reviewed tendering and negotiations practices, delivering £750k savings in the first year. At the same time, processes were defined better and implemented across the organisation.
Jersey Electricity operates in a very isolated environment with a uniquely challenging economic environment. There is a massive restraint on resources, restrictions on the available service providers, logistic complications for the supply chain, and legal regulations that are different from any other jurisdiction.
Jersey island has very challenging targets to become fully Zero-carbon by 2050. This ambitious target means that Jersey electricity needs to make quite a large scale improvement in a very short time with minimal resources. The changes that Barkers were helping with included:
Most of the initiatives meant, first of all, a change in the mindset of all of the stakeholders.
To achieve Jersey Electricity’s objectives, Barkers provided a senior procurement and commercial consultant experienced in various procurement and commercial aspects as well as communications and stakeholder management. The amount of support was increased over time based on the business readiness and need for the change.
Barkers applied various methodologies to achieve the outcomes:
All initiatives started with the “as-is” analysis and best practice modelling, followed by the gap and stakeholder impact analysis. Barkers drafted implementation plans, basing everything around the stakeholder and change management.
One of the critical overarching deliverables was the start of the cultural change within the company. Teaching the company to embrace the change, encouraging the approach of not being happy with “we have always done it that way.” This was achieved by leading by example: taking on projects that were slightly more than the initial scope, showing the different ways of approaching questions by dealing with them one by one.
The team was reorganised and positioned into sustainable long-term roles to be able to deliver maximum value.
The systems were implemented, and process controls were put in place to secure the achieved changes.
Throughout the process, Barkers remained focused on the importance of the project timeline whilst achieving an excellent commercial outcome.
Barkers achieved the following results:
What was it about Barkers that particularly impressed you?
“Barkers approach to our challenge delivery impressed me.
Jersey Electricity faces a lot of different challenges, and therefore it is tough to find the right people – especially people that would fit our requirements. Being a small and strongly diversified business in a geographically isolated environment, we needed a versatile specialist to come in and advise on multiple different topics. Barkers delivered just that. The consultant working with us was not only strong in the primary field of expertise (Procurement) but could as firmly ask challenging questions to technical people.
Working in this way allowed Barkers to expand the primary scope and Jersey Electricity to receive valuable support.”
Mark Preece, Operations Director, Jersey Electricity
Barkers: Jersey Electricity Case Study