Straight answers, before
you ever talk to us.

We help organizations reduce indirect expenses — the freight, telecom, packaging, facilities, MRO, and dozens of other categories that support the business without being the business. We identify where you’re overpaying, negotiate and implement better arrangements, and then verify the savings every month so they reach the bottom line and stay there.

In short: we improve EBITDA by lowering the costs your team doesn’t have time to manage closely.

A group purchasing organization hands you a catalog of pre-negotiated rates and hopes they fit. A typical consultant delivers a report and leaves. We do neither.

We analyze how you actually buy, negotiate specifically for your spend, implement the changes alongside your team, and audit the results month after month. The verification is the part most others skip — and it’s the part that keeps savings from quietly eroding.

Corporations and enterprises, private-equity-backed portfolio companies, manufacturers and distributors, multi-location and franchise operators, universities and institutions.

The common thread isn’t size or industry — it’s meaningful indirect spend spread across enough vendors, locations, and invoices that no one internally has time to manage every category deeply.

It depends on the type of work, and we’re transparent about it before anything starts:

Cost-reduction work is performance-based. Our fee is a percentage of the savings we actually implement, over a defined period. If we don’t find savings in a category, there’s no fee for that category.

Some categories cost you nothing. In certain categories, our supplier relationships cover our fee, so ACC earns nothing directly from you for that work.

Analytical work is a flat fee, scoped upfront. For ongoing data and analytics — dashboards, pricing-variance analysis, standing visibility into your own spend — the engagement is scoped and priced in advance, so you know exactly what it costs before it begins.

When an engagement ends, all savings stay with you.

Correct. A savings review is complimentary and carries no obligation. You share a spend file, we analyze it, and we show you where the opportunities are. You decide whether to move forward from there.

There’s no fee to look, and no requirement to switch vendors to find out what’s possible.

Often, no. Purchasing decisions are based on the best overall value to your company — price, service, and quality together. In many categories, your current suppliers keep the business at improved pricing.

When a change does make sense, we manage it; but vendor displacement is never the goal for its own sake.

Less than most people expect. We do the heavy lifting — the analysis, vendor outreach, benchmarking, and negotiation.

From your side, we’ll ask for contract and invoice data, short interviews with the people who own specific categories, and a review of our recommendations before anything moves forward. No internal project team required.

No. We’re there to reduce what you pay, not to change how you buy. Day-to-day purchasing continues to flow through the same departments and people it does today.

We may suggest ways to make purchasing more efficient, but those are recommendations — the decisions stay yours.

No. Price is one factor; service, quality, and reliability matter just as much. We expect prices to come down — but not at the expense of the things that make a supplier worth working with.

A cheaper vendor who can’t deliver isn’t savings; it’s a future problem.

We account for that. When we evaluate a category, the value of any special services is part of the comparison — not something we ignore to make a number look better.

The market is competitive, and we’ll help you see clearly whether that value is worth what you’re paying for it.

Every dollar traces back to a specific invoice, contract, or usage record. Our proprietary monthly audit compares what you’re actually billed against the pricing we negotiated — line by line, location by location — and catches billing errors, rate creep, and off-contract purchasing as they happen.

If we can’t measure it, we don’t count it.

Negotiated pricing has a way of drifting once the attention moves on — that’s exactly what the audit guards against, and why it runs for the term of the engagement, the period our performance-based fee is measured against.

When the term ends, many clients choose to keep that verification going as an ongoing analytical service, so the savings stay protected and the drift stays caught. Either way, you’ll always know where the audit stands and what it costs. Many clients also ask us to review additional categories over time.

It’s the analytical engine underneath everything we do — and, for clients who want it, a standalone service. We use SQL, Power BI, and AI to read across far more of your spend data than manual review ever could: surfacing pricing that’s drifted, the same material bought at different prices across locations, and categories that have grown without anyone deciding they should.

You can read more on our AI & Data Analytics page.

It starts with a short call — 15 or 30 minutes — and a spend file. We’ll walk through where savings may exist, what the engagement would require from your team, and how we verify the financial impact.

From there, a complimentary savings review gives you a clear, no-obligation picture of the opportunity.