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Learning Success Stories

Pharmaceutical

Prior to its merger with Glaxo, SmithKline Beecham was one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical and healthcare companies. With 50,000 employees, 300 products and...... read more >>

Public Sector - Police

Following an efficiency and effectiveness review of procurement which identified a number of weaknesses and improvement opportunities, a transformation programme was launched to optimise...... read more >>

Mobile Telecoms

World-leading mobile phone producer Nokia selected ADR Learning to create a change programme to introduce an indirect sourcing process to a global purchasing team...... read more >>

Local Government

The Procurement Agency for Essex (PAE) is a regional collaborative procurement hub made up of 15 public sector organisations in the county.  ADR worked...... read more >>

Global Packaging Company

A large packaging company with locations in several countries had ambitious cost savings goals it wanted to meet with its current staff – which...... read more >>

Public Sector - Dorset County Council

How ADR Learning helped a large UK local authority improve its procurement teams skills Dorset County Council serves a population of 400,000 and covers a...... read more >>

Locks Manufacturer

This Swedish-headquartered lock-making business had acquired through acquisition many global lock and security device organisations globally. They were pursuing a strategy of outsourcing and...... read more >>

Healthcare

18 months into a 3 year term, the hub selected ADR to help them to determine the future responsibility, authority, accountability, scope of service...... read more >>

Finance Solutions

The world’s largest company’s largest and most profitable division GE Capital wanted to aggregate its European purchase base to maximise leverage and to up-skill...... read more >>

Utilities

A major UK regional electricity company needed to establish an industry-leading procurement function, and to ensure that the change was sustainable. All training and development...... read more >>