Services
Global Procurement Services
ARK offers more than just standard global purchasing services. We are a trading and procurement company. Whether you are looking for a new supplier, supply chain diversification, production transfer or to outsource to a local partner, we have the requisite experience. As a procurement and trading firm, we manage your projects from inception through to delivery of the goods to your chosen destination at the best and most legitimate price.
Many procurement and trading firms simply provide prices yet never support your entire transaction. At ARK, our global team manages the entire purchasing process by taking a proactive role to guarantee product quality and delivery on your terms. Below are some examples of activities we undertake for you:
- Manage day to day supply needs through our trading operations
- Offer legitimate and competitive pricing and terms
- Oversight and management of purchase orders and invoices
- Project coordination
- Perform quality control and assurance
- Freight Consolidation and shipping
- Customs clearance
- Special packaging or delivery requirements
Global Sourcing Solutions
We work closely with our clients to deliver and sustain those cost improvements, improve cross-functional collaboration, develop new capabilities and more streamlined processes, and build stronger, more productive supplier relationships. By drawing on our global network of procurement experts in countries and offices around the globe, ARK can help companies develop a customized plan to generate significant savings quickly.
Our innovative techniques include:
Strategic Sourcing – We implement enterprise-wide strategic sourcing programs or across specific purchasing categories that are collaborative and have a systematic approach for dramatically reducing external spending, while improving quality, internal processes, and total cost.
- Modular Sourcing – We look at internal and external collaboration processes aimed at reducing the overall supply chain costs. Assembly savings are enabled by modularity, reduced sub-assembly, and mainline assembly in house
- Supplier Network Rationalization – We identify and implement a supplier network to provide the lowest total cost for the business unit/enterprise given projected manufacturing footprint, quality, delivery, and flexibility targets
- Supplier Identification & Development – We identify and develop suppliers in markets that line up with the supplier network rationalization strategy
Procurement Business Process Transformation – We help clients fundamentally rethink and radically redesign their core procurement business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in critical performance measures such as quality, cost, and cycle time. AAG’s proven expertise in this area ensures that the right capabilities, governance structures, and metrics are in place to drive real, sustainable change.
Trading & Sourcing Alternatives
ARK helps clients build and manage world-class Supplier Diversity programs. We partner with clients to develop an all-inclusive procurement and trading strategy to widen the pool of potential suppliers which includes AAG’s own inventory and trading operations which in 2021 amounted to greater than 6.1 billion dollars.
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OUR GLOBAL NETWORK PROVIDES VIABLE ALTERNATIVES AND COMPREHENSIVE SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS!
ARK has an extensive global network and expertise in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. We can find and assess your ideal manufacturer or refinery, support your production transition, and provide scalable, end-to-end supply chain solutions.