Strategic Sourcing—Driving out cost, driving in loyalty.

Cost Saving Strategies

As our customer base has grown, so too has our sophistication and scope of cost-saving strategies.  While we’re in the business of creativity, costs need to be managed and contained, deadlines need to be met, and customers need to be satisfied. BDA takes Strategic Sourcing seriously through a variety of channels:

• ProBuy™ Supply Chain Management – Driving out cost is one of our first priorities, so we’ve developed a system that allows us to be completely integrated and focused in all our procurement efforts.  Economies of scale are derived from company-wide sourcing volume and consolidated buys.  Sourcing and purchase order approval controls are in place to provide oversight into all our efforts.
  
  
• Importing – With the depth of over 100 years of combined experience in overseas product development, production and logistics, BDA’s Import Team provides clients with cost savings through our presence in China and additional resources around the globe.
  
  
• Global Procurement System (GPS) Team– With over 150 years of procurement, project management and QA/QC experience being tapped daily on BDA projects, the GPS Team reviews orders at the concept stage and manages these orders to ensure they are executed with qualified partners at the ideal place in the supply chain.  In addition to cost savings, these efforts deliver safe, on-time products.
  
  
• Preferred Supplier Program – BDA sets the industry benchmark for developing long-term strategic relationships with our entire Domestic and International Supply Chain. A dedicated Vendor Relationship Manager is charged with managing and monitoring our vendors to maintain a high level of quality, accountability, efficiency, and proprietary pricing necessary for them to meet our criteria and remain in our Preferred Supplier Program.