Our PartnersA powerful partner ecosystem
We’re experts at enabling strategic procurement, but we can’t be great at everything. That’s why we partner with other leading experts in the industry to be even better together.
We carefully select each partner to compliment who we are and what we do, ensuring we deliver great value to our clients. Our growing partner ecosystem, combined with our leading SaaS, tools and training programs means we can offer everything needed for strategic procurement.
ProcureVue™
ProcureVue™ transforms raw procurement data into powerful insights. Their AI-native solution delivers fast, actionable intelligence by cleansing, harmonising, enriching, and categorising spend, empowering organisations to unlock savings, optimise supplier performance,…
ProcureVue™ transforms raw procurement data into powerful insights. Their AI-native solution delivers fast, actionable intelligence by cleansing, harmonising, enriching, and categorising spend, empowering organisations to unlock savings, optimise supplier performance, and drive strategic value.
We partner with ProcureVue to transform our clients’ data, turning it from a complex mess into an accurate, multi-level oversight of procurement categories. This provides the perfect base for category management training.
Technology Partner
Suppeco
Suppeco is a leading enterprise SaaS provider specializing in relationship-led Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) technology. Together, we offer a fully integrated solution that combines strategic procurement capability with advanced digital…
Suppeco is a leading enterprise SaaS provider specializing in relationship-led Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) technology. Together, we offer a fully integrated solution that combines strategic procurement capability with advanced digital tools. This collaboration brings together our proven procurement methodologies and capability development program with Suppeco’s dynamic SaaS platform, enabling organizations to transform supplier relationships into a source of measurable value.
Through this partnership, our customers benefit from enhanced supplier engagement, improved performance, and greater strategic alignment across the supply base. It represents a powerful synergy of technology and expertise, designed to deliver sustainable competitive advantage in today’s complex procurement environments.
Technology Partner
Mithra
Mithra provides trusted category insights, allowing Category Managers to source responsibly and save costs. With Mithra-Ai, you can see more addressable spend, create strategies with confidence, collaborate with stakeholders, negotiate…
Mithra provides trusted category insights, allowing Category Managers to source responsibly and save costs. With Mithra-Ai, you can see more addressable spend, create strategies with confidence, collaborate with stakeholders, negotiate with trusted data, and report on success.
Mithra integrates seamlessly with our Procleus platform for strategic procurement. You can also combine it with licences to Capella, our guided category strategy creator®, to power your category strategies. Mithra takes the heavy lifting out of data cleansing, helps validate cost savings, and with their built in taxonomy mapper, you get effortless and accurate CSRD reporting.
Technology Partner
Forestreet
Forestreet is a next-generation SaaS vendor discovery tool at the forefront of transforming procurement. Leveraging cutting-edge AI, Forestreet empowers companies to revolutionise their procurement processes by enabling users to identify…
Forestreet is a next-generation SaaS vendor discovery tool at the forefront of transforming procurement. Leveraging cutting-edge AI, Forestreet empowers companies to revolutionise their procurement processes by enabling users to identify and shortlist suppliers in minutes rather than months. You can map, categorize, analyze and deeply understand any market. Our partnership with Forestreet helps our clients remove risk in the supply base and provide procurement teams with the speed and confidence needed to make informed decisions when creating their category strategies. Forestreet’s AI-powered platform integrates seamlessly with Procleus and Capella.
Technology Partner
Deepstream
DeepStream are on a mission to make digital transformation an easy and accessible experience for all procurement professionals. Their leading products help to eliminate outdated source-to-contract processes, empowering procurement teams to…
DeepStream are on a mission to make digital transformation an easy and accessible experience for all procurement professionals. Their leading products help to eliminate outdated source-to-contract processes, empowering procurement teams to save time, reduce spend and transact with confidence. DeepStream offer a great complementary solution which can be integrated with our strategic procurement and negotiation platform, Procleus. It can also be accessed via Capella, our guided category strategy creator®, and Ruby, our guided negotiation plan creator®, to provide integrated category and supplier data.
Technology Partner
Matchory
Matchory enables companies to make better procurement decisions through AI-powered supplier discovery. Their platform and global supplier database helps accelerate and digitize the strategic sourcing process. Buyers can easily find…
Matchory enables companies to make better procurement decisions through AI-powered supplier discovery. Their platform and global supplier database helps accelerate and digitize the strategic sourcing process. Buyers can easily find suitable suppliers automatically at the touch of a button, thus reducing time to market. A great complementary solution which can be accessed via our Procleus platform and used alongside our Capella tool for breakthrough category strategy creation.
Technology Partner
Beroe
Our strategic partnership with procurement intelligence and analytics provider, Beroe, makes Positive Purchasing’s digital platform, Procleus, available on Beroe LIVE.Ai. Together we have formed a procurement productivity suite, providing access to…
Our strategic partnership with procurement intelligence and analytics provider, Beroe, makes Positive Purchasing’s digital platform, Procleus, available on Beroe LIVE.Ai.
Together we have formed a procurement productivity suite, providing access to the latest, best-in-class suite of procurement and supply chain tools, templates and digital learning, combined with market-leading procurement intelligence and analytics.
Technology Partner
Fresh Air Studios
Fresh Air Studios is a leading creative communications agency based in Plymouth, UK and have supported us since our inception. They produce our co-host our podcast, The Procurement Show, and…
Fresh Air Studios is a leading creative communications agency based in Plymouth, UK and have supported us since our inception. They produce our co-host our podcast, The Procurement Show, and are the creative force behind some of our video creation and animation. They also help us create and deploy communication programs for our key clients’ procurement transformation programs.
Media Partner
Mintec
Mintec enables the world’s largest food and CPG brands to implement more efficient and sustainable procurement strategies. This is achieved through their cutting-edge SaaS platform, Mintec Analytics, which delivers market prices and analysis…
Mintec enables the world’s largest food and CPG brands to implement more efficient and sustainable procurement strategies. This is achieved through their cutting-edge SaaS platform, Mintec Analytics, which delivers market prices and analysis for more than 14,000 food ingredients and associated materials.
Their data and tools empower customers to understand supplier prices better, analyse their spend and negotiate with confidence. This ensures they are best placed to reduce costs, manage risk and increase their efficiency, helping to maximise their margins.
Technology Partner
SC Italia
SC Italia is focused on helping companies in Italy and Switzerland improve their Supply Management performance. Ensuring alignment and consistency between procurement and business strategies, SC Italia supports clients in…
SC Italia is focused on helping companies in Italy and Switzerland improve their Supply Management performance. Ensuring alignment and consistency between procurement and business strategies, SC Italia supports clients in the planning and implementation of the structural levers (Processes, Skills, Organization and KPI) of the procurement function.
SC Italia’s advisors are all certified professionals with significant operational experience whose approach is both practical and structured in accordance with its P1 Method.
A well-established alliance partner of Positive Purchasing, SC Italia is an approved provider of 5i Category Management and Red Sheet Negotiation training and tools.
Delivery and Channel Partner
PCN Training and Coaching
PCN is an approved partner and provider to Positive Purchasing. PCN is a specialist in negotiation and procurement consultancy, training and coaching based in Maastricht, Netherlands.
Implementation Partner
SEAK LLC
SEAK LLC are our US strategic alliance partners. They bring over 25 years’ experience of strategic procurement with a wealth of experience of consulting with Fortune 500 companies. SEAK are…
SEAK LLC are our US strategic alliance partners. They bring over 25 years’ experience of strategic procurement with a wealth of experience of consulting with Fortune 500 companies.
SEAK are our US delivery partner for our purchasing and negotiation training, our competency assessment programs and collaborate with us on the development of the future thought leadership that will enable the procurement community.
Delivery and Channel Partner