The Smart Cube took a very proactive and forward-thinking approach and offered us a solution to conduct powerful data analysis and provide actionable insights, which in turn, helped us substantially improve our purchase order accuracy.

Jessica Walters, Manager of Global Sourcing, Elizabeth Arden

The Smart Cube is well known for its cross-category expertise and ability to advise clients on a range of procurement challenges. But what has kept the firm on the 50 Providers to Know list for multiple years is its commitment to continuous innovation. Within the past year, The Smart Cube has launched several new technology-enabled offerings for use by its clients. Each addresses a unique use case — for example, managing commodity price volatility via a mix of client-tailored internal and external data feeds — supported by The Smart Cube’s own managed services. The result is an augmentation of the procurement organization’s own capabilities, allowing them to increase the transparency and visibility of their supply chains, proactively manage a broad spectrum of risks, and, of course, better manage costs even in difficult market conditions.

Nick Heinzmann, research analyst at Spend Matters

The Smart Cube and CASME share similar ethics as our insights are not influenced by suppliers or sponsors, making this alliance an ideal fit. CASME members worldwide will greatly benefit from being able to use The Smart Cube’s regional market intelligence at our events, which will also help to validate their category strategies.

Graham Crawshaw, Global Services Director, CASME

I particularly found the purchase pattern analysis very insightful and interesting. It shows that The Smart Cube team was able to quickly pick up the nuances of our operations, and deliver insights based on the data and how we think about the business. Very impressive!

Vivek Kumar, Chief Revenue Officer, UrbanStems

The Smart DCC SRM programme has helped DCC to better manage its suppliers, have fact-based discussions over supplier performance and drive both performance improvement and innovation. The monthly supplier dashboards produced for Smart DCC by The Smart Cube have enabled Smart DCC to carry out this activity.

Roger Maybury, Former Head of Supplier Relationship Management

Once we identified the challenge we wanted to address, we handed it off to The Smart Cube team and they took care of everything. The whole research project was handled professionally, and delivered on schedule. We got data, we asked questions, we got answers. It was the perfect solution for us.

Rob Wilson, Chief Toaster