Corporate Cost Reduction

Our teams find money that is buried or leaking out of your P&L, allowing you more freedom and flexibility to strengthen your business—with zero risk!

Now, more than ever, it’s vital to protect your bottom line. We guarantee sizable and bankable savings—or you don’t pay a dime.

We Save Our Clients Millions Every Year

What would you do to save a few million dollars with no risk?  What if it only took a few hours over several weeks?

We are your vendor watchdog. For 25 years our teams have served companies from under $100 Million to over $100 Billion in revenues. You don’t pay us until after we get you bankable results. It’s as simple as that.

No Risk

When we complete a free audit for you, that’s exactly what it is. We will investigate how much we can save your company. There is no financial risk for you because you will only pay us if we save you money. Also, there is no procedural risk – your vendor services will remain the same. We will not try to change your vendors.

No Obligation

After we do the digging to find out how much we can save your business, we’ll present the savings opportunity to you. There is no obligation to move forward. It will either make sense or it won’t. And that will be clear to both of us.

Very Little Time

Your time is extremely valuable – and our audit takes almost no time on you or your staff’s part. We do the digging, analyze the numbers, and find out what rates and discounts you qualify for, and how much we can save you. In exchange for 6-10 hours of your staff’s time (over 60-90 days) we’ll find and secure the savings for you. If we don’t, you will be confident in the knowledge that you have the best terms possible. Sounds like a win-win.

Expertise and Experience

For over 25 years, our category teams have successfully renegotiated thousands of contracts. Our category experts have 30+ years of industry experience. Our proprietary databases hold thousands of actual contracts that enable us to go beyond what vendors “offer” to do, and toward what vendors “will” do. This is why 100 of the Fortune 500 companies hire us.

Our expertise can save you millions. Put our experts to work with a free, no-obligation audit.

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Our Services

Boosting Your Bottom Line

All of our services are aimed at cutting your corporate costs so your profit margin skyrockets—that is the only way we get paid.

Vendor Optimization

Improve Your Terms

You and your teams are optimizing your direct vendor relationships daily—or you’d be out of business. Our teams are engaged daily with the indirect vendors you negotiate with every year or more. You know what they have offered to do—we know what they WILL do to keep your business. Let us use our data and experience to optimize the terms for the relationships you value. Your service won’t change, and your staff and clients won’t experience any transition issues.

Our category expertise includes logistics, IT, financial services, marketing, and more.

Technology Optimization

Optimize Your Tools

Our digital/software solutions will continually optimize and protect your devices, technology, and many of your automated procedures—documenting the savings in real-time, and automatically eliminating double payments and useless redundancy. Our patented ‘zero trust’ data security is simple, affordable, and has proven 100% effective in frustrating ransomware threats.

Once we’ve optimized your vendor terms, our ongoing audit assures your invoices are accurate and your new terms don’t ‘drift.’

Tax Optimization

You Never Get Taxes Back

The Real Estate Property and Fixed Assets of tens of thousands of companies already qualify for handsome tax relief due to obscure, but safe and seasoned tax strategies that most companies are unfamiliar with. Our tax team has streamlined the identification and documentation of significant tax deductions that have likely been buried for years—and have added as much as $30 million each to the bottom line of hundreds of clients—with no IRS issues. Large tax firms refer their clients to our team due to the profitable and trouble-free experience they have with us.

Our tax experts also have strategies that can dramatically reduce the burden of State and Local tax obligations.

It all starts with a free audit that can quickly identify the opportunity.

Our Teams Have Served…

Praise For Our Teams

“The combined data and voice services savings TCF has realized over the three negotiations you have been involved with is well over $3 million. That represents real, hard dollar savings and I want to express my deep appreciation…You delivered exactly what you said you would and have done it multiple times over the years.”

TCF Bank

“I truly believe that with your assistance Menasha was able to acquire the best in class pricing and terms available in the marketplace.”

Menasha Corp

“I would recommend this team to any company looking to improve their small parcel carrier agreements…”

Premier Dental

“Even though the negotiations with AT&T lasted a year, the payoff was beyond our expectations.”

Brady Corporation

“One thing that impressed me...is that you did not make big claims – you just asked for a chance to prove yourselves…The savings you secured for us in each negotiation went beyond my expectation…For our business that was a terrific ‘win.’ I have and will continue to encourage any company that wants to reduce costs to use your services.”

Cabela’s, Inc.

“Thanks again for all of your help and expertise all along the way on these contract renewals! As usual your experience and skills have created a big value add for Federated Insurance.”

Federated Insurance

Frequently Asked Questions

What do you mean by "no risk"?

First, there is no financial risk – it’s not necessary to find our fee in your budget. We will find the money for our fee, plus additional money you can use to fund initiative projects and reducing layoffs. You only pay us with money you have saved, and only AFTER you have realized the savings.

Second, there is no procedural risk – since we don’t change your vendor, services and processes don’t change.

How do you get paid?

We bill clients a percentage of the realized savings we find them. This fee is typically paid at the end of the month after the savings is realized. This percentage fee will continue over the course of the new contract, which usually lasts 3 years.

Do you get paid by vendors?

No. We do not get paid by vendors. We represent our clients in negotiations with vendors.

Isn't it procurement's job to get the best vendor rates?

Yes – partly. Procurement systems and experts excel in driving the specs and deliverables, but do not have the data we have built over 25 years. 3 quotes every 3 years is not the same as negotiating hundreds of agreements with that exact vendor every year. RFP’s tell you what a vendor is offering to do, our intelligence tells us what a vendor has done – and will do – to keep your business.

We seek to be an active resource for your procurement department, as we are able to do what they cannot—analyze your agreement in the context of thousands of other actual and current agreements.

Are you a buying co-op or GPO (Group Purchasing Organization)?

No. Our model is to serve individual clients, and not the average of many customers.

What if there is several years left on my vendor agreement?

In the case of most vendor agreements, there are many pages, and terms tend to favor the vendor. Vendors know that if you learn the terms could have been better, that you will be  merely counting the days until you can replace them—it is in their best interest to keep their relationship positive.

We regularly renegotiate 3 year agreements that are only 10 months old. But even if you don’t choose to pursue a renegotiation, our free (and no-obligation) can validate the quality and fairness of your agreement.

Remember that any available discounts are already being shared—100% to the vendor. Wouldn’t you like to share in those discounts as well?

How are you able to do this?

Over the past 25 years we have built databases consisting of thousands of contracts from dozens of vendors—giving us an insight into what is possible. Then, our category experts either come alongside you or represent you directly in the renegotiation.

Need More Answers?

We’d be happy to hear your unique business needs, answer questions you have related to your company and our services, and explain to you the potential benefits we can deliver you. One of our consultants would love to have a call with you.

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Get A Free Audit

Without you spending a dime, we will analyze your existing contracts and invoices to identify discounts and savings opportunities at no cost or obligation. If there is an opportunity you want to pursue, we will then suggest a strategy for moving forward.

This is all done confidentially under a bilateral Non-Disclosure Agreement, and your vendor will not be alerted—So, there is no risk or interruption to your service.

ICG Edge

We specialize in retaining corporate cash flow, and guarantee that you will appreciate our services and expertise—with no risk, no obligation, and no wasted time.

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