Four ways to build procurement capability that lasts.
For organisations that want a clear, honest picture of where their procurement capability sits and the structured work to improve it. Enhance covers the assessment, the design, and the delivery of change inside your procurement function.
The difference between procurement that works and procurement that creates value is capability. Not just the right processes. Not just the right tools. The right people, with the right skills, operating within a structure that supports good decisions consistently. D1 Advisory's Enhance services build, assess, and strengthen procurement capability inside your organisation. Every engagement uses our Continuous Client Capability Development (C3D) methodology. We teach, we partner, and we hand over. Your team finishes stronger than they started. That is the measure we hold ourselves to.
Four ways to build procurement capability that lasts.
Capability Assessment
A structured assessment of your procurement function's skills, processes, behaviours, and maturity. You finish with a clear baseline, a findings report, and prioritised recommendations. This is the natural starting point for any enterprise engagement and is also available as a standalone service for organisations that want clarity before committing to a broader programme of work.
DiSC Profile
Understand how your team buys, negotiates, and responds to supplier and stakeholder pressure. A procurement-specific DiSC debrief that gives your team the self-awareness to negotiate from a position of strength and recognise when they are being sold to. For enterprise teams, the insight compounds across every supplier interaction. Available as a standalone engagement or as part of a Capability Assessment.
Function Set-up
For small businesses that have reached the point where ad-hoc buying is costing more than it saves. Function Set-up builds a fit-for-purpose procurement structure around your business: the right processes, the right tools, and enough governance to protect your decisions without slowing them down. Scoped to your size and phased so your team can absorb each stage before the next one lands.
Fractionalised Procurement
When a buying decision is too large or too complex to handle alone, we step in and provide enterprise-level leadership or run the process for you. You keep control of the decision. We bring the structure, the rigour, and the supplier management so that nothing gets missed. Designed for businesses that do not need a full-time procurement function but need expert support for specific, purchases.
How we work: C3D
Every client engagement is structured around D1 Advisory's Continuous Client Capability Development (C3D) methodology. We don't just deliver procurement outcomes. We teach, partner, and hand over so your team finishes the engagement with more capability than they started with. That is the benchmark we hold ourselves to.
Questions from enterprise and government.
Yes. All engagements operate under professional confidentiality obligations. D1 Advisory does not disclose client information, share commercially sensitive details, or reference client engagements publicly. A mutual NDA can be executed prior to any engagement where required.
Yes. The DiSC Profile is available as a standalone engagement for individuals or teams. It is also available as a component of a Capability Assessment, where the behavioural data is integrated with the skills and process findings to give a complete picture of your procurement function.
Yes. D1 Advisory regularly works alongside existing procurement, finance, legal, and operations teams. The role is to add specialist procurement capability and build internal capability as we go, not to replace what is already in place.
C3D stands for Continuous Client Capability Development. In practice it means every engagement is structured so that your team learns alongside the delivery. We teach the procurement thinking behind each decision, partner on the execution, and hand over structured materials at the close of the engagement. Your team is more capable at the end than they were at the start. That is the measure we hold ourselves to.
Most enterprise engagements begin with a Capability Assessment. It gives you a clear baseline, a findings report, and a set of prioritised recommendations. From there, the right combination of Enhance services is scoped to your organisation's profile and readiness.
Seven questions. Two minutes.
A clear answer.
Take our Procurement Readiness Assessment. We'll tell you where we think your business sits, what to focus on first that makes sense for where you want your business to get to.
