Procurement Consulting · Built for Growing Businesses

Procurement expertise
for businesses with growing pains.

Ellsworth delivers enterprise-grade procurement strategy, sourcing, and technology advisory to small and mid-sized businesses — at a cost and scope built for where you actually are.

Our Services

At a Glance

Years of Experience11
Clients Served28+
Spend Assessed$110B+
Avg. Savings Delivered6–18%
Who We Help

Built for businesses
at an inflection point.

Most procurement consulting is built for billion dollar businesses. Ellsworth is built for everyone else — growing businesses and independent consultants who need enterprise-level capability without enterprise-level overhead.

Founder-Owned Family-Owned Series A & B Growth Stage Portfolio Companies Independent Consultants
01

You're paying more than you should

Without structured sourcing, most growing businesses overpay by 10–30% across key categories. The savings exist — they just haven't been unlocked.

02

Procurement is reactive, not strategic

Purchases happen ad hoc. No supplier leverage. No category strategy. Decisions made under pressure rather than by design.

03

You don't need a full-time hire yet

A VP of Procurement is a $200K+ commitment. You need senior expertise on demand — matched to the work at hand.

04

Scaling is exposing the gaps

What worked at 20 employees breaks at 100. Vendor complexity, contract risk, and exposure all grow faster than headcount.

05

Evolving in the age of AI

AI is reshaping how businesses operate and how professional services are delivered. Knowing what to adopt, how to maintain quality, and where human judgment remains essential is a challenge for growing companies and independent consultants alike.

What We Do

Expertise across the
full procurement value stream.

01

Procurement & Spend Assessment

A structured diagnostic of your procurement maturity, spend profile, and opportunity landscape — including technology and AI readiness.

  • Spend analysis, categorization & taxonomy
  • Procurement maturity & operating model assessment
  • Value opportunity identification & savings roadmap
  • Category prioritization & quick-win analysis
  • Technology & AI capability assessment
02

Value Delivery & Strategic Sourcing

End-to-end sourcing — from spend analysis and supplier intelligence to negotiation leadership and contract execution.

  • Category strategy development & execution
  • Supplier RFx development & management
  • Negotiation strategy & execution
  • Contract drafting, review & award
03

Procurement Function Build

For businesses formalizing procurement for the first time — operating model, policies, processes, and team structure.

  • Operating model design & governance
  • Policy, process & controls development
  • Category management
  • KPI frameworks, reporting & analytics
  • Technology selection & transformation planning
04

Ongoing Advisory

Fractional procurement leadership — senior expertise without a full-time hire, on a retained basis.

  • Retained advisory & fractional CPO model
  • Category strategy development & execution
  • Supplier relationship management
  • Executive & board-level reporting
05

The Ellsworth Ecosystem — For Independent Consultants

Access Ellsworth's proprietary delivery infrastructure to run your own engagements at enterprise quality. We handle the platform — you bring the expertise.

Workflow Automation Planning
  • Service workflow design & scoping
  • Automation opportunity mapping
  • Delivery model configuration
  • Output QA framework
Tech Stack Recommendation
  • Tool selection for your practice
  • AI & automation stack design
  • Integration planning
  • Cost-efficiency optimization
Service Orchestration
  • Prepackaged service modules
  • Agent-assisted execution
  • Knowledge & benchmark library
  • Expert-in-the-loop delivery
Contracting
  • Consultant agreement templates
  • Client-facing contract support
  • Engagement scoping guidance
  • IP & deliverable frameworks

All client data is engagement-specific and fully siloed — never shared across clients or consultants.

Why Ellsworth

Enterprise results.
Without enterprise overhead.

Modular Service Packages

Pre-built, repeatable service modules configured and deployed rapidly — without rebuilding delivery infrastructure for every engagement.

  • Faster time-to-value
  • Consistent, high-quality deliverables
  • Right-sized scope for every client

Proprietary Knowledge Library

Every engagement draws from a continuously updated library of benchmarks, category intelligence, and value levers built from real work across industries.

  • Category-specific market benchmarks
  • Proven KPI & value lever frameworks
  • Updated from live engagements
  • All client information completely siloed

Network of Expert Consultants

A curated network of procurement specialists across categories and industries — deployed through a coordinated model when the engagement demands it.

  • Specialists matched to engagement needs
  • Consistent delivery standards
  • Scale without sacrificing quality

Expert-in-the-Loop Operating Model

Ellsworth combines AI-assisted workflows with senior level expertise at every critical decision point — delivering enterprise-grade output at a fraction of traditional consultancy fees.

Enterprise Qualityat an accessible price
Our Process

Simple. Structured. Results-first.

1

Discovery

We learn your business first — spend profile, supplier relationships, maturity, and the pressures driving the engagement.

2

Strategy

We develop the sourcing strategy, opportunity roadmap, or function design — grounded in your data and benchmarked against the market.

3

Execution

We do the work — RFx events, negotiations, technology implementation, process design. Recommendations without follow-through aren't in our model.

4

Handover & Continuity

Engagements close with documentation, trained teams, and a clear forward path. Clients walk away with capability they own.

About Ellsworth

Enterprise experience.
Independent perspective.

Scott Ellsworth

Ellsworth was founded by Scott Ellsworth — a procurement professional with 11 years of experience spanning Fortune 500 clients, global transformations, and complex multi-category sourcing programs across manufacturing, utilities, mining, and technology.

After years delivering high-stakes programs for large enterprises, Scott built Ellsworth to bring that same caliber of work to the businesses that need it most — without the budget that traditional consulting demands.

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Sample Experiences

Work that speaks for itself.

Spend Analytics
Sovereign development megaproject  ·  Billions in annual procurement spend
Challenge

No unified spend visibility across major procurement domains — no taxonomy, no analytics, no roadmap.

Solution
  • Led spend assessment across FM, Construction, A&E, ICT, and Marketing
  • Built a Power BI spend analytics platform with custom category taxonomy
  • Delivered a category development and savings roadmap
Established spend visibility and a prioritized category development roadmap across 5 procurement domains.
Value Delivery
Major regional utility  ·  ~$200M ICT spend
Challenge

Cost and margin pressure with limited internal sourcing capacity to move fast.

Solution
  • Analyzed ~$200M in ICT spend; identified ~$16M in savings opportunities across ~$90M of addressable ICT software spend
  • Led five concurrent supplier negotiations on ~$20M of ICT software spend
  • Delivered direct negotiation training, templates, and best practices to the client team
$3.2M (17%) in implemented savings. ~$16M in opportunities identified and handed off.
Strategic Sourcing
Global diversified manufacturer  ·  $8.7M fleet spend
Challenge

Financed fleet costs with no formal procurement or competitive sourcing in over a decade.

Solution
  • Refined and updated fleet and service specifications
  • Designed and ran a full sourcing event across the fleet category
  • Managed RFx, competitive bidding, and contract negotiations
~$870K saved (10%) across trucks, trailers, and fleet services.
Transformation
Fortune 50 global beverage company  ·  86 countries, 1,200 users
Challenge

Simultaneous global P2P migration from SAP ECC to S/4 Hana — a big-bang go-live with no margin for error across a complex global operation.

Solution
  • Led master data alignment, cutover planning & execution, and business validation and go-live
  • Drove organizational readiness across 86 countries
On-time global go-live. No operational disruption.
Get Started

Ready to build a
smarter procurement function?

Whether you're running your first sourcing event, standing up a procurement team, or trying to get control of a spend base that's outgrown you — Ellsworth is built for that conversation.