# Black Ridge Industries

> We take the complexity of supplying every site off your plate.

Black Ridge runs procurement and fulfillment for organizations with many branches, sites or field teams. Your teams use one catalog of your own suppliers. Each site gets one delivery and one invoice, with every line coded in your ERP.

Clients keep their own suppliers, or ask Black Ridge to source the products. Black Ridge serves the United States, Canada, Africa and the EU.

## Main pages

- [Home](/): Procurement managed services for organizations with many branches, sites or field teams.
- [How it works](/procurement-managed-services): How Black Ridge manages ordering, approvals, suppliers, delivery, invoicing and ERP data.
- [Who we serve](/industries): Services for branch and site networks and industrial operations.
- [Branch and site networks](/industries/branch-and-site-networks): One catalog, one delivery and one invoice per branch or site.
- [Industrial operations](/industries/industrial-operations): One managed supply flow for industrial sites and distributed workforces.
- [Banking](/industries/banking): One catalog, one delivery and one invoice per branch for collateral, signage, consumables and uniforms. Run for African Bank across 800+ branches.
- [Uniforms and kit](/uniform-management): Uniforms, PPE and kit ordered by name and size, packed per person and delivered to each site. Leavers blocked automatically. Every issue on record.
- [Opening packs](/branch-opening-packs): Every new branch or site opens with what it needs: collateral, signage, supplies, uniforms and kit, scripted once and delivered as one pack.
- [Proof](/proof): Results from African Bank, British Airways and Walmart Group.
- [Free supply diagnostic](/free-spend-diagnostic): A free review of your sites, suppliers and orders, with a short report and one-page plan.
- [About](/about): The Black Ridge partners and the company behind the service.
- [Partners](/partners): How consultancies and advisors can introduce clients to Black Ridge.
- [Insights](/blog): Plain guides on supplying many sites: ordering, delivery, invoicing, stock and working capital.

## Proof

- African Bank, 800+ branches: four couriers became one delivery; purchase orders went from four hours a day to five minutes; invoice capture went from a week per region to two hours a week for every region; an overstated uniform supplier invoice was caught and recovered.
- British Airways, 25+ years: uniform stock was cut by 46% by matching it to the real size curve of the workforce; issue was timed to tenure; uniforms were retrieved when people left.
- Walmart Group: supplier invoices fell from 6,640 to 680 a year; 2,730 deliveries were prevented; 56 supplier invoices became 8; courier cost fell 21%; consumables cost fell 16.8%, with 7.6% still in the client's pocket after every Black Ridge fee.
- Across live programs, Black Ridge observes 60 to 77% less admin on routine orders.

## Articles

- [What is tail spend?](/blog/what-is-tail-spend): A plain definition, why it grows, what it costs and examples by industry.
- [Managed procurement and your ERP](/blog/managed-procurement-additive-not-replacement): Why a managed procurement service adds to your ERP instead of replacing it.
- [Procurement as a Service: A Guide for Multi-Site Organizations](/blog/procurement-as-a-service-guide): How the model works with your ERP, suppliers and approvals.
- [Tail spend management guide](/blog/tail-spend-management-guide): How organizations bring the long tail under control.
- [Operational purchasing costs](/blog/cost-problem-operational-purchasing): Where the hidden admin and supplier costs build.
- [Poor spend visibility](/blog/poor-spend-visibility-costing-business): How weak line-level visibility affects control and decisions.
- [Working capital and stock](/blog/working-capital-disappearing-into-stock): How stock structure and replenishment affect working capital.

## Contact

- Email: jevan@blackridgeindustries.ca
- [Book a call](/contact): Talk with the Black Ridge team.