Supporting Acquisitions and Operational Excellence Through Procurement in Private Equity
In private equity, procurement drives real impact – accelerating integrations, improving efficiency, and enhancing portfolio performance. At Procurato, we help portfolio companies and private equity firms themselves create value faster and build stronger, more resilient operations.
Private equity operates in a world of pace, precision, and performance where every decision is measured by its impact on value creation. Firms are under constant pressure to deliver returns quickly, integrate acquisitions seamlessly, and identify efficiencies across diverse portfolios. But despite this focus, procurement often remains an underleveraged lever.
In reality, procurement plays a crucial role in facilitating smooth acquisitions: managing contract separation, consolidation and integration, identifying savings opportunities, implementing cost reduction programmes, minimising risk, and ensuring business continuity. When executed effectively, procurement facilitates business integration and helps private equity firms achieve stronger results faster.
We help private equity firms and their portfolio companies unlock this potential. With deep expertise across direct and indirect procurement, we bring clarity to spend, uncover opportunities for efficiency, and build scalable operating models that deliver operational improvements. Beyond portfolio support, we also help private equity firms themselves achieve better operational and financial results through procurement which has a positive impact on profitability and reduces management fees.
Whether during due diligence, M&A integration, or portfolio performance improvement, we combine analytical precision with hands-on execution to make procurement a true engine of portfolio growth and your own growth as a business.
Procurato supports private equity clients on two levels – helping portfolio companies unlock value and enabling private equity firms themselves to operate more efficiently and profitably.
Supporting Portfolio Companies
We work with portfolio companies throughout the investment lifecycle from pre-deal assessments to post-integration delivery. Our data-driven approach identifies where procurement can deliver the greatest impact: synergy capture, supplier consolidation, cost optimisation, and operational improvement. We move quickly to implement savings initiatives, reduce risk, and build scalable procurement frameworks that strengthen EBITDA and long-term enterprise value.
Enhancing the Private Equity Firm’s Own Operations
Procurement plays an equally critical role within private equity firms themselves. We help firms optimise internal operations, provide spend visibility on global level, identify opportunities, improve procurement capability and develop established supply chains, ensuring efficiency and control across their own cost base. By applying best-in-class processes and technology, we help maximise profitability, working capital benefits and return on management fees while embedding better procurement processes and aligning the business internally.
Across both levels, our work is powered by deep data insights, AI-driven spend analysis, and practical delivery expertise.
At Procurato, we combine real industry expertise with technology that adds value. We speak the same language as your teams, avoiding consultancy complexity, and deliver insights in a clear, practical way.
Agile and adaptable, we stay aligned with your agenda even when challenges arise, always focused on delivering what we promise and leaving behind solutions that last.