Procurement. Elevated.
We don’t just consult. We negotiate.
Procurement consulting powered by AI, grounded in evidence, and built to deliver measurable results.
Trusted by procurement leaders at global enterprises
$2B+ negotiated
1,000+ negotiations
14% average savings
SMB to Fortune 500
Why Vidonas
A different kind of procurement partner.
Practitioner-led, not slide-led.
Every engagement is led by sourcing operators who have run categories at scale. No junior teams. No throwaway decks. We sit beside your buyers and build what stays.
Intelligence built-in.
VISE, our proprietary engine, compresses the discovery, benchmark, and negotiation cycles from weeks to days, so the human work goes into judgment, not spreadsheets.
Accountable to outcomes.
Savings tracked in your finance system, not ours. Frameworks codified into your playbooks. We measure success by what your team owns after we leave.
Services
Built around the problems procurement actually has.
Strategic Sourcing
“Our categories aren’t moving.”
End-to-end category resets: spend baselining, market intelligence, RFx, negotiation, and contracting. Typical engagement: 8–14 weeks.
SRM Transformation
“Our suppliers aren’t strategic partners.”
Segmentation, governance design, and joint-business-planning rollout based on the Vidonas SRM model. From Minimum Viable SRM to enterprise scale.
Operating Model
“Our team is buried in tactical work.”
Procurement operating-model design, capability assessment, and AI-assisted workflow rollout. Move from reactive PO desk to value advisor.
Diagnostics
“We don’t know where to start.”
Two-week procurement health checks and Tier 2 maturity assessments. Outputs include benchmarks, prioritized roadmap, and executive read-out.
Our Technology
VISE: the engine inside every Vidonas engagement.
The Vidonas Intelligent Support Engine compresses the slowest phases of procurement work, market scan, RFx synthesis, benchmark assembly, contract diff, from weeks to days. Operators stay in the seat. The machine carries the load.
What VISE replaces
- 3 weeks of category research
- 5 days of RFP synthesis
- Manual benchmark assembly
- Line-by-line contract review
The intellectual foundation
Two books. One body of practice.
Publishing imminently
SRM 2.0.
Building, strengthening, and perfecting supplier relationship management. The Vidonas segmentation, governance, and maturity framework, distilled into a practitioner’s manual with the Minimum Viable SRM playbook.
Forthcoming
Procurement 4.1.
The next generation of procurement operating models, where AI is the substrate and human judgment is the differentiator. Field-tested across enterprise engagements.
The Analysis Paralysis Podcast
Procurement decisions, examined.
Hosted by Alice and Isaac, our AI procurement analysts. Each episode unpacks one practitioner question, surveys the literature, and lands on what to actually do Monday morning.
Latest: “Should you really run an RFP for that?” · 32 min
Resources
How mature is your procurement function?
The Vidonas Procurement Health Check is a fifteen-minute self-assessment built from the same maturity model we use in client diagnostics. You’ll get a scored radar chart, benchmark comparison, and a prioritized first-action list, no sales call attached.
Two tiers, one model
Tier 1 · Health Check
Eight sections. Radar chart. Free. Email required for full brief
Tier 2 · Procurement Maturity Model
112 questions across eight sections, per-question benchmarks, comprehensive engagement report. Engagement only
Vidonas didn’t deliver a deck. They left us with a working playbook, a calibrated supplier scorecard, and a procurement team that knew what to do without them in the room.
VP, Indirect Procurement · Fortune 100 industrial
Insights
From the desk.
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Start Small or Not at All
The reason most SRM programs fail is too much ambition, too early. Why starting small is strategy — with a 30-60-90 day launch plan.
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Are You Your Supplier’s Best Customer?
Suppliers have their own segmentation models. You are in one of their tiers. Most procurement leaders never ask which one — or what it…
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The Twenty-Year Lie
The promise that enterprise procurement technology would make the function strategic has been broken for twenty years. What actually changed — and why AI…
Ready to elevate sourcing?
Book a 30-minute working session. We’ll come with two questions, you bring one challenge. Whether or not we work together, you’ll leave with a sharper view.