32% Savings. Straight to EBITDA.
How CCM unlocked hidden value across a PE portfolio — renegotiating $20M+ in vendor contracts and eliminating $400K in hidden fees, without adding a single headcount. Every dollar flows straight to EBITDA.
The Challenges
Sound familiar? Most PE portfolios are sitting on 6–12% of indirect spend that could be recaptured — they just don't know it yet.
Blind spots cost money.
No visibility or benchmarking on indirect spend across the portfolio. Every vendor renewal was a missed negotiation, and every contract was signed in the dark.
Fragmentation is expensive.
Each portfolio company bought independently, forfeiting the leverage scale should provide. No shared standards, no consolidated pricing, no governance.
Your operators shouldn't be doing this.
Management teams lacked the bandwidth and category expertise to audit and negotiate vendor contracts — exactly when vendors win.
Five Categories. One Engagement. Immediate EBITDA Impact.
CCM ran a concurrent, multi-category optimization across the entire portfolio — delivering savings faster than any sequential approach could.
Shipping
Benchmarked carrier rates and optimized routing across small parcel, LTL, and freight for every portfolio company.
Telecom
Audited plans, eliminated unused lines, and renegotiated enterprise voice, data, and mobile agreements.
MFDs
Right-sized device fleets, standardized lease terms, and consolidated vendors.
Background Screening
Standardized vendor selection and negotiated volume pricing for pre-employment and compliance screening.
Electronic Payments
Identified and eliminated hidden treasury and payment-processing fees totaling $400K.
The CCM Strategy
We don't just cut costs. We build a system that keeps cutting them.
Visibility
Clear Optics for All Spend
Built comprehensive dashboards giving PE leadership real-time visibility into indirect costs across every portfolio company.
Policy
New Expense Audit Policy
Implemented standardized audit protocols and procurement policies, creating accountability and preventing uncontrolled spending.
Standardization
Right-Sized Products & Services
Analyzed actual usage to eliminate over-provisioned services, redundant contracts, and misaligned product tiers.
Integration
Changing How Teams Buy
Embedded procurement best practices into staff workflows, transforming purchasing behavior, not just vendor contracts.
Why This Works for PE Specifically
The CCM advantage — deep expertise applied at portfolio scale.
Portfolio-Wide Leverage
We aggregate spend across your entire platform and negotiate from consolidated scale — leverage no single portfolio company has alone.
We Know What Vendors Won't Tell You
Deep market intelligence across shipping, telecom, MFD, and payment vendors. We know exactly what "good" looks like.
Every Contract Is a Negotiation
We treat every renewal as a renegotiation, benchmarked against current market rates and hundreds of comparable deals.
You Negotiate With Market Data, Not Blind
Proprietary benchmarking from hundreds of engagements means every negotiation starts from strength.
Find the savings your portfolio didn't know it had.
Most PE firms are 6–12 weeks away from double-digit EBITDA improvement — they just haven't looked at indirect spend yet.