Asia Sourcing Savings Consulting
YCP excels in Asia Sourcing Savings Consulting across Asia, helping clients thrive in the region's competitive market sectors through comprehensive consulting services. With decades of experience, YCP provides hands-on support, ensuring cost-effective solutions and strategic sourcing success.

Key Challenges We Address
Navigating Cost Pressures in Dynamic Asian Markets
- Companies sourcing in Asia face shrinking profit margins as labor and material costs have risen unpredictably across major hubs in recent years.
- Through deep market analysis and supplier benchmarking, YCP empowers clients to identify untapped saving opportunities and build resilient sourcing strategies.
Supplier Reliability Amid Supply Chain Disruptions
- Frequent disruptions from geopolitical shifts and logistics delays have caused supplier reliability in Asia to drop, impacting fulfillment consistency.
- Applying our rigorous supplier assessment and dual-sourcing frameworks, YCP helps clients stabilize supply chains and safeguard service levels.
Managing Quality Variance Across Diverse Suppliers
- Quality inconsistencies persist as businesses grapple with varying standards among regional suppliers, leading to costly rework and reputational risks.
- YCP collaborates closely with clients to implement robust quality auditing and long-term supplier development programs tailored to diverse Asian environments.
Ensuring Compliance With Evolving Local Regulations
- Evolving trade, labor, and environmental regulations across Asia challenge companies to stay compliant, risking supply chain interruptions and fines.
- Keeping clients ahead of regulatory change, YCP maps compliance requirements and aligns sourcing strategies to minimize risk and streamline cross-border operations.
Why Choose YCP

YCP delivers proven sourcing savings consulting services across Asia, leveraging deep regional expertise to maximize cost efficiencies and unlock sustainable value for clients. Our team stands apart by integrating advanced analytics, innovative negotiation strategies, and robust supplier management tailored to the evolving dynamics of the Asian market. By blending on-the-ground insights with global best practices, YCP ensures each solution is finely tuned to the operational realities and unique challenges faced by businesses in Asia. Why Choose YCP for Sourcing Savings Consulting in Asia:
Spend Optimization
Strategic market insights leverage Asia’s supply networks, unlocking unmatched sourcing savings for your business growth.
Strategic Negotiation
Unlock cost efficiencies with YCP’s Asia-sourcing expertise for sustainable, streamlined procurement savings in a complex market.
Process Automation
Deep regional insights drive sourcing strategies that unlock sustainable savings for Asia-based businesses.
Change Adoption
Deep supplier networks across Asia deliver significant cost savings and sourcing efficiencies for your business.
Partnering with YCP empowers companies to identify, capture, and sustain sourcing savings opportunities with confidence across Asia’s complex supply landscape. Our experts work side-by-side with clients, proactively executing strategies and ensuring tangible, measurable improvements—not just providing recommendations. With YCP, organizations gain a dedicated ally committed to creating lasting impact from strategy development through to implementation and beyond.

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Strategic Sourcing: YCP leverages vast Asian market expertise to craft tailored sourcing strategies, optimizing savings and growth for clients in Asia.

Our Deliverables
- 1- Opportunity Identification
- Comprehensive analysis identifies cost-saving sourcing opportunities, optimizing supplier performance and procurement strategies across Asia.
- 2- Strategic Sourcing Blueprint
- Proprietary supplier analysis identifies cost-saving opportunities, ensuring optimized sourcing strategies tailored for Asia’s dynamic markets.
- 3- Implementation Roadmap
- Comprehensive sourcing savings roadmap with actionable cost-reduction strategies, supplier analytics, and impact-driven execution frameworks.
- 4- Training & Realization Governance
- In-depth cost analysis and supplier benchmarking to identify and realize sustainable sourcing savings across Asian markets.
What Will You Gain
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Reduced Procurement Spend
Reduce procurement expenses by up to 20% via supplier consolidation
2
Optimized Supplier Terms
Reduce procurement costs by up to 18% via optimized supplier negotiations
3
Volume-Based Discounts Secured
Reduce direct material costs by up to 18% through optimized supplier negotiations.
4
Improved Cost Baselines
Reduce procurement costs by 12% through supplier renegotiation.
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What Our Clients Say About Us
"Johnson Controls Power Solutions engaged YCP in early 2017 for a critical market intelligence project on the demand and technology trends for automotive batteries in targeted Asian countries. Given the high technical complexity and sensitivity of the task, YCP has once again met our very high expectations. Their research enabled us to create a more informed strategy for growth in the Original Equipment channel in Asia. The YCP team performed to the highest level of professionalism and competency in this challenging B2B research project. Their understanding of our specific needs and reliable delivery convinced us that we had chosen the right team for the job. We are pleased with our choice of YCP for this work, and would recommend them for work across Asia."
Director, Strategy & Business Development
Johnson Controls, Inc.
"Our YCP collaboration helped us to craft an expansion path for our company in Asia. YCP provided relevant global lubricant industry insights and delivered in-depth market analysis to support our market entry strategy. YCP's strategic recommendations helped us to make key decisions for our business expansion plan in a targeted Asian country."

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Results Through Expertise: Case Studies
Learn how we help clients build and implement strategies
 that drive sustainable growth in today’s complex business landscape.
Enhancing Syringe Supply Chain Efficiency via Strategic Sourcing
Client
A multi-specialty tertiary care provider
Area
India -- Northern and Eastern regions
Expertise Scope
Supply Chain Turnarounds, Expert Sourcing, Procurement Operations
Project Summary
Utilizing a comprehensive Strategic Sourcing process, the client was able to reduce costs and enhance the efficiency of their syringe supply chain. This netted the client a 10% annual cost reduction, 4% incumbent cost reduction, and successful integration of new suppliers.
Distributor Support Strategy for Lubricants in Vietnam
Client
A Vietnamese lubricant distributor
Area
Vietnam
Expertise Scope
Distributor Assessment, Stakeholder Meetings, Site Visit Reporting
Project Summary
Our team initiated the project with a kick-off meeting in Ho Chi Minh City to align with client's needs and prepare for upcoming interviews. We organized and scheduled site visits and meetings with shortlisted distributors. Following this, we led distributor meetings, providing summary translations. Finally, we delivered a post-site visit report, profiling and prioritizing each distributor based on the interviews.
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Meet Our Experts
Establish industry dominance with our experts and partners

Yuki Ishida
Managing Partner
Nationality: Japanese
Region Coverage:
Asia, North America
Past Experience:
Goldman Sachs

Naoki Arai
Managing Partner
Nationality: Japanese
Region Coverage:
Asia
Past Experience:
Japan Research Institute

Pilar Dieter
Managing Partner
Nationality: American
Region Coverage:
Asia, North America
Past Experience:
Alaris Consulting

Shingo Kasumoto
Managing Partner
Nationality: Japanese
Region Coverage:
Asia
Past Experience:
P&G

Leon Cheng
Partner
Nationality: Chinese
Region Coverage:
Asia, North America, South America
Past Experience:
EAC, DHL

Mehdi Jaouadi
Partner
Nationality: French
Region Coverage:
Asia, Europe, South America
Past Experience:
METRO AG, L'Oréal

Takahiro Okawara
Partner
Nationality: Japanese
Region Coverage:
Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia
Past Experience:
Accenture, Rakuten

Manish Chheda
Managing Partner
Nationality: Indian
Region Coverage:
Asia, Europe
Past Experience:
Strategic Decision Group
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