Unlock wasted funds through your purchasing power potential.

Many organisations are leaking valuable dollars every day by not monitoring their purchases with vendors for contracted goods and services. Most organisations can usually realise significant savings simply by ensuring existing contracts are being utilised to their fullest or putting contracts in place for low value high volume goods and services. These savings can then be used to reinvest in other value adding activities or special projects.

DVE can help you unleash your purchasing power to unlock those valuable savings through a holistic and comprehensive review of your spending habits across your organisation.

How DVE Can Help You

  • Analyse your spend by category to identify quick wins and maximise saving opportunities.
  • Examine your utilisation of existing vendors with agreed pricing.
  • Identify leakage on contracted goods and services
  • Deliver workshops with staff to understand current practices.
  • Validate that vendors are charging you correctly for contracted goods and services.
  • Recommend establishing contracts for high volume spend categories
  • Establish communication and implementation packages to inform staff of the importance of following purchasing processes and procedures.

What You Will Get

  • Summary of Findings
    • Outlining current practices at your institution.
    • Opportunities for quick wins to maximise savings.
    • Process Maps (optional).
  • Recommendations
    • Gap analysis to best practices.
    • Opportunities for improvement tailored to your institution.

We can also offer you a full Implementation plan and provide you with project management and change management support through the roll out phase.

QUT

Shard Lorenzo

DVE Business Solutions provided support to QUT in undertaking a departmental review. Through this work, DVE were found to be highly efficient and attentive with an excellent grasp of the subject matter, in addition to a thorough understanding of the stakeholder groups and context within which the department operates.

Shard Lorenzo
University Registrar, QUT

Kathryn Blyth

DVE has done several projects for us at ACU Student Administration, one major project and several smaller targeted pieces of work. DVE have been engaging and timely in their responses, they are thorough and provided me with regular progress updates. We were able to build a better understanding of our pain points across processes and make significant improvements after the DVE review, analysis and recommendation for improvement process.

Kathryn Blyth
Academic Registrar and Director Student Administration of the Australian Catholic University (ACU)

Tracy Taylor

The experience of working with DVE was not only extremely beneficial in terms of both process and outcomes, but it was very enjoyable as well due to the considered approach taken by their staff. The team’s professionalism, high quality work, and level of service were outstanding.

Tracy Taylor
Deputy Dean, Business School, University of Technology Sydney

Grette Wilkinson

The University of Adelaide

I very much enjoyed working with DVE last year. DVE had a very professional approach and I was updated and kept abreast of all developments in a timely manner. Therefore should an opportunity arise I will be sure to keep DVE in mind.

Grette Wilkinson
Project Manager, MyUni Transform, The University of Adelaide

Madge McGuire

catherine house

I just viewed the HR Quick Tool… It looks great and very user friendly. It will be such a help to our work…really enjoyed working with you…you were very flexible to our needs and at all times very accessible…thank you…

Madge McGuire
Former Chief Executive, Catherine House Inc

Marie Wilson

Univeristy of South Australia

The DVE team ensured our project was kept on track and we achieved our outcomes. We have reduced our costs by a third and increased our volume of research projects by 50%! This has made a substantial difference to the profitability of the unit and ensured ongoing sustainability for the future. DVE’s ability to engage easily with our staff and understand our business needs was an important success factor throughout this project and I would not hesitate in recommending DVE where improvements to efficiency and commercial viability are required.

Prof Marie Wilson
Pro Vice Chancellor (Business and Law), University of South Australia Business School

Maureen Coffey

Well done DVE team! It is rare these days to find people who are genuinely interested in their clients systems with the view of improving.

Maureen Coffey
Business Manager, Barunga Village Inc

Dee Patterson

I have worked with DVE over the past few years on a couple of projects for our Discipline but mainly our Student Management System with development, improvements and maintenance. I have found them extremely professional, knowledgeable and very easy to work with. They do everything in their power to meet your needs and timeframes. The student Management System streamlined and improved our processors for the staff and students.

Dee Patterson
Manager, Discipline Rural Health

Kate Andre

I have been involved in , and managed, a range of educational projects in my years as an academic. Without hesitation I would say that the most successful and least stressful of these projects were those I have undertaken with the support of DVE Solutions.

Kate Andre
Former Associate Professor - Nursing Education, School of Nursing, Midwifery & Postgraduate Medicine, Edith Cowan University

Elizabeth Oran

Univeristy of South Australia

I’ve been at the University for almost ten years – this is the best course I’ve been to and I’ve been to them all!

Elizabeth Oran
Centre Coordinator, Centre for Human Resources Management - School of Management, University of South Australia

Prof Marie Wilson

Univeristy of South Australia

We undertook a change in our service delivery model, and needed support to re-align people and processes to create a student-facing ‘Hub’. Staff needed to be brought together from different Schools to form a new team, and we needed to coordinate this with other service providers in the University. DVE worked to clarify processes and support the new service delivery model. They have contributed to a follow-up evaluation to keep the new Undergraduate Hub on track. Staff and students are delighted with the outcomes

Prof Marie Wilson
Pro Vice Chancellor (Business and Law) University of South Australia Business School

Skye Bennett

Univeristy of South Australia

Support was excellent and great follow up to ensure we were satisfied and comfortable with the tool.

Skye Bennett
Program & Project Coordinator, University of South Australia

Paul Abela

The DVE team have a broad range of very strong skills sets which they implemented whilst supporting ATEM’s Central Region activities. With efficiency, flair and organisational excellence, DVE’s team created an environment for the success of the region.

Paul Abela
Executive Director, Association for Tertiary Education Management (ATEM)

Fay Hanns

Univeristy of South Australia

DVE Solutions have been fantastic to work with, assisting with the process mapping for our unit. The service has been very professional, timely, knowledgeable and insightful. DVE’s understanding of the university and health care sector has been particularly useful.

Fay Hanns
Former Manager Clinical Placement Unit Division of Health Sciences at the University of South Australi

Esther May

Univeristy of South Australia

DVE has provided Project Management, Database Development and Process and Business Process Change Management support to our Division of Health Sciences at the University of South Australia In particular they have helped us improve both strategy and business processes around the clinical education area of our education practices. They have always been extremely end user focused, clear about what will be delivered and reliable in delivering what was agreed.

Esther May
Dean of Clinical Education and Equity, Division of Health Sciences, University of South Australia

Dee Patterson

I have worked with DVE over the past few years on a couple of projects for our Discipline but mainly our Student Management System with development, improvements and maintenance. I have found them extremely professional, knowledgeable and very easy to work with. They do everything in their power to meet your needs and timeframes. The student Management System streamlined and improved our processors for the staff and students

Dee Patterson
Manager, Discipline Rural Health

Kate Andre

Univeristy of South Australia

I have been involved in, and managed, a range of educational projects in my years as an academic. Without hesitation I would say that the most successful and least stressful of these projects were those I have undertaken with the support of DVE Solutions.

Kate Andre
Former Associate Professor - Nursing Education, School of Nursing, Midwifery & Postgraduate Medicine, Edith Cowan University and formally Senior Lecturer at the

Frances Graetz

ClinEdSA

DVE Business Solutions has assisted ClinEdSA in improving a number of systems for health profession student clinical placement administration in South Australia. DVE’s expertise in process mapping has assisted ClinEdSA to clarify the clinical placement recruitment and allocation process, roles and responsibilities of education providers and host organisations, and the management of associated documentation for both high level and operational clinical placement administration…

Frances Graetz
Clinical Placement Unit Coordinator ClinEdSA

Katrina Quinn

Univeristy of South Australia

Working with DVE was a delight. They brought a structured, clear approach and worked collaboratively with our team which was a big plus for us. The project was to build consistency and scalability into our placement system with a target of 150 new placement positions for 2018. This was well and truly achieved with DVE finding our efficiency’s and streamlining our system. By August 2018, we have already far exceeded our target with 260 placement positions.

Katrina Quinn
Manager Strategy and Services (Division Manager). UniSA Business School

Shoaib Gill

Univeristy of South Australia

Great energy, good vibe. An overall fun and fruitful learning experience.

Shoaib Gill
Student Engagement Officer, Business Services, University of South Australia

Hilary Winchester

Emeritus Professor Hilary Winchester on the key elements of DVE’s approach to registration and re-registration projects:
The combination of DVE’s strategic use of knowledgeable and experienced Subject Matter Experts and proven Registration Management Methodology keeps the registration project on track, on task and positioned for success.

Emeritus Professor Hilary Winchester
Director and Principal - Hilary Winchester Consulting

Kathryn Blyth

DVE has done several projects for us at ACU Student Administration, one major project and several smaller targeted pieces of work. DVE have been engaging and timely in their responses, they are thorough and provided me with regular progress updates. We were able to build a better understanding of our pain points across processes and make significant improvements after the DVE review, analysis and recommendation for improvement process.

Kathryn Blyth
Academic Registrar and Director Student Administration of the Australian Catholic University (ACU)

Darren McInnes

Univeristy of South Australia

Congratulatons Di and the team at DVE! Your knowledge, experience and patience make you a clear leader in your field.

Darren McInnes
Former Deputy Director, Marketing, University of South Australia

Pam Ronan

St. Francis de Sales College

There was great communication between the DVE team and the College. We really valued the DVE team’s skills in training our staff to use the new software! We will recommend DVE to others.

Pam Ronan
Principal, St. Francis de Sales College

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