About Us
Stephen Matthews and Associates Limited
Stephen Matthews and Associates Limited
Founder Stephen Matthews
SMA has been incorporated since 2001. SMA is an SME offering niche consulting and managed services to public and private sector clients who require category strategy definition, sourcing model development, procurement execution, contract management optimisation and supplier relationship management strategies. The consultancy draws together teams of consultants with many years of experience of working together in helping clients deliver their strategic objectives.
SMA Consulting has enabled global clients in the oil & gas, healthcare, finance and retail industry sectors as well as a number of UK central government departments and agencies to achieve their business objectives through the procurement and deployment of IT systems including cloud-based solutions for infrastructure, platform and software applications to enable delivery of line of business processes.
Clients engage Stephen Matthews & Associates for the provision of consultancy and managed services typically spanning IT market and commercial intelligence; generation of IT sourcing strategies and the delivery of large scale and complex procurement projects for IT commodities and services.
SMA has a specialist capability that programme manages the design, build and deployment of sourcing, contract, supplier management and PTP solutions for its clients leveraging it partner network
Through its sister company Contract Management Solutions (CMS) Limited, Stephen Matthews & Associates is able to extend its managed services offer to clients throughout the full contract lifecycle with tools and services that provide effective compliance management and optimisation in critical IT contracts.
Years operating in public and private sector
major category management and sourcing projects successfully delivered for clients
major sourcing and procurement technology solutions deployed for clients
hours of commercial and programme management experience
cost reductions delivered for clients