http://www.massin.eu/2006/06/strategic-sourcing-opportunity-assessment/ An European weblog for Purchasing professionals : eSourcing, eProcurement, eMarketplaces, KPIs, tools and methodology, market information... Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:42:09 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.massin.eu/2006/06/strategic-sourcing-opportunity-assessment/comment-page-1/#comment-10 How to develop a Strategic Sourcing approach - Strategic Sourcing | Europe Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:12:33 +0000 http://www.massin.eu/?p=74#comment-10 [...] How to scope purchases | SSOA Part I/IV [...] [...] How to scope purchases | SSOA Part I/IV [...]

]]> http://www.massin.eu/2006/06/strategic-sourcing-opportunity-assessment/comment-page-1/#comment-9 A template for profiling Sourcing Groups - Strategic Sourcing | Europe Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:25:28 +0000 http://www.massin.eu/?p=74#comment-9 [...] In phase I/IV of a Strategic Sourcing Opportunity Assessment (see my HOWTO scope purchases post), you need to distribute your Sourcing Groups into 4 different categories (Standard, Commodity, Strategic, Bottleneck), depending their business impact and their supply-market-complexity. Below is a useful template to categorize each of your Sourcing Groups, based on the famous Porter’s 5 forces model: [...] [...] In phase I/IV of a Strategic Sourcing Opportunity Assessment (see my HOWTO scope purchases post), you need to distribute your Sourcing Groups into 4 different categories (Standard, Commodity, Strategic, Bottleneck), depending their business impact and their supply-market-complexity. Below is a useful template to categorize each of your Sourcing Groups, based on the famous Porter’s 5 forces model: [...]

]]> http://www.massin.eu/2006/06/strategic-sourcing-opportunity-assessment/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Strategic Sourcing | Europe » Blog Archive » Howto define a sourcing strategy and tactics | SSOA Part II/IV Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:43:00 +0000 http://www.massin.eu/?p=74#comment-8 [...] In a former post, I’ve described, briefly but good enough - how to scope the purchases to include in Strategic Sourcing program. This was the Part I/IV of the whole Strategic Sourcing Opportunity Analysis methodology (SSOA) I wanted to share online. Let me now bring you to the second step, starting once you have sorted out your spending into SGs (Sourcing Groups). Purpose, in this phase, is to identify the most probable best sourcing strategy and tactics (approaches) for each SG, based on its position in a “Business-impact / Market complexity matrix”. This work is completed by executing the following 4 actions that you should - of course - conducted in a collaborative way with the key-stakeholders in your company… if you want to succeed the implementation… [...] [...] In a former post, I’ve described, briefly but good enough – how to scope the purchases to include in Strategic Sourcing program. This was the Part I/IV of the whole Strategic Sourcing Opportunity Analysis methodology (SSOA) I wanted to share online. Let me now bring you to the second step, starting once you have sorted out your spending into SGs (Sourcing Groups). Purpose, in this phase, is to identify the most probable best sourcing strategy and tactics (approaches) for each SG, based on its position in a “Business-impact / Market complexity matrix”. This work is completed by executing the following 4 actions that you should – of course – conducted in a collaborative way with the key-stakeholders in your company… if you want to succeed the implementation… [...]

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