Strategic Sourcing Europe

Browsing consulting websites about Strategic Sourcing, I found this week this one, from Gartner. “They can help you no matter what phase you’re in!” they say:

1. Sourcing Strategy: Take a good look at your enterprise and analyze the risks and benefits of sourcing.
2. Evaluation & Selection: Define business requirements and identify partners that can meet your needs.
3. Contract Development: Structure a partnership with defined service levels and payment models.
4. Sourcing Management: Monitor your relationship and react to change effectively.

Gartner is offering to help you achieving different set of objectives as follow:

• Improve your productivity,
• Reduce or Contain Costs,
• Optimize Post-Merger or Acquisition integration,
• Select a technology provider,
• Re-bid or Re-negotiate,
• Evaluate Your Deal,
• Improve your Relationship with your core-suppliers.

What I appreciated is that for each of those objectives, Gartner has described straightforward (meaning readable!) benefits and approach.
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