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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:


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    1. Supply Excellence » Profiling Without the Controversy Says:

      [...] I came across a compelling framework on the Strategic Sourcing Europe blog for profiling your spending into four distinct categories: standard, commodity, strategic, and bottleneck. Based on Michael Porter’s five forces model, the framework segments spend categories based on their business impact and their supply market complexity. The graphical framework also provides recommended supplier engagement and relationship management approaches for each segment. [...]

    2. 5 questions to determine a SG’s Business Impact - Strategic Sourcing | Europe Says:

      [...] times ago, I’ve posted on this blog a template of a tool I used to position a Sourcing Group (SG) in the CSSB quadrant matrix (Commodity – Strategic – Standard – [...]

    3. 5 questions to determine a SG Market Complexity - Strategic Sourcing | Europe Says:

      [...] times ago, I’ve posted in this blog a template of the tool I used to position a Sourcing Group(SG) in the CSSB matrix (Commodity – Strategic – Standard – [...]

    4. The Strategic Sourcing Matrix quadrants’ characteristics - Strategic Sourcing | Europe Says:

      [...] time ago, I’ve published a template to help you out positioning a SG (Sourcing Group) into the Strategic Sourcing’s 4-quadrant [...]


    One Response to “A template to position Sourcing Groups on the Quadrant Matrix”

    1. 1. Sotiris Soulakiotis Says:

      Hi Jean Philippe,

      Just a note to let you know that I used your template and linked to while answering a query on LinkedIn.
      Everything’s been properly referenced though.

      Good work,

      Sotiris

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