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A template to position Sourcing Groups on the Quadrant MatrixBest Practices, Cool tools, Opportunity Assessment, Strategic Sourcing, Template --- 2006 Jean-Philippe Massin, 11,650 views
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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. Sotiris Soulakiotis Says:
July 11th, 2007 at 11:19 amHi 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

December 29th, 2006 at 3:58 pm
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