Strategic Sourcing Europe

Late July 09, Wal-Mart announced plans to develop a worldwide sustainable product index, which is expected to lead to higher quality, lower costs and measure the sustainability of products and help customers, live better in the 21st century. This index will be build out of a 3 steps program, starting by the assessment of their 100 000 supplier base with a Supplier Sustainability Assessment.

The Scottish Governement has developped a comprehensive Purchasing toolkit and a full suite of Strategic Sourcing templates in order to streamline its Sourcing and Procurement processes. Although devoted to the Public sector Buyers, most of the templates are re-usable by Private-sector Buyers. The whole toolkit can be found on the Scottish Government website. Below is [...]

In response to Charles’ Post and question mark a couple of weeks ago, indeed Ariba Exchange is definitly the “next hot destination for Sourcing Professional”. Launched softly in October, Ariba Exchange is the first and unique online community to facilitate discussions among customers, prospects and Ariba’s subject matter experts (SME), embedding videos, polls, group rss [...]

Below are some interesting links providing screenshots of  Purchasing Management Dashboards (Sourcing, Procurement, Commodities…) as well as KPIs descriptions. Commodity Supplier Management Dashboard | Purchasing Dashboard Procurement Management Dashboard | Purchasing KPI Dashboard Purchasing KPIs for Dashboard and Reporting – 1 Management Dashboard Dashboard Purchasing KPIs – 2

Browsing the content of this blog as anyone could do, I came to the conclusion that a recap’ of  the 10 articles I posted about ‘strategic sourcing opportunities by commodity’ could be useful. Hoping this helps. Strategic Sourcing Opportunities Part I: Stationary Strategic Sourcing Opportunities Part II: Fax Machines Strategic Sourcing Opportunities Part III: Travel [...]

Next to my previous post, I couldn’t miss to provide you with a compeling – although blank -and well structured template supporting the execution and the reporting of a Purchasing Assessment Assignment. A cool tool, very useful as well for benchmarking  with best-in-class practices. You can download this 52 page document here: sourcing-assessment.pdf You’ll discover how [...]

Following is an indicative framework of 130 useful questions when assessing or benchmarking Purchasing processes and organisation performance. When on a consulting assignment, I used to design the “current state analysis” stage by ensuring I’ll get answers to most of those questions. 1. What is your main means of purchasing office supplies? 2. What application [...]

If you still feel uncomfortable deciding or not to go auction, you should use the eAuction Decision Tool, provided by OGC, in order to receive assistance in evaluating whether an eAuction is suitable for an intended procurement. To access the eAuction Decision Tool click the link below and, if prompted, click on the enable macros [...]

ESCO Corporation is a global group of companies that manufactures engineered metal parts and components for industrial applications. You will find here a pdf form that ESCO is using to evaluate its key suppliers. Simple but quite extensive. It might gives you good new ideas if you have any plan to monitor more closely your [...]

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23 key considerations when reviewing your way of buying Electricity are listed on the graph below. Click to read

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18 Opportunities to improve the way you buy your fax/copier-machines are listed on the graph below. Click to read the graph