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How do you calculate your savings performance? This is a recurring question and I found a nice thread on linkedin “Savings performance calculation”.
Leveraging the article “Dashboard leads global procurement to success” from Purchasing.com, think about using those 6 obvious KPIs to generate 10-12% savings on appropriate direct commodities: Delivery lead time,
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 [...]
Organizations are increasingly delegating their information technology (IT) intensive business activities to external service providers to take advantage of the rapid evolution of the global telecommunications infrastructure and emerging information and communication technologies (ICT) capabilities. The business processes being outsourced range from routine and non-critical tasks, which are resource intensive and operational, to strategic processes [...]
Find attached here how-to-write-an-rfp-s, an AT-Kearney POV and 5 tips to write an RFP. Nothing revolutionary in this article published in june 2006 but it is always good to come back to basics with ATK.
If you are wondering how good you are in managing your purchasing department performance, this post might be of some interest. Below you will find listed 8 questions – and the associated set of 4 possible answers from 1 to 4, 1 being the worse answer and 4 the best – I use [...]
I would like first to congrat Michael Lamoureux for his “Top Three Series” initiative, “asking professionals he knows to name their top 3 critical issues in the sourcing / procurement / supply chain space and discuss why the issue is important, what a company can do about it, and what could happen if it’s not [...]
In a previous post, I have defined the 7 steps of a robust strategic sourcing methodology (SSM). My intention is now to provide more details about each step. Step 1 – profiling (or qualifying) a Sourcing Group (SG) – comes first: it’s all about understanding the SG characteristics, which is quite an important stage as [...]
If you are about to renew a contract or even better in your way for running a strategic sourcing methodology, you’ll have to assess the strenghtes and weaknesses of your current contract not only from a specification perspective but as well from a pricing perspective. Below are my top 10 pricing-related questions to be answered [...]
OGC did a tremendous job detailing and drawing, online and publically, its 15-step procurement process, here. Though it is dedicated to Public Procurement purposes, I consider this site as a Must to browse: it is clear, bold and sharp. A reference to bookmark.
I found those practices – detailed in an article published by www.metricstream.com , a company which can help you managing your suppliers closer and more efficiently – pragmatic and essential to my point of view. On the other hand, they definitely connect to Green Procurement as they support an effective supplier performance control. That’s [...]
Some 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 – Bottleneck). May I remind you that this CSSB matrix enables to determine the strategy to apply and consequently the top tactics to use.
Some 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 – Bottleneck). As you – may – know, this CSSB matrix enables to determine which strategy to apply and consequently which major tactics to [...]
Below is a basic list where you can find and search for the information you need when qualifying a Sourcing Group: |
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