Strategic Sourcing Europe

How do you calculate your savings performance? This is a recurring question and I found a nice thread on linkedin “Savings performance calculation”.

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 an [...]

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

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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 to:

Make [...]

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 do you currently utilize [...]

Some time ago, I wrote about the Kirkman company, a Dutch based enterprise specialised on strategic sourcing consulting, not only for Purchasing but for any ‘make or buy’ decision. If the concept looks simple, execution is much harder. It’s never easy to ‘cut your own arm’, to fire your own staff, to outsource a piece [...]

Potential initiatives to improve the way you buy Printing are written on the graph below.

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Potential appropriate initiatives to improve the way you buy MRO are unveiled on the graph below.

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Kirkman. Kirkman Company to be precise. Interpellating name, don’t you think?
No, don’t be wrong, this is nothing related to the Start Treck series or James Kirk’s adventures, sorry for the fans. Nothing related neither to the Scottish Church (i.e. the english root meaning of Kirk). So what, huh?
Here is the explanation: “The name ‘Kirkman’ is [...]

Browsing the web to find relevant information or service providers is a powerful method but time consuming still. Based on this straightforward observation, let me present you a company called S4S, offering a broad range of strategic and operational sourcing services. Their website is well done, their offering compelling and the information provided proves at [...]

23 new opportunities, this time in the logistic and distribution field, on the graph below.

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16 ideas to improve the way you buy chemicals, on the exhibit attached.

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PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) just released the outcome of their new survey (2007) about outsourcing, based on US/UK client mainly . Straightforward, clear, worth reading I feel. If the tag-line is nothing surprising at all (we all recognise that collaboration is more powerful than simple ordering), the dimensions of the analysis executed by Pat McArdle and his [...]

15 Opportunities listed there. Feel free to comment and report other good potentials.

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