Integrating with suppliers is a critical piece of the supply chain puzzle. To be effective, companies need to integrate with consortiums and trading partners. Our services in this area include supply planning, negotiating cost, outsourcing and automating procurement.

Sourcing and Procurement involves developing system and collaborative approaches to products-and-services sourcing — using volume, supplier relationships and technology to dramatically reduce external spend, while improving quality and supplier performance. Activities in this arena include: Sourcing diagnostics; strategic sourcing; e-sourcing; supplier management; e-procurement; procurement process design; and, procurement organizational design.

Key business issues

• Supplier cost reduction;
• Internal process cost reduction.

Our solutions include:

Category Prints  Category Prints seek to provide a single library of sourcing optimal practices, links to optimal programs, competitive reference points, an overview of the supply market overview. Each Category Print summarizes the sourcing environment and describes the sourcing techniques that enable the sourcing and procurement processes. These provide us with the ability to dramatically reduce the time to achieve savings.

Procurement Best Practice Framework (5 Stages Model)  The Procurement Best Practices Framework is comprised of the 5 Stages Model, which is based on critical components of the procurement organization. This is to be used in conjunction with the Procurement Best Practices Framework Diagnostic.

"Always On" e-Sourcing Platform  The Always On solution provides a workbench for spend analysis, collaboration, e-rfx, bid optimization and contract management.