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The Beautiful Complexity of Procurement Planning

The Good Spending

Our colleagues tend to accept the business demand for granted and not try to understand or, God forbid, challenge it. When discussing value generation , we mainly mention category management, stakeholder relationships, and supplier innovation. The lion's share of procurement value could be created in the planning stage.

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Maximizing Procurement Team Performance with the Belbin Team Role Theory

The Good Spending

Here we assume that the interaction with end-users will happen via the Procurement Service Desk in Middle Office, the sourcing function will reside in Front Office alongside the Category Management and Front Office will also include the Strategy, Analytics, and Functional Development capabilities.

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Value - Procurement Framework in the Context of Servitization

The Good Spending

Once you map a service you're about to source in any of the four proposed quadrants, you may identify the value promise and procurement strategy, as presented below. Yet another tool for your sourcing and category management to consider applying.

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Procurement: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility!

Supply Chain Game Changer

With the promise of future business awards Procurement is largely responsible for finding and qualifying potential new suppliers. Once there is a pool of suppliers Procurement conducts and leads the quotation and supplier selection process culminating in the award of business.

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5 steps for Procurement to impact on financial results

Claritum

The following diagram shows the relationships that should exist between suppliers, users and Category Managers. Later in this article we will cover the areas that Procurement, with the noise removed, is now able to focus on. Address procurment strategy. all impact on your business. Read the article at claritum.com.

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5 steps for Procurement to impact on financial results

Claritum

The following diagram shows the relationships that should exist between suppliers, users and Category Managers. Later in this article we will cover the areas that Procurement, with the noise removed, is now able to focus on. Step 2 Address Procurement Strategy.

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Procurement as a strategic advisory resource

Claritum

Procurement needs to transform and continue to transform to align to the business. Procurement has to move away from a transaction based function and become an advisory resource. The Category Manager needs to become more integrated into key business processes and more consultative in nature.