Full advisory services that include enablement and planning design, implementation services and solutions, and operational process management.
Strategic Sourcing is an organizational function and a practice that evaluates, aligns and manages the organization sourcing framework and corresponding activities for the purpose of enabling business outcomes.
Generally, it includes:
- understanding the business objectives;
- understanding of current spend;
- understanding of the supply base;
- understanding and quantifying total cost;
- building partnerships with supply base;
- relationships governance as an extension of corporate governance;
- relationship strategic management ;
- implementing of integrated internal/external risk frameworks;
- development of sourcing strategies;
- negotiation with suppliers;
- implementation of new supply structure; and
- full life cycle contract management.
SRS offers the full range of strategic sourcing and management services – planning and enablement, implementation services through operational process management.
Planning
- Strategic Sourcing Capability and Risk Assessment
- Strategic sourcing organization design and implementation
- Demand and Supply Strategic Planning
- Policy development
- Project Planning and Strategic Management
- Collaborative Sourcing, Consultations, Facilitation & Convergence
- Market Research, trends analysis and environmental scans
- Business Case Development
- TB Submissions
- Dynamic Governance & Risk Management Model – SRS dGAPM® implementation design
Implementation Services
- Policy implementation and management
- Strategic sourcing function design, charter development and establishment and/or realignment
- Sourcing and Procurement of Solutions, Products and Services
- CARB risk management framework implementation
- Outcome/results management
- User surveys
Planning
- Spend Management Planning
- Commodity acquisition service design
- Complex procurements service design
Implementation services
- Open Access Solutions deployment Management (www.fedbid.com ; www.sourcex.ca ; www.rfpblaster.com )
- Acquisition service detail planning and initial set up
- Transition & Change management
- Supplier & Buyer training
- Acquisition transaction management
- Supply base promotion
- Supply base management.
- HR management
- Helping clients develop/define procurement scope & strategy
- RFP/SA Requirements definition, documents, assessment, etc.
- RPF/SA document development (Pricing Templates, Evaluation and Selection Plans)
- Evaluation Services (Preparation, Training, Facilitation, etc.)
- Procurement evaluation tools, desktop RFP Development, RFP Evaluation, etc.
- Debriefing support, specialized reporting, etc.
- Strategic Sourcing Function Operations Management
- Benchmarking
- Account management and Relationships management
- Change Management
- Dynamic governance establishment and management
- Contract Management
