Day-to-Day Procurement Processes Require Operational Excellence

The day to day procurement process is a lot more complex than meets the eye. Breakdowns in information can occur or data exchanges can create longer requisition to delivery cycle times. All of this can frustrate end user, not to mention wasting time and money. Even worse, hard won contract pricing can be bypassed and supplier performance can suffer.

We believe focusing on operational excellence is the key, especially when processes can touch every one of your employees. Even a small percentage of errors can create an enormous organization drain and potentially lost production.

Our procurement outsourcing services cover the entire source to settle process:

• Tactical RFx Management – Simplifies tactical sourcing execution, supplier discovery, supplier response and award to reduce requisition-to-order cycle time by up to 30%. This can really add up because between 10% and 20% of spend is typically ad-hoc with no identified source of supply.

• Operational Procurement – With dedicated buyer agents, we manage every order to ensure accurate sources of supply, application of procurement policies and full support of change orders and confirmations.

• Expediting – Following up on deliveries and order to ensure operational continuity and improved planning, our support team and automated notification capabilities ensure service level and reduce errors.

• Catalogue Management – We do the heavy lifting in working with your supplier base to ensure validation, quality descriptions and follow-up activities occur seamlessly and transparently to you. All your Buyers need to do in approve pristine, correctly formatted catalogues and price files.

• Supplier Information Management – We support your oprganisation from the initial outreach to your suppliers to follow, data verification and support, thus enabling you to focus on what is most important: Category Management and Supplier Performance