Procurement Stratgey Course

Developing Strategic Procurement In Your Organization

Overview

  1. Strategic Sourcing/Category Management process overview
    • Baseline
    • What should we be doing
  2. Spend analysis
    • How this supports the strategic sourcing process
    • Understanding sourcing history
    • Understanding price change history
    • Contract compliance issues
  3. Business needs analysis 
    • Stakeholder identification
    • Defining the business needs
    • Aligning options generation and evaluation to the business needs
    • Developing bid evaluation/supplier selection criteria aligned to the business needs
    • Developing contract performance measures (KPI’s) aligned to the business needs
  1. Spend segmentation (Quadrant/Portfolio analysis)
    • Goals and objectives
    • Aligning the thinking with the appropriate practices and behaviours
    • Opportunity analysis
  2. Supplier Evaluation
    • Entry qualifiers
    • Performance qualifiers
    • Evaluation Criteria
  3. Risk Management
    • Risk identification
    • Mitigation strategies
 

Agenda

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Day 1
 
Day 2
 
Topic Format   Topic Format  
8:30 9:00  Introductions & overview to Strategic Sourcing/Category management Introduction   Spend segmentation - Goals & objectives Presentation
9:00 9:30 Strategic Sourcing - Baseline Presentation   Spend segmentation - Aligning the thinking with the appropriate practices & behaviours Presentation
9:30 10:00 Strategic Sourcing - What should we be doing? Presentation   Spend segmentation - Opportunity analysis Presentation
10:00 10:15 Break       Break    
10:15 11:15 Spend analysis - How spend analysis supports strategic sourcing Presentation   Cost Management - Cost improvement Presentation
11:15 12:15 Spend analysis - Understanding sourcing history Presentation   Cost Management - Cost containment Presentation
12:15 12:45 Spend analysis - Understanding price change history Presentation   Cost Management - Measurement & reporting Presentation
12:45 13:15 Lunch       Lunch    
13:15 13:45 Spend analysis - Contract compliance issues Presentation   Risk Management - Risk identification Presentation
13:45 14:30 Business needs analysis - stakeholder identification Presentation   Risk Management - Mitigation strategies Presentation
14:30 15:00 Business needs analysis - Defining the business needs Presentation   Recap - Questions & Answers Q & A
15:00 15:15 Break       Break    
15:15 15:45 Business needs analysis - Aligning options generation & evaluation to the business needs Presentation   Workshop - Practical exercise Workshop
15:45 16:15 Business needs analysis - Developing bid evaluation/supplier selection criteria Presentation  
16:15 16:45 Business needs analysis - Developing contract performance measures Presentation   Wrap up close out

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