In phase I/IV of a Strategic Sourcing Opportunity Assessment (see my HOWTO scope purchases post), you need to distribute your Sourcing Groups into 4 different categories (Standard, Commodity, Strategic, Bottleneck), depending their business impact and their supply-market-complexity. Below is a useful template to categorize each of your Sourcing Groups, based on the famous Porter’s 5 forces model:
Hi Jean Philippe,
Just a note to let you know that I used your template and linked to while answering a query on LinkedIn.
Everything’s been properly referenced though.
Good work,
Sotiris
Request permission to use your excellent template/diagran :”Sourcing Groups on the Quadrant Matrix” in a webinar I am preparing for Lorman. With attribution, of course!
I give you permission. Thank you for your comment and reading
Ok for me