Category: Sourcing

The Scottish Governement has been developping for years a comprehensive Purchasing toolkit and a full suite of  Procurement tools & templates in order to streamline its Sourcing and Procurement …

A simple but nice benefit tree to summarize the beauty of Strategic Sourcing that I found on the US navy public pages.    

In  July 2014, ATK issued a white paper on Procurement, “Procurement : How to stand out of the crowd”. You’ll find in this paper a nice representation (see below figure …

One of your Business-Unit needs a new service and they are considering delivering it partially because there are some capabilities they don’t have, so they need your help but …

How do you calculate your savings performance? This is a recurring question and I found a nice thread on linkedin "Savings performance calculation".

Browsing the content of this blog as anyone could do, I came to the conclusion that a recap’ of  the 10 articles I posted about ‘strategic sourcing opportunities by …

Next to my previous post, I couldn’t miss to provide you with a compeling – although blank -and well structured template supporting the execution and the reporting of a …

Following is an indicative framework of 130 useful questions when assessing or benchmarking Purchasing processes and organisation performance. When on a consulting assignment, I used to design the “current …

Some time ago, I wrote about the Kirkman company, a Dutch based enterprise specialised on strategic sourcing consulting, not only for Purchasing but for any ‘make or buy’ decision. …

Potential initiatives to improve the way you buy Printing are written on the graph below. Please click on the above-thumbnail to read it.