Sourcing Teams Toolkit

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More Uses of the Sourcing Teams Toolkit:

  • Establish that your operation complies; influences strategic third party category plans and purchasing decisions through analysis, Relationship Building and securing alignment with Sourcing Teams and Key Stakeholders.

  • Establish that your project complies; influences strategic third party category plans and purchasing decisions through analysis, Relationship Building and securing alignment with Sourcing Teams and Key Stakeholders.

  • Foster good teamwork between Contracting Operations and Strategic Sourcing Teams, ensuring good Process Design and controls, with focus on Customer Service and positive engagement scores.

  • Manage work with recruiting managers to develop and maintain user dashboards that display real time and ON Demand KPIs for the recruiting and Sourcing Teams.

  • Confirm your project complies; influences strategic third party category plans and purchasing decisions through analysis, Relationship Building and securing alignment with Sourcing Teams and Key Stakeholders.

  • Support development and implementation of the sourcing strategies to achieve lowest total cost, improve Working Capital, achieve On Time Delivery, improve Cycle Time, and ensure early supplier involvement in Product Development.

  • Set sourcing strategy based on overall procurement objectives, Customer Needs, supply market dynamics, technological changes in the marketplace and other relevant factors derived from extensive research.

  • Establish E Business (Procure To Pay), diversity, environmental, and Strategic Sourcing Cost Reduction Strategies to continually improve category effectiveness and efficiencies.

  • Manage and lead the execution of existing Managed Services Contract management, Change Control and governance activities for all active contracts, in partnership and support from partnering legal, sourcing and other applicable support teams.

  • Drive negotiation and close deals in collaboration with Enterprise Sales team, Customer Success Managers and Sourcing team.

  • Secure that your organization complies; directs the development of IT Sourcing strategy and provides executive oversight for strategic vendor and Partner Relationship Management.

  • Secure that your design recommends and justifies Strategic Sourcing initiatives by using Data Mining tools to conduct Spend Analysis, prepare supporting reports/spreadsheets and comparisons.

  • Drive Sourcing Teams: operational and Spend Analysis, development and execution of annual sourcing strategies, vendor negotiations, vendor Performance Management and operational support.

  • Anticipate and meet the evolving talent needs of your organization through proactive sourcing using a headhunting mindset and interviewing using an executive recruiter approach.

  • Establish that your organization leads the identification and negotiation of strategic technology partnerships and contributes to enterprise sourcing contracts to achieve broad business benefit and Competitive Advantage.

  • Confirm your corporation recommends and justifies Strategic Sourcing initiatives by using Data Mining tools to conduct Spend Analysis, prepare supporting reports/spreadsheets and comparisons.

  • Maintain and improve the procurement system and process used to track spending activity, current projects and savings associated with individual sourcing programs.

  • Manage and direct the sourcing activities consistent with near term requirements for financial and non Financial Performance, Regulatory Compliance and long term strategic requirements.

  • Ensure alignment of the materials sourcing and supply strategy with Business Strategies together with multi functional stakeholders (Operations, Finance, Commercial and Marketing).

  • AudIT Sourcing Teams: proactive leadership and management with cross functional partners to effectively develop sophisticated spend analytics resulting in sourcing waves that drive savings through Strategic Sourcing initiatives.

  • Utilize Strategic Sourcing Process when appropriate to test pricing in the supply market and establish best cost contracts (Total Cost of Ownership).

  • Assure visibility of project sourcing and procurement requirements to, with tracking of workflow in alignment with External Labor Management, Legal and Procurement policies and practices.

  • Arrange that your project leads the identification and negotiation of strategic technology partnerships and contributes to enterprise sourcing contracts to achieve broad business benefit and Competitive Advantage.

  • Establish that your organization implements Cost Reduction opportunities by employing techniques of price/cost analysis, negotiations, Strategic Sourcing and Value Engineering.

  • Ensure you overhaul; lead Strategic Sourcing activity for assigned category portfolio identifying opportunities for Cost Reductions or process enhancements.

  • Supervise Sourcing Teams: mentor and lead assigned categories to support sourcing and Supplier Management while driving Cost Savings and Continuous Improvement initiatives.

  • Pilot Sourcing Teams: in conjunction with the product team; plan, manage, and coordinate all activities related to the sourcing and procurement of necessary materials and supplies needed to meet the changing levels of product demand.

  • Arrange that your planning engages proactively with Business Unit customers on Strategic Sourcing goals, category strategies, initiatives, and savings targets.

  • Govern Sourcing Teams: recruitment and selection anticipate and address talent needs through Strategic Planning, sourcing and development of Human Capital necessary to support organizational goals.

  • Standardize Sourcing Teams: plan and manage the publishing calendar, social objectives, messaging, writing of posts, sourcing or creating the visual images for posts, aligning to the overall product and Marketing Plan.

  • Collaborate with your Engineering teams to design and implement an integration framework, allowing for a smooth transition to different blockchain networks.

  • Increase coverage of Automated Testing by identifying opportunities to automate existing Test Plans and creating automated system level Test Plans.

 

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Sourcing Teams Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step Work Plans and maturity diagnostics for any Sourcing Teams related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Sourcing Teams specific requirements:


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Sourcing Teams Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.

Organized in a Data Driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…

  • Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation

Then find your goals...


STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 999 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of Process Design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Sourcing Teams improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:

  1. What methods are feasible and acceptable to estimate the impact of reforms?

  2. How do you quantify and qualify impacts?

  3. What evidence is there and what is measured?

  4. Are you satisfied with your current role? If not, what is missing from it?

  5. What are the gaps in your knowledge and experience?

  6. What are the operational costs after Sourcing Teams deployment?

  7. Do you need to avoid or amend any Sourcing Teams activities?

  8. Is the scope of Sourcing Teams defined?

  9. Who do you report Sourcing Teams results to?

  10. What are your Sourcing Teams processes?


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:

  • The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Sourcing Teams book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

Your Sourcing Teams self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:

  • The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Sourcing Teams Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Sourcing Teams areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:

    • Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix
    • Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Sourcing Teams Self-Assessment
    • Is secure: Ensures offline Data Protection of your Self-Assessment results
    • Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:

 

STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Sourcing TeaMs Projects with the 62 implementation resources:

  • 62 step-by-step Sourcing TeaMs Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Sourcing TeaMs Project requirements and success criteria:

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Cost Management Plan: Eac -estimate at completion, what is the total job expected to cost?

  2. Activity Cost Estimates: In which phase of the Acquisition Process cycle does source qualifications reside?

  3. Project Scope Statement: Will all Sourcing TeaMs Project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?

  4. Closing Process Group: Did the Sourcing TeaMs Project team have enough people to execute the Sourcing TeaMs Project plan?

  5. Source Selection Criteria: What are the guidelines regarding award without considerations?

  6. Scope Management Plan: Are Corrective Actions taken when actual results are substantially different from detailed Sourcing TeaMs Project plan (variances)?

  7. Initiating Process Group: During which stage of Risk planning are risks prioritized based on probability and impact?

  8. Cost Management Plan: Is your organization certified as a supplier, wholesaler, regular dealer, or manufacturer of corresponding products/supplies?

  9. Procurement Audit: Was a formal review of tenders received undertaken?

  10. Activity Cost Estimates: What procedures are put in place regarding bidding and cost comparisons, if any?

 
Step-by-step and complete Sourcing TeaMs Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


2.0 Planning Process Group:


3.0 Executing Process Group:

  • 3.1 Team Member Status Report
  • 3.2 Change Request
  • 3.3 Change Log
  • 3.4 Decision Log
  • 3.5 Quality Audit
  • 3.6 Team Directory
  • 3.7 Team Operating Agreement
  • 3.8 Team Performance Assessment
  • 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment
  • 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:

  • 4.1 Sourcing TeaMs Project Performance Report
  • 4.2 Variance Analysis
  • 4.3 Earned Value Status
  • 4.4 Risk Audit
  • 4.5 Contractor Status Report
  • 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:

  • 5.1 Procurement Audit
  • 5.2 Contract Close-Out
  • 5.3 Sourcing TeaMs Project or Phase Close-Out
  • 5.4 Lessons Learned

 

Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Sourcing TeaMs Project with this in-depth Sourcing Teams Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Sourcing TeaMs Projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices
  • Implement evidence-based Best Practice strategies aligned with overall goals
  • Integrate recent advances in Sourcing Teams and put Process Design strategies into practice according to Best Practice guidelines

Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Sourcing Teams investments work better.

This Sourcing Teams All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

 

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.