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Why Own The Procurement Self-Assessment?

The Procurement Self-Assessment will make you a Procurement domain expert by:

Reducing the effort in the Procurement work to be done to get problems solved
Ensuring that plans of action include every Procurement task and that every Procurement outcome is in place
Saving time investigating strategic and tactical options and ensuring Procurement opportunity costs are low
Delivering tailored Procurement advise instantly with structured going-forward plans

All the tools you need to an in-depth Procurement Self-Assessment. Featuring 639 new and updated case-based criteria, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Procurement improvements can be made.

What Is In The Procurement Self-Assessment?

The Procurement Complete Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard

Ensures you don't miss anything: 639 criteria in 7 RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain) steps with easy and quick navigating and answering for 1 or up to 10 participants
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 Procurement Self-Assessment
Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results
Dynamically generated projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next

The Procurement Complete Self Assessment eBook version of the book in print

Provides a convenient way to distribute and share among the participants to prepare and discuss the Self-Assessment

In using the Self-Assessment you will be better able to:

Diagnose Procurement 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 Procurement and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines

Assess And Define Procurement With This Procurement Self Assessment. Sample Questions From The Complete, 639 Criteria, Self-Assessment:

Recognize Criterion: When a Procurement manager recognizes a problem, what options are available?
Define Criterion: Does Procurement include applications and information with regulatory compliance significance (or other contractual conditions that must be formally complied with) in a new or unique manner for which no approved security requirements, templates or design models exist?
Measure Criterion: Meeting the challenge: are missed Procurement opportunities costing us money?
Analyze Criterion: What other organizational variables, such as reward systems or communication systems, affect the performance of this Procurement process?
Improve Criterion: At what point will vulnerability assessments be performed once Procurement is put into production (e.g., ongoing Risk Management after implementation)?
Control Criterion: In the case of a Procurement project, the criteria for the audit derive from implementation objectives. an audit of a Procurement project involves assessing whether the recommendations outlined for implementation have been met. in other words, can we track that any Procurement project is implemented as planned, and is it working?
Sustain Criterion: What are your most important goals for the strategic Procurement objectives?

Cost/Benefit Analysis; Procurement Self-Assessment Justification And Approval Tools:

Purchasing a The Art of Service Self Assessment will spur new ideas, fast track project strategy and advance your professional skills. We’ve developed a set of criteria that will aid in gaining approval and give you the ability to validate and review your Self-Assessment investment:

Excluding hired consultants and advisors from top management consulting firms, internal Procurement Self-Assessment work is typically undertaken by senior level positions with titles such as Enterprise Architect, Business Process Architects, Business Process Re-engineering Specialists and Business Architects.

Statistics according to Glassdoor and Indeed tell these positions receive an average basic pay of $125,000. Daily rates of basic pay are computed by dividing an employee's annual pay by 260 days. The daily salary is then derived by dividing the annual salary of $125,000 by 260 days = a daily rate of $480.
Top management consulting firms start at $2,000 a day, with rates typically charged up to 40 hours per week.

For a fraction of this the Self-Assessment will make you a Procurement domain authority.

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?'

For more than twenty years, The Art of Service's Self-Assessments empower people who can do just that - whether their title is marketer, entrepreneur, manager, salesperson, consultant, business process manager, executive assistant, IT Manager, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are people who watch the process as it happens, and ask the right questions to make the process work better.