Tag: strategic sourcing

Procurement Pitfalls

Avoiding 7 Strategic Procurement Pitfalls

Strategic Procurement offers major supply chain savings, but only when done right. We’ve compiled the 7 most common pitfalls we see in Strategic Procurement deployments, along with the strategies we employ to help our client partners avoid them….

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Price Hikes

Mitigating Supplier Price Increases

Ready to move from tactical firefighting to strategic advantage? Price hikes are hitting businesses everywhere, but how we respond makes all the difference. We help our client partners develop and install Strategic Sourcing programs that leverage total spend, reduce costs, and protect supply for the long term….

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Strategic Sourcing

Category Management

We recently partnered with a leading industrial components provider to reduce costs by developing and institutionalizing a rigorous Strategic Sourcing process. In the first spend category, we immediately revealed a 13% to 16% cost reduction opportunity. We’ll soon address major spend categories representing 40% of our client’s annual COGS….

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