Our managed competency assessment program measures the capability of your procurement team against 25 procurement competency or 15 negotiation competency areas. Using self-assessment, discussion and interviews, we determine what changes will be required to develop your team’s skills and practices to make strategic procurement work for your organization.

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This diagnostic process examines the key aspects of how procurement currently works in your organization. We assess the gap between where you are and a position of best-practice strategic procurement based upon what leading companies are doing, and your readiness for making the transition. This functional baseline becomes a basis to determine future structure, strategy and objectives and to identify the specific changes needed for procurement transformation.

Working from our diagnostic findings and with an appreciation of the level of procurement intervention required, we help you to develop a program for change for your organization.

This stage covers all the key enabling factors and includes supply base segmentation and opportunity analysis to determine those suppliers who are important.

We establish priorities for supplier- and category-based projects that will deliver the greatest impact in working towards your functional and organizational goals.

We also lay the foundations for a short- to medium-term deployment program, setting the future strategy, aims, objectives for the function, and the required governance structure, based upon our 5P governance framework.

Having determined the required intervention, we provide the core components of strategic procurement transformation. This includes capability development through our high-impact, inspirational classroom training drawing on our Category Management, SRM, Negotiation and Buyer’s Toolkit programs.

These programs will equip your team with access to best-practice processes, toolkits with the option to access our digital e-learning resources, such as 5i® Online and Red Sheet® Online. We can help you implement your transformation roadmap and manage the program to achieve your vision across your company.

Your transition to a strategic approach to procurement can yield staggering outcomes – including a dramatic cost reduction, reduced risk, unlocking supply base value and innovation. But these are only possible with a quality implementation of a procurement transformation program.

Ensuring that your program realizes, and potentially even exceeds, its objectives for your organization is not something that can be left to chance – it requires a robust governance approach. We work with you to ensure that our 5P Governance framework is firmly embedded in your cross-functional teams, to cement long-term compliance with your new arrangements.

We also support the change program with senior and executive coaching to focus efforts on the game-changing outcomes rather than for small, incremental improvements.

Finally, we help you to measure how far you have come by equipping you with the tools to conduct benefits tracking, measurement and a means to communicate your success stories to contribute to winning ongoing support for the new procurement function.