Whatever challenge you may be facing, our experts can help create a strategic procurement transformation plan, to facilitate growth and positive change in your organisation.
Successful strategic procurement transformation takes a holistic look at your procurement and supply chain functions, providing a blueprint of your operating model.
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Ryan is an MCIPS qualified procurement professional with a wealth of private and public sector experience across various categories, including Estates, FM, Professional Services and Construction.
By engaging eXceeding to conduct a holistic review we were able to develop a coherent corporate strategy across the adi group of companies that took advantage of our growing market position. The savings realised and delivered by eXceeding has paid their fees many many times over. We have subsequently engaged them on further projects. Through their professional and methodical practices, we were able to reduce the number of suppliers and develop win-win commercial arrangements with key supplier partners. The quality of eXceeding’s team and their flexible approach made it easy for adi to work with them and to achieve our goals.
Girlguiding identified that resource availability would impact upon our ability to effectively deliver, at pace, two concurrent complex and critical IT procurement projects. Based upon recommendation, and following a competitive supplier review, we selected eXceeding to partner with us to define, manage and deliver the professional services necessary to meet the Girlguiding requirements. Working with eXceeding was an outstanding collaborative experience, although eXceeding assumed complete responsibility for the procurement workstreams, we were always clearly and continuously informed of progress, with the team ensuring that the strategic and tactical requirements of Girlguiding remained central to the project. We would not hesitate in using the services of eXceeding again, they delivered what they promised, on time and in a highly cost-effective manner.
The major plus point from an Aspall perspective was that using eXceeding ensured that there was continual momentum driving the project forward.
I would have no hesitation in recommending eXceeding to another business or using them again for any future projects.
Identifying the need for a new procurement strategy is just the first stage of your journey.
Without an organisation-wide strategic approach to procurement, there may be a lack of understanding around purchasing activities; which leads to business units procuring on their own terms, inefficient or admin-heavy processes, budget overspend and ineffective supplier relationships. But, quite often, organisations do not have the internal capacity, market knowledge or project management skills needed to successfully transform their procurement function.
At eXceeding, we understand that appointing procurement transformation consultants is an investment for any organisation. That is why we focus on ensuring tailored, practical and achievable outcomes.
The eXceeding procurement consultancy approach starts your procurement transformation journey by running a full procurement diagnostic. This involves:
The output of this procurement consultancy process is not only a strategic vision for your procurement function, but – more importantly – a very clear implementation plan, phased over your defined period (usually 1-3 years) that is suitable for your organisation, your industry and your size.
This bespoke action plan provides you with a clear and pragmatic pathway to success; starting with the quick wins – areas where you can immediately see benefits and realise value.
We can then also support your journey with additional procurement consulting services as required, such as cost reduction, resourcing, outsourcing or supplier relationship management.
One key area of procurement transformation for your organisation may be digitalisation.
Digital procurement transformation brings a wealth of benefits to any organisation. The ability to leverage technological advancements can; improve processes, provide real-time insights into operations and costs, enhance your reporting and analytics capabilities and provide more insightful data-driven decision making.
Often, organisations do not have the internal knowledge of the options available to them, or how best to make use of existing or new solutions.
Digital procurement transformation also offers the opportunity to improve transparency and can open the doors to innovation across your entire supply chain. Integrating the right technology will centralise your data, help you to monitor your suppliers and plan for current or future risk. It also provides an opportunity for you to share data and open up conversations with your suppliers; creating space for brainstorming new processes or products.
eXceeding’s digital procurement consultants are on top of digital innovations in the market place and can ensure best-fit technology solutions for your business, as well as supporting the associate change management project involved in bringing in new technologies and processes.
We even offer our own dynamic purchasing system that can support key elements of the procurement process, such as SQs, PQQs, ITTs and scoring.
Digitalisation through procurement software and platforms will, for many small to medium enterprises (SMEs), or financially struggling public sector bodies, be the difference between sinking or swimming as they start on the road to recovery.
By Steve Rowland on 10 December 2020
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