The company's purchasing of supplies is out of control, there is an oversupply of inputs on the one hand, and on the other hand the raw material was not enough to meet the demand. The department in charge needs help, otherwise the company's financial health will not hold up.
You need to analyze what is happening and define strategic sourcing that can remedy these problems.
The above story sounds catastrophic and even somewhat exaggerated, but it will surprise many to learn how often such cases occur.
Strategic sourcing a timely solution for your business
After analyzing the situation of each project and the lack of control in the expenses of each one, you decided to take action, and the best alternative is to apply the strategic sourcing methodology. But what is it?
It is a process with a very clear focus, applied in millions of companies around the world, regardless of their size. It is based on reducing the expenses or costs incurred by the company when contracting services or acquiring goods or merchandise. And we are not talking about reducing quality. On the contrary, this methodology seeks to ensure that the company makes a conscious and efficient sourcing.
Basically defines what is actually needed in all spending categories and reduces risks in the supply chain by implementing better supplier selection.
A methodology with a clear objective
The objective of applying a model such as strategic sourcing in your company has the mission of identify the best sourcing options that the market has to offer and achieve a lower total cost of ownership.
In addition, reduces supply risk to a minimumby analyzing the most innovative and appropriate product and service options for the company's profile. All this in order to achieve integral quality, and in particular, a good relationship with the right suppliers that can be sustained over time.
Benefits of strategic sourcing
The strategic sourcing approach offers multiple advantages to any company. Among them:
- Improved working capital: by focusing on reducing the total purchase cost, greater liquidity and working capital is achieved for the various projects and activities carried out in the company.
- Efficient purchasing processes: The purchasing process is separate from procurement, but benefits from it. How? With more organized processes, meeting the established mode and time, keeping control of data, documents and approval systems.
- Team lineup: An efficient purchasing process also derives from the alignment and professionalization of the team in charge.
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