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Considering your purchasing organisations current status as a provider of key resource to your business by answering the following 25 questions, which are typical of the questions our team look to answer when completing a Strategic Purchasing Review.

Judge for yourself how your purchasing organisation rates by using our strategic health check review.

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Do you know:-

How many suppliers your business uses?
How many products and services your business purchases a year?
How many purchase orders you process in total per year?
How many invoices you process in total per year?
How many supply contracts have been placed across the business each year?
How much you spend in total on bought in goods and services each year?
How much a purchase order costs to process?

Does your Purchasing team:-

Focus their efforts on upstream activities (value adding) for more than 70% of their time in order to deliver the core business competence?
Get involved at the early stage of projects / product development with users to ensure purchasing contribution is made to specification, process and potential supplier identification?
Have a clear competence based development plan to enhance their performance and skills?
Have skills sets developed that meet the needs of their specific roles (e.g. relationship development, tactical buying, cost reduction, trouble shooting, leadership.)
Have their performance effectively monitored so they understand their contribution to business objectives?
Have an effective interpersonal skill set to ensure effective internal and external relationships are developed and maintained?

Does your Business have:-

A clear procurement policy and process guidance available to all staff in an easy to read / access format?
A purchasing methodology to differentiate strategic and tactical suppliers?
An individually developed supplies strategy for the top 25 suppliers?
Systems that enable effective interrogation of purchasing data by supplier, product, category and or buyer?
A clear policy and criteria for supplier selection?
A strategy for performance management of strategic suppliers?
A clear strategy that delivers year on year cost reductions with your strategic suppliers?
A clear policy on when to use tendering and when to use negotiation?
A clear policy and understanding of how and when to use whole life costing?
Effective controls to ensure preferred suppliers / contract are used?
An e-procurement strategy?
A Procurement Marketing Plan?

To find out just what your score means and details of how RedCap Associates could assist with tangible improvements in your operation contact us or submit your completed review, one of our team will then contact you discuss your results.

For further information and on how we could work with you to complete the full Strategic Purchasing Review and see what tangible improvements could really be delivered.

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