Are provisions for delays of payment to suppliers provided and implemented?
Do you have a specialist internal procurement unit, or rely on consultants?
Does your organization request Manufacturers A equipment as a sole source procurement?
How does procurement help organizations prepare for the uncertainty ahead?
Is the project independent concerning the financing and procurement of technology?
Is there an estimated value / budgeted amount associated with this procurement?
What are the expected timeframes for hardware procurement and installation?
What is the difference between a contracting officer and contracting specialist?
What strategies do you use to align your procurement functions with your business strategy?
Who are the parties involved in procurement through limited source bidding?
This Procurement Functions Guide is unlike books you're used to. If you're looking for a textbook, this might not be for you. This book and its included digital components is for you who understands the importance of asking great questions. This gives you the questions to uncover the Procurement Functions challenges you're facing and generate better solutions to solve those problems.
Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department.
Unless you're talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. That process needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'
This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Procurement Functions investments work better.
This Procurement Functions All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person.
INCLUDES all the tools you need to an in-depth Procurement Functions Self-Assessment. Featuring new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core levels of Procurement Functions maturity, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Procurement Functions improvements can be made.
In using the questions you will be better able to:
Diagnose Procurement Functions projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices.
Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals.
Integrate recent advances in Procurement Functions and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines.
Using the Self-Assessment tool gives you the Procurement Functions Scorecard, enabling you to develop a clear picture of which Procurement Functions areas need attention.
Your purchase includes access to the Procurement Functions self-assessment digital components which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool that enables you to define, show and lead your organization exactly with what's important.
