Procurement Management
What is it?
Strategic Sourcing/Category Management is an approach that best-in-class organizations leverage to buy more effectively reduced unit costs. Category management consists of understanding the business drivers (both internal and external) of key supply sets and to most effectively manage those relationships in the context of the broader marketplace. Mature category management tools address both transactional supplier performance as well as help to leverage strategic supplier relationships.
Xtivity’s team of MRO Supply Chain experts have years of experience as procurement/sourcing practitioners from large, multi-national companies that span a multitude of industry sectors. Additionally, they have technical and market expertise in key industries and most have direct operations and/or engineering/maintenance experience.
Our services generally include spend categorization and analytics. We have experience in designing lean organizational structures to most effectively manage key categories and to do so in organizations with varying degrees of centralization. We have the ability to source key categories directly, or to provide tools and training appropriate to our clients’ individual levels of Procurement organization and subject-matter maturity. A key aspect of our Strategic Sourcing/Category Management practice is the design and implementation of Supplier Segmentation programs—in support of effective Strategic Sourcing programs.
- Better visibility to spend across the organization
- A focus on core / under-leveraged spend categories
- Lower total cost of ownership / competitive advantage
- Lower total cost of ownership / competitive advantage
- Supplementary resource / expertise
- More effective and efficient procurement / supply chain organizations
