The ability to identify and prioritize sourcing efforts is critical to the success of a procurement organization’s strategic sourcing program. However, since many companies have multiple transaction systems and lack the tools to track and monitor spend with suppliers, their understanding of what is spent is limited and in some cases completely unknown. Moreover, if a company doesn't have the resources and time available to effectively research a particular category, it is difficult to know whether it is an opportune time to source a category and how to prioritize sourcing efforts.

Our Solution
Our Sourcing Opportunity Assessment solution is a comprehensive spend and savings opportunity diagnostic. This solution provides companies an improved understanding of enterprise-wide spend information at a category and division level, a savings opportunity assessment by category, and a recommended high-level implementation plan. The assessment includes data consolidation and categorization services using a proven process, access to historical A.T. Kearney Procurement Solutions results data, and input from our category management experts. The result: improved and accelerated savings through identification and prioritization of optimal categories to source.

Key Features

Benefits


Key Features

Categorized Spend Data
	•	Cleansed database of enterprise-wide corporate spend data which can be sorted by category, supplier, division and geography
Savings Opportunity Assessment
	•	Identification and prioritization of sourceable categories based on: – Spend levels – Overall savings opportunity defined by supplier fragmentation, spend fragmentation across enterprise, market potential, past sourcing efforts, and historical opportunity – Ease of implementation
Recommended Sourcing Implementation Plan
	•	Proposed sourcing approach by savings opportunity, including timing, necessary resources, and next steps
Best-In-Class Sourcing Content and Services
	•	Proven spend categorization process customized to unique company situation with integrated quality control checkpoints
	•	Access to best-in-class category expertise and historical results data to accurately assess total savings opportunity
	•	Delivery team of experienced procurement professionals with expertise in a broad range of direct and indirect categories
Leading-Edge eSourcing Spend Management Technology (optional)
	•	Optional implementation of the eBreviate eSourcing Spend Management module for ongoing consolidation and classification of spend data based on customized business rules

Procurement Organization Benefits

	•	Increased visibility into spend levels across the entire enterprise
	•	Identification of sourcing opportunities
	•	Accelerated savings through prioritized sourcing efforts
	•	Increased negotiating leverage with suppliers
	•	Archived category spend information for future use