Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Procurement Functions Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Procurement Functions related project.
Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.
The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Procurement Functions specific requirements:
STEP 1: Get your bearings
Start with...
- The latest quick edition of the Procurement Functions Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.
Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…
- Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation
Then find your goals...
STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track
Featuring 993 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Procurement Functions improvements can be made.
Examples; 10 of the 993 standard requirements:
- Will departments have assigned procurement specialists that have insight into the business functions or will departments have to go to a different procurement specialist for each category of need?
- Does your organization have procurement roles and responsibilities that adequately segregate procurement, identification of requirements, vendor selection and vendor payment functions?
- Has it been determined how large a portion of the procurement portfolio that should be managed by the procurement function/unit and how large a portion that should be managed locally?
- Which individuals performs various management roles within an administrative or functional area of the business, as human resources, finance, accounting, or procurement?
- How can the procurement function in the public sector rapidly adapt to the changes that are needed and improve the speed to market during unprecedented times?
- Are obtained prices/qualities competitive to prices/qualities obtained by other procurement functions/units, comparing obtained or improved value for money?
- Is the performance of the procurement function/unit benchmarked with other procurement functions/units in the different stages of the procurement process?
- Is the procurement function/unit organized the most appropriate way taking into consideration the actual tasks which your organization has to carry out?
- Does your organization evaluate and benchmark the performance of the procurement function/ unit against other comparable procurement functions/units?
- What are the implications of executive procurement of management consultancy for the development of strategic procurement as a professional function?
Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:
- The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Procurement Functions book in PDF containing 993 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
Your Procurement Functions self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:
- The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Procurement Functions Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Procurement Functions areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
- Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix
- Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Procurement Functions Self-Assessment
- Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results
- Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:
STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy
The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Procurement Functions projects with the 62 implementation resources:
- 62 step-by-step Procurement Functions Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Procurement Functions project requirements and success criteria:
Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:
- Change Management Plan: Does this change represent a completely new process for your organization, or a different application of an existing process?
- Activity Duration Estimates: Do you think many other organizations could apply this methodology, or does each organization need to create its own methodology?
- Procurement Audit: Was the dynamic purchasing system set up following the rules of open procedure?
- Probability and Impact Matrix: Which of your Procurement Functions projects should be selected when compared with other Procurement Functions projects?
- Project Portfolio management: How does your organization ensure that Procurement Functions project and program benefits and risks are being managed to optimize the overall value creation from the portfolio?
- Probability and Impact Assessment: Is the delay in one subProcurement Functions project going to affect another?
- Change Management Plan: How will the stakeholders share information and transfer knowledge?
- Activity Duration Estimates: What do you think the real problem was in this case?
- Formal Acceptance: How does your team plan to obtain formal acceptance on your Procurement Functions project?
- Change Request: How are the measures for carrying out the change established?
Step-by-step and complete Procurement Functions Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
1.0 Initiating Process Group:
- 1.1 Procurement Functions project Charter
- 1.2 Stakeholder Register
- 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
2.0 Planning Process Group:
- 2.1 Procurement Functions project Management Plan
- 2.2 Scope Management Plan
- 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
- 2.4 Requirements Documentation
- 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
- 2.6 Procurement Functions project Scope Statement
- 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log
- 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure
- 2.9 WBS Dictionary
- 2.10 Schedule Management Plan
- 2.11 Activity List
- 2.12 Activity Attributes
- 2.13 Milestone List
- 2.14 Network Diagram
- 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements
- 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure
- 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates
- 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet
- 2.19 Procurement Functions project Schedule
- 2.20 Cost Management Plan
- 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates
- 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet
- 2.23 Cost Baseline
- 2.24 Quality Management Plan
- 2.25 Quality Metrics
- 2.26 Process Improvement Plan
- 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix
- 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities
- 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan
- 2.30 Communications Management Plan
- 2.31 Risk Management Plan
- 2.32 Risk Register
- 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment
- 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix
- 2.35 Risk Data Sheet
- 2.36 Procurement Management Plan
- 2.37 Source Selection Criteria
- 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan
- 2.39 Change Management Plan
3.0 Executing Process Group:
- 3.1 Team Member Status Report
- 3.2 Change Request
- 3.3 Change Log
- 3.4 Decision Log
- 3.5 Quality Audit
- 3.6 Team Directory
- 3.7 Team Operating Agreement
- 3.8 Team Performance Assessment
- 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment
- 3.10 Issue Log
4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:
- 4.1 Procurement Functions project Performance Report
- 4.2 Variance Analysis
- 4.3 Earned Value Status
- 4.4 Risk Audit
- 4.5 Contractor Status Report
- 4.6 Formal Acceptance
5.0 Closing Process Group:
- 5.1 Procurement Audit
- 5.2 Contract Close-Out
- 5.3 Procurement Functions project or Phase Close-Out
- 5.4 Lessons Learned
Results
With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Procurement Functions project with this in-depth Procurement Functions Toolkit.
In using the Toolkit 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 put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines
Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.
Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it 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 Toolkit 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 Toolkit enables You to be that person.
Includes lifetime updates
Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.
