Global Sourcing Toolkit


• Establish that your operation complies; influences strategic third party category plans and purchasing decisions through analysis, Relationship Building and securing alignment with sourcing teams and Key Stakeholders.
  
  

• Confirm your project complies; influences strategic third party category plans and purchasing decisions through analysis, Relationship Building and securing alignment with sourcing teams and Key Stakeholders.
  
  

• Provide commercial and analytical support to Strategic Sourcing projects and planning.
  
  

• Warrant that your business complies; directs the development of the IT sourcing strategy and provides executive oversight for strategic vendor and partner Relationship Management.
  
  

• Warrant that your operation analyzes Business Needs, evaluates, and recommends technical solutions, overseas sourcing decisions and scalable Vendor Management process to align IT support Services with Business Needs.
  
  

• Evaluate clients technology estate (application, infrastructure, network) rationalization opportunities, sourcing options, economic models, risk posture, and recommend Strategic Direction.
  
  

• Secure that your organization complies; directs the development of IT sourcing strategy and provides executive oversight for strategic vendor and partner Relationship Management.
  
  

• In conjunction with the Product Team; plan, manage, and coordinate all activities related to the sourcing and procurement of necessary materials and supplies needed to meet the changing levels of product demand.
  
  

• Be accountable for the design, build, and run of the data sourcing strategy to support downstream consumption across consumption methods (traditional BI and advanced analytics).
  
  

• Manage work with Program Management, Product Development, Risk Management, and operations on New Product Development and product enhancement programs to ensure effective sourcing of materials to meet specifications, material requirements, and pricing from suppliers.
  
  

• Ensure alignment of the materials sourcing and supply strategy with business strategies together with multi functional stakeholders (Operations, Finance, Commercial and Marketing).
  
  

• Be accountable for advancing your organizations Roadmap programs Single Sourcing of Data, Architecture Convergence and Rationalization of Platforms.
  
  

• Arrange that your corporation assess engine components and tools, Supplier Quality systems, supplier selection, and Strategic Sourcing process development with the objective of overall Quality Improvement and resolution of Supplier Quality issues.
  
  

• Create and execute plan to continuously improve talent sourcing and skill development by providing Business Intelligence and proactively driving Workforce Analysis and Diversity Initiatives.
  
  

• Ensure you govern; lead process begins at raw component sourcing to end product distribution with high quality, compliance, and service performance.
  
  

• Assure visibility of project sourcing and procurement requirements to, with tracking of workflow in alignment with External Labor Management, Legal and Procurement policies and practices.
  
  

• Maintain and improve the procurement system and process used to track spending activity, current projects and savings associated with individual sourcing programs.
  
  

• Manage and lead the execution of existing Managed Services Contract management, Change Control and governance activities for all active contracts, in partnership and support from partnering legal, sourcing and other applicable support teams.
  
  

• Seek and recommend suppliers for all forms of packaging recommend best methods for packaging and work closely with Purchasing, Logistics, Sourcing and Materials to manage quality, cost, delivery, and Supply Chain needs.
  
  

• Arrange that your project leads the identification and negotiation of strategic technology partnerships and contributes to enterprise sourcing contracts to achieve broad business benefit and competitive advantage.
  
  

• Support development and implementation of the sourcing strategies to achieve lowest total cost, improve Working Capital, achieve On Time Delivery, improve Cycle Time, and ensure early supplier involvement in Product Development.
  
  

• Establish that your organization provides feedback for ongoing Process Improvement; identifies trends and Knowledge Base needs and provides insight to increase operational efficiencies.
  
  


Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Global Sourcing Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step Work Plans and maturity diagnostics for any Global Sourcing 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 Global Sourcing specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Global Sourcing 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 999 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of Process Design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Global Sourcing improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:


1. What tools and technologies are needed for a custom Global Sourcing project?
   
   

2. Have the concerns of stakeholders to help identify and define potential barriers been obtained and analyzed?
   
   

3. What extra resources will you need?
   
   

4. Is your strategy driving your strategy? Or is the way in which you allocate resources driving your strategy?
   
   

5. What measurements are possible, practicable and meaningful?
   
   

6. What are the potential basics of Global Sourcing fraud?
   
   

7. What resources or support might you need?
   
   

8. How are consistent Global Sourcing definitions important?
   
   

9. What information do you gather?
   
   

10. How can auditing be a preventative security measure?
    
    


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 Global Sourcing book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Global Sourcing 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 Global Sourcing Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Global Sourcing 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 Global Sourcing 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 Global Sourcing projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Global Sourcing Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Global Sourcing project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Cost Management Plan: Eac -estimate at completion, what is the total job expected to cost?
   
   

2. Activity Cost Estimates: In which phase of the Acquisition Process cycle does source qualifications reside?
   
   

3. Project Scope Statement: Will all Global Sourcing project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?
   
   

4. Closing Process Group: Did the Global Sourcing Project Team have enough people to execute the Global Sourcing project plan?
   
   

5. Source Selection Criteria: What are the guidelines regarding award without considerations?
   
   

6. Scope Management Plan: Are Corrective Actions taken when actual results are substantially different from detailed Global Sourcing project plan (variances)?
   
   

7. Initiating Process Group: During which stage of Risk planning are risks prioritized based on probability and impact?
   
   

8. Cost Management Plan: Is your organization certified as a supplier, wholesaler, regular dealer, or manufacturer of corresponding products/supplies?
   
   

9. Procurement Audit: Was a formal review of tenders received undertaken?
   
   

10. Activity Cost Estimates: What procedures are put in place regarding bidding and cost comparisons, if any?


 
Step-by-step and complete Global Sourcing Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Global Sourcing project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Global Sourcing Project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Global Sourcing 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 Global Sourcing 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 Global Sourcing 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 Global Sourcing 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 Global Sourcing project with this in-depth Global Sourcing Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Global Sourcing 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 Global Sourcing 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 Global Sourcing investments work better.

This Global Sourcing 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.