Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Indirect Procurement Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Indirect Procurement 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 Indirect Procurement specific requirements:
STEP 1: Get your bearings
Start with...
- The latest quick edition of the Indirect Procurement 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 Indirect Procurement improvements can be made.
Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:
- How do you organizations adoption of artificial intelligence and robotics affect its competitors in the same industry or market, as well as upstream suppliers and downstream customers?
- How might you perform traceability sourcing of raw material production against best practice production guidelines to quantify environmental and social impact of global supply chains?
- Is the team experienced in all market data commercial management workflows, from handling service requests and contract renewals to data procurement and cost and usage reporting?
- What are the skills and competencies contributing to each dimension of supply chain integration; namely internal integration, customer integration and supplier integration?
- How can enhancements to existing actuation, locking and detection technologies improve reliability, reduce whole life cost and result in reductions in maintenance?
- How can alternative and innovative actuation, locking and detection systems improve reliability, reduce whole life cost and result in a reduction in maintenance?
- Are other organizations effectively sourcing and managing the contingent labor given the amount of it in use and in combination with increasing demand?
- What is the level of understanding within your organization of the cyber and privacy risks arising from your third parties or suppliers across areas?
- How would this be addressed for an on site review of the contracted data center and the review of the data center where the data backups are stored?
- Are all personnel/personal service contract records for all categories of personnel set up, maintained and disposed of according to regulations?
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 Indirect Procurement book in PDF containing 999 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
Your Indirect Procurement 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 Indirect Procurement Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Indirect Procurement 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 Indirect Procurement 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 Indirect Procurement projects with the 62 implementation resources:
- 62 step-by-step Indirect Procurement Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Indirect Procurement project requirements and success criteria:
Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:
- Cost Management Plan: Is quality monitored from the perspective of the customers needs and expectations?
- Lessons Learned: How timely was the training you received in preparation for the use of the product/service?
- Probability and Impact Matrix: What action would you take to the identified risks in the Indirect Procurement project?
- Assumption and Constraint Log: How relevant is this attribute to this Indirect Procurement project or audit?
- Team Directory: Process decisions: are contractors adequately prosecuting the work?
- Risk Audit: What impact does prior experience have on decisions made during the risk-assessment process?
- Requirements Traceability Matrix: Describe the process for approving requirements so they can be added to the traceability matrix and Indirect Procurement project work can be performed. Will the Indirect Procurement project requirements become approved in writing?
- Stakeholder Management Plan: Are stakeholders aware and supportive of the principles and practices of modern software estimation?
- Cost Management Plan: Have the reasons why the changes to your organizational systems and capabilities are required?
- Probability and Impact Assessment: Does the software engineering team have the right mix of skills?
Step-by-step and complete Indirect Procurement Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
1.0 Initiating Process Group:
- 1.1 Indirect Procurement project Charter
- 1.2 Stakeholder Register
- 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
2.0 Planning Process Group:
- 2.1 Indirect Procurement project Management Plan
- 2.2 Scope Management Plan
- 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
- 2.4 Requirements Documentation
- 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
- 2.6 Indirect Procurement 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 Indirect Procurement 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 Indirect Procurement 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 Indirect Procurement 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 Indirect Procurement project with this in-depth Indirect Procurement Toolkit.
In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:
- Diagnose Indirect Procurement 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 Indirect Procurement 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 Indirect Procurement investments work better.
This Indirect Procurement 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.
