Procurement Strategy Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Procurement Strategy 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 992 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 Strategy improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 992 standard requirements:


1. 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?
   
   

2. Do you consider that training on standards related to the business continuity, risk and crisis management and other relevant standards may be useful in this situation?
   
   

3. How to safeguard a dynamic and productive interaction between technology and human services providers in service innovation related to societal challenges?
   
   

4. How effective is your organization in leveraging data and AI/advanced analytics to assist with business decision making in demand management/forecasting?
   
   

5. Can the solution help you with cloud adoption paths, disparate tools and platforms, the demands of new intelligent workloads, and cybersecurity threats?
   
   

6. Where violations of the code of conduct are found, is there access to effective resolution, remediation, and grievance mechanisms for workers?
   
   

7. Is it really possible to have fair and just supply chains when globalisation is predicated on universal access to goods, services and labor?
   
   

8. What is the role of intellectual capital as the core of value creation in corporate life performance at different stages of the life cycle?
   
   

9. Is there a procedure to follow for the first person or group to be affected by the event to contact the appropriate organization officials?
   
   

10. Have the needs of vulnerable and marginalised individuals been identified in stakeholder mapping and engagement planning?
    
    


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 Strategy book in PDF containing 992 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


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


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Human Resource Management Plan: Have all team members been part of identifying risks?
   
   

2. Probability and Impact Assessment: Are staff committed for the duration of the Procurement Strategy project?
   
   

3. Responsibility Assignment Matrix: No rs: if a task has no one listed as responsible, who is getting the job done?
   
   

4. Lessons Learned: What worked well or did not work well, either for this Procurement Strategy project or for the Procurement Strategy project team?
   
   

5. Activity Cost Estimates: Were the tasks or work products prepared by the consultant useful?
   
   

6. Probability and Impact Matrix: Are compilers and code generators available and suitable for the product to be built?
   
   

7. Lessons Learned: Is the lesson based on actual Procurement Strategy project experience rather than on independent research?
   
   

8. Procurement Management Plan: Have the procedures for identifying budget variances been followed?
   
   

9. Quality Management Plan: Were the right locations/samples tested for the right parameters?
   
   

10. Probability and Impact Matrix: Pay attention to the quality of the plans: is the content complete, or does it seem to be lacking detail?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Procurement Strategy project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Procurement Strategy 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 Strategy 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 Strategy 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 Strategy 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 Strategy 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 Strategy project with this in-depth Procurement Strategy Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Procurement Strategy 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 Strategy 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 Strategy investments work better.

This Procurement Strategy 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.