Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Strategic Sourcing Solutions Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Strategic Sourcing Solutions 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 Strategic Sourcing Solutions specific requirements:
STEP 1: Get your bearings
Start with...
- The latest quick edition of the Strategic Sourcing Solutions 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 991 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Strategic Sourcing Solutions improvements can be made.
Examples; 10 of the 991 standard requirements:
- What are the historical volumes of temporary personnel needed in terms of quantity of staff and annual spending on temporary personnel distinguished by the labor category used?
- Is your interest here the size of the client measured by the clients overall revenue, or the size of the client measured by annual contract revenue to your organization?
- How will the need for change be identified, what is the process to report the need for change, and when a need for change has been identified, who kicks off the process?
- What are the forecasted volumes of temporary personnel needed in terms of quantity of staff and annual spending on temporary personnel by labor category?
- Has your organization issued any public reports describing your social and environmental responsibility or sustainable commitments and practices?
- How would you rank the degree of ease or difficulty of finding an acquisition target that is a strategic fit for your operating model?
- Who will be accountable for the monitoring of the risk and what escalation processes are in place should the risk rating increase?
- How is your organization maximizing the effective use of competition and choosing the best contract type for the acquisition?
- Do you have an individual within your organization responsible for managing or advancing sustainable business practices?
- Do you reinvest any savings from strategic sourcing, process simplification, or IT consolidation into shared services?
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 Strategic Sourcing Solutions book in PDF containing 991 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
Your Strategic Sourcing Solutions 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 Strategic Sourcing Solutions Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Strategic Sourcing Solutions 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 Strategic Sourcing Solutions 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 Strategic Sourcing Solutions projects with the 62 implementation resources:
- 62 step-by-step Strategic Sourcing Solutions Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Strategic Sourcing Solutions project requirements and success criteria:
Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:
- Communications Management Plan: How will the person responsible for executing the communication item be notified?
- Activity Duration Estimates: Consider the examples of poor quality in information technology Strategic Sourcing Solutions projects presented in the What Went Wrong?
- Lessons Learned: How well were Strategic Sourcing Solutions project issues communicated throughout your involvement in the Strategic Sourcing Solutions project?
- Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: What coalitions might build around the issues being tackled?
- Probability and Impact Matrix: Workarounds are determined during which step of risk management?
- Variance Analysis: Are your organizations and items of cost assigned to each pool identified?
- Schedule Management Plan: Have stakeholder accountabilities & responsibilities been clearly defined?
- Closing Process Group: Based on your Strategic Sourcing Solutions project communication management plan, what worked well?
- Cost Management Plan: Has the scope management document been updated and distributed to help prevent scope creep?
- Responsibility Assignment Matrix: Detailed schedules which support control account and work package start and completion dates/events?
Step-by-step and complete Strategic Sourcing Solutions Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
1.0 Initiating Process Group:
- 1.1 Strategic Sourcing Solutions project Charter
- 1.2 Stakeholder Register
- 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
2.0 Planning Process Group:
- 2.1 Strategic Sourcing Solutions project Management Plan
- 2.2 Scope Management Plan
- 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
- 2.4 Requirements Documentation
- 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
- 2.6 Strategic Sourcing Solutions 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 Strategic Sourcing Solutions 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 Strategic Sourcing Solutions 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 Strategic Sourcing Solutions 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 Strategic Sourcing Solutions project with this in-depth Strategic Sourcing Solutions Toolkit.
In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:
- Diagnose Strategic Sourcing Solutions 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 Strategic Sourcing Solutions 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 Strategic Sourcing Solutions investments work better.
This Strategic Sourcing Solutions 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.
