How We Help

What Effective Business Leaders Know

Because the procurement department is vested with the control of a great percentage of the company’s capital, each procurement activity has the potential for high impact. The “C’s” are expected to prioritize activities, balance finite staff hours, and deliver the right impact, all the while being ever ready to anticipate and react to world market dynamics. Transforming activities into superior Quality Cost Reduction and ongoing Cost Management—a superior procurement assessment, a high-functioning eProcurement capability-- is not simplistic or linear. These are complex challenges.

A superior outcome demands science and art--the incorporation of academic rigor, rich business experience, sophisticated, intuitive thought, and comprehension of organizational and human dynamics. In collaboration with our client’s staff, DFA Management brings together professionals with these qualities yielding superior outcomes for our client.

Companies are Unique

In every client, we see that each Chief Officer is leading a one-of-a-kind organization —

• unique culture,
• specific strategy mandates,
• budgets pegged to the corporate strategy,
• a particular maturity of the procurement organization and staff.

But Problems are the Same

Many of our clients initially ponder the same question: why should DFA Management do this work when there is an internal procurement department? This is a good question.

The answer quickly becomes apparent for most “Cs” and it is an answer that is common to most departments—no sourcing organization has the internal manpower to constantly keep current on all spend.

Our Flexible Options

DFA Management understands this--that all companies share similar problems and, at the same time, each company is unique.

In response, we have developed a menu of flexible options that are tailored to our client’s present needs—yet, all options will accomplish the same end game—Quality Cost Reduction and Sustainable Cost Management.