Procurement Excellence

Procurement Transformation Assessment

Many companies have difficulty setting aside the time and personnel to take an honest, hard look at their processes, and operations. Often the existing processes are word-of-mouth, weakly documented workflows, muddled approval rules--resulting in errors, wasteful re-work, and poor visibility to true costs. Profit is always the victim.

We find that people are eager for a fix, but realities are that time and resource constraints keep most companies from making the changes they really know they need.

We craft a custom solution for our client by drawing from our depth of experience in running businesses, in working within many of the best procurement organizations, and by injecting findings from very current scientific and academic studies.

Each custom solution, however, addresses the following common needs:

• Establishment of purchasing processes, activities, controls, and standards
• Management of supplier relationships, qualifications, and performance measurement
• Development of procurement roles, skills, and organizational structure

eProcurement Capability Development

Most companies find themselves owning and using an odd collection of e-tools . Often the tools were acquired at various times in the past in response to a particular urgent need. Today, the company finds that all have become outdated. New tools are needed to support the more sophisticated needs of contemporary procurement practices and workflow.

We tackle this need by first developing a B2B model that takes into consideration opportunities that lend themselves to eProcurement. We develop and validate the client-specific eProcurement/eAuction functional requirements. The outcome is our recommendation of a client-specific eProcurement strategy.

Full Life Cycle Project –A Positive Impact to Earning

Many companies today, in particular mid-market companies, are recognizing that an effective procurement department has significant capacity to impact earnings. These companies understand that the ROI on the right procurement plan is widely documented. They need only the right guide to get them there.

DFA will lead the way. We work alongside our client to create a customized, easily-digestible project that is appropriate to the developmental level and budget of our client. The project outcome will be a phased or big bang implementation of a fully functional, effective procurement department.

The DFA Management full life-cycle project uses three common phases: strategic sourcing scoping and planning, a procurement transformation assessment, and eProcurement capability advisement. Because we have designed our phases to be flexible to respond to the current needs of our client, we can and do begin our client’s project at any phase of the life-cycle.

These are the DFA Management Full Life Cycle Project phases that can be implemented individually or big bang. The link will take you to the detail on each phase.

Strategic Sourcing Scoping, Planning , and Implementation

Procurement Transformation Assessment

e-Procurement Capability Development