Raggiungere piena visibilità e controllo in ambito spend management
The systematic classification or grouping of goods, services, or materials has been a fundamental practice in procurement and supply chain management for many years, however, the approach to identifying sourcing categories and the level of sophistication in categorization methods have largely evolved over the past 10 years.
In my previous article, I shared a 7-step approach to analysing supplier distribution in terms of quantity and spend and showed why it is so crucial to implement it to assess and improve supply chain resilience. Today, I'd like to highlight the most common pitfalls that hinder this type of analysis and how to overcome them.
Understanding suppliers' distribution in terms of quantity and spending is something crucial for an organisation and thus for 3 reasons. Not only does it identify suppliers that contribute the most to your overall expenditure but it also helps assess the resilience and vulnerability of the supply chain while evaluating the performance of each individual supplier.
Developed some 40 years ago, Kraljic's matrix may seem obsolete to young CPOs, especially as the global economy has changed completely since then. Can such an approach still be effective in a context of inflation, energy crisis and geopolitical instability? In the following article, we propose to look back at this innovative concept.
Per avviare con successo una strategia di approvvigionamento sostenibile, è essenziale affidarsi all'analisi dei dati. Raccogliendo e monitorando gli indicatori chiave di performance, un'azienda può mitigare i rischi, ridurre i costi e apportare miglioramenti adattandosi costantemente.