Understand Production Status, transform Sourcing
Procurement’s scope and reach can be vast, touching all levels of the organization, from assuring transaction efficiency to orchestrating complex supplier relationships. As business needs change and technology evolves, Procurement needs to be agile and stay relevant. However, this means understanding what good looks like and how you can improve your function in talent, technology, processes, and strategy. As with any transformation, the first challenge is understanding and evidence the case for change.
“Our maturity assessment with AQM BD enabled us to get a deep dive into our function. We understood where our strengths were and where we needed to develop and invest to reach our North Star.”
getting procurement right, For now and next
Procurement teams are multidisciplinary, involving a variety of talent and technology, delivering multiple processes to many business stakeholders. In short, they are complex, so being able to see the details, how you “compare to good,” and where you can improve is no easy task.
Our maturity assessment is there to reduce this complexity and remove the barriers to seeing the path of improvement. It’s been used by many businesses to provide a current state benchmark, define a future ambition, and plot an improvement pathway.
- Looks at procurement through several different lenses like talent, technology, strategy, processes, knowledge, etc.
- Enables a benchmark of Procurement’s current “maturity” and Gap Analysis against desired state and peer organisations.
- Services are evidence when articulating a business case for change and design blueprint .
Pragmatic, realistic and achievable approach
Our approach is built around understanding your business, current procurement operation, and stakeholder needs. While we can offer high or low-touch approaches, we often deliver this service on-site through our transformation specialists. We analyze processes and data and conduct in-depth stakeholder interviews to add context to the maturity assessment. We discuss the findings with you and work out an ambition relative to your current position and organizational needs. We then outline the “when” and “how” and how AQM BD can support your transformation, if necessary, to achieve the ambition.
- Deep specialists with experience in designing, running, and transforming functions .
- Trusted tools and models used to run the maturity assessment quickly and translate in to an achievable plan.
- Outside insights are brought in to challenge the organization and in-house teams to support, build, operate, and transfer if applicable.