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Strategic Sourcing
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Discovery

An effective sourcing strategy relies on accurate, unbiased, and up-to-date supply market, supplier, and category information. This course covers the discovery step of strategic sourcing process that provides this important intel.

Course Includes:
  • 3 Modules
  • 9 Learning Activities
  • 11 Checkpoints
  • 1 Practice Point
  • 3 Quizzes
  • 1 Downloadable, Fillable Template
  • 1 Downloadable, Practice Point Exercise
  • 7 Infographics

Module summary:

  • Explains the aim of the discovery step and process
  • Describes the benefits of procurement intel
  • Details the what, why, where and when of procurement intel capture
  • Introduces discovery tools and how they are used to analyze procurement intel
  • Shows the need for and benefits of a current state analysis

Module lesson titles:

  1. Introduction to discovery
  2. Capturing procurement intel
  3. Analyzing procurement intel
  4. Current state analysis

Module summary:

  • Describes the benefits of Know Your Supplier (KYS)
  • Explains the hard and soft attributes used to determine what a good supplier looks like
  • Shows how to build and use your own KYS scorecard when choosing suppliers

Module lesson titles:

  1. Supplier analysis (know your supplier)

Module summary:

  • Describes the benefits of spend management
  • Explains the spend analysis process
  • Shows how to determine the most appropriate spend analysis approach
  • Shows how to build and use your own spend analysis metrics

Module lesson titles:

  1. Introduction to spend analysis
  2. The spend analysis process
  3. Spend analysis approaches
  4. Spend analysis metrics

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