Measurement
Positive Purchasing believes that measurement of the results from successful programs is an essential part of any improvement workstream in our client organisations.
The challenges of identifying a successful approach to measurement are experienced across the world of purchasing and can cause significant difficulty as the measures are often used to demonstrate the success of the procurement function.
Experience counts
Challenges experienced include the difficulty of showing a contribution where a lack of intervention would have had a bad effect; demonstrating benefit in areas where volumes have a significant impact; accounting for overall variance where exchange rates have a dramatic effect; quantifying a wide range of value adding activity which is of benefit but is hard to measure in a fully objective way.
Our broad experience of different companies and sectors allows us to provide support in several directions:
- Working with finance teams to define and agree measurement approaches
- Working within procurement teams to ensure that measures are built into the outcomes of sourcing strategies
- Developing governance approaches which will use the output of measurement approaches to monitor and encourage delivery
- Using measurement approaches as the foundation of a comprehensive communication strategy for a procurement organisation
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