Positive Purchasing - Direction

Purchasing Function Effectiveness

For a purchasing function to be effective and make the required bottom line contribution it must be properly resourced, with the right systems, structure and people all working towards a common set of goals aligned to overall business objectives. We have extensive experience of working with purchasing function effectiveness in global organisations and we can help enable your purchasing function to reach the required performance levels. Our Positive Improvement programs are designed to help set the required direction and transformation roadmap for your purchasing function.  

Improvement Programs

Our Positive Improvement programs build on the results from our World Class Assessment and Competency Assessment programs and can help across a range of areas:

Purchasing Strategy Development - Working closely with your leadership team and key senior stakeholders we can help you explore the required future contribution you require purchasing to make to your organisation and develop a unified mission, strategy, aims and objectives fully aligned with overall business goals.
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Purchasing Structure - We can help you determine what needs to be in place to realise your purchasing strategy, aims, and objectives. Working with your leadership team we can help you identify the right structure, systems and people and help drive in the required capability and culture to create an effective purchasing organisation.

Purchasing Transformation Roadmap - Transforming a purchasing organisation is no small undertaking and requires a step-by-step roadmap, both to secure the necessary resources and to support the implementation process. We can help you develop the Purchasing Transformation Roadmap for your organisation and help you secure the necessary support and awareness across the entire business.

Governance - Delivery of results by purchasing is essential and purchasing programs such as Category Management and Supplier Relationship Management are key delivery engines here. However for such programs to be successful effective governance is required to ensure the programs are properly set up, are delivering the required benefits on time and any obstacles or issues are being addressed quickly. We have extensive experience of working with leadership teams to put in place the required governance including support by our participation in steering group reviews early on until arrangements bed in.
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Executive Awareness - Purchasing can play a strategic role in overall business success however one reason why transformation programs often stall is a lack of understanding of the role and potential contribution purchasing can make amongst senior stakeholders. If senior individuals view purchasing as little more than the function that buys things then they are unlikely to provide the necessary support and resources for purchasing led initiatives. Our Executive Awareness programs are customised to your organisation and help to provide one more short, focussed, high level interactive workshops to help increase executive awareness. Led by one of our senior partners the executive education programs allows senior individuals to both share issues and difficulties as well as understanding the potential benefits, the role of purchasing and their role to help make purchasing effective at a business wide level.  

Purchasing Communications - An effective purchasing organisation needs effective, managed internal and external communications. Within the function staff need to understand the direction and goals of the function and their individual role to support these. Outside the function support for purchasing led initiatives will only come if other functions see the benefits purchasing bring and the successes so far. Externally purchasing must communicate its expectations and rules of engagement with the supply base. These communications don't just happen but instead require a managed and planned approach with a communication plan and defined channels. We can help you establish this for your purchasing function and work with you to create key communication tools such as stakeholder engagement and supplier engagement brochures.

Contact Positive Purchasing today to find out how we can help you determine direction in your purchasing organisation. contact us  simply click here to send us an email. You can call us on +44 (0) 845 331 3312 or +44 (0) 1752 827969.