Process, Tools and Templates


A best practice strategic purchasing methodology is essential if you want your team to be effective. Achieving this requires common language and ways of working across the entire team. It also needs everyone fully equipped with and trained in the latest purchasing toolkit. We can help equip your organisation with the key processes, tools and templates modern purchasing people need to be effective.

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Category Management, SRM, negotiation and sustainability toolkit 

If you're implementing Category Management within your organisation you will need a process, a suite of reference materials so your practitioners can apply the various strategic tools effectively and a set of templates. Positive Purchasing has spent years developing our 5i™ Category Management process and we can license this for use across your organisation. We can also supply a full Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), negotiation or sustainability methodology with full practitioners toolkits. Alternatively we can develop a methodology and toolkit unique to your organisation, building on existing practices and ways of working. We have extensive experience of embedding methodologies within organisations and changing practitioner culture to create an approach that becomes 'the way the organisation buys'. 

Formats and media to suit your organisation

We can deploy sourcing methodologies and toolkits in a range of formats, available through different media to suit the way your organisation works. Our materials are available in a detailed encylopedic reference workbook format, or alternatively our highly popular simple 'Quick Reference Guide' format containing both template and the essential 'how to use it' information. We can provide a range of templates in most formats including our new Category Management on-line toolkit with on-line source plans as part of our Academy allowing users across multiple geographies to collaborate and work on sourcing strategies. 


Toolkits and available formats and media

Toolset Format Media
Detailed Encylopedic Workbooks Quick Reference Guides Template set On-line Academy Electronic or CD Rom Manual
5i™ Category Management Yes Yes Full + on-line Yes Yes Yes
Positive SRM   Yes  Full    Yes  
Red Sheet Negotiation Yes   Full  Yes   Yes
Sustainable Purchasing Yes   Full      
Your bespoke sourcing process Yes* Yes*  Yes*  Yes* Yes* Yes*

*Developed/adapted for your organisation


 
Call Positive Purchasing today to find out how we can help enable your business with a highly effective sourcing methodology. Contact us or send an email. You can call us on +44 (0) 845 331 3312 or +44 (0) 1752 827868.