Strategic Sourcing

Who we serve

With globalization came need for strategic sourcing.  The dilemma is to optimize cost, quality, and delivery with many factors that are “outside of your control.”  The first step is to determine the methodology for what should be sourced and how.  Then determine where and how much.  Our team has worked in many types of sourcing operations that have the same challenges that your team does.  We can design, implement, and institutionalize world class sourcing practices to help optimize cost, quality, and delivery.

Organizations we work with:

Health care

• Hospitals and health networks
• Medical supply distributors
• Pharmaceutical manufacturers
• Medical device manufacturers
• Health care agencies
• Federal and state government agencies

Production

• Consumer product manufacturing
• Industrial manufacturing

Logistics

• Railroads
• Trucking companies
• Industrial distributors
• Freight terminals
• Government agencies

What we do

As with all of our services we take a holistic approach to optimizing strategic sourcing. Depending on our clients needs we are engaged to engineer, optimize, or evolve all or a part of sourcing processes. Typically the focus in this area is in optimizing On-time Delivery, material cost, supplier qualifications, part qualification, and inventory dollars/ working capital turnover.

Areas we specialize in:

• Material cost reduction
• Supplier qualification process
• Part qualification process
• Supplier identification
• Contract terms and conditions
• Sourcing process implementation
• Total cost of goods modeling