Procurement Analysis
With this analysis service, we address supply departments of middle-sized and large businesses within industry, service and trade sectors.
Our service includes the following instruments:
- Procurement benchmarking
- Supplier overview / - profiles
- Asking for tenders
- Supplier evaluation
- Negotiation management.
Within the project team including experts from your company, we work on:
- Request criteria (catalogue and emphasis)
- Establishing of evaluation criteria
- Definition of processing rules
- Regulation of classification limits
- Selection of procedure rules
Obvious selection criteria are, e.g.:
- Prices and discounts
- Service performance
- Quality
- Flexibility
- Delivery willingness
- Certifications
- Experiences of other customers
- Shipping costs and - flexibility
- Size and structure
- Personal impression
- Rating of liability (information from Creditreform or General Credit
Protection Agency).
Following this, we readily negotiate with potentially new suppliers to get:
- An impression of their corporate culture
- References and insights into successful projects
- Discuss their price policy constructively
- Aligning ideas concerning available capacities,
delivery speed as well as reliability
In areas of logistics, we offer several services:
- Decrease of delivery periods in
streamlining the organization
- Regulation of the delivery reliability by measurement of the parts
- Evaluation of the delivery precision by spot check analyses
- Analysis of the grade of flexibility through quantifying of achieved
turnovers with masses as well as individual products
In order to optimize the supply chain, some basic questions must be answered in advance:
- Centralized and / or decentralized storage?
- Which means of transport should be used for which routes?
- What is the minimum order quantity?
- Which packaging is useful?
- In what way is it advantageous to accept individual customers' needs?