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The EC Sourcing Group offers powerful tools
to manage everyday supply management activities to achieve product/service quality improvements, improved asset
utilization and real bottom line savings. Our solution requires only an Internet connection and a browser.
We invite you to attend our
Webinar, request an online demo or conduct a pilot program so you can experience first hand our people,
technology tools and the ease of using a supply management solution designed by sourcing professionals like you.
To achieve your supply management goals including efficient strategic sourcing we recommend you
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Step 1. Understand the Problem:
The true culprit in preventing firms from initiating strategic sourcing is likely the processes used to manage data, vendors and reporting. Add
to that the fact that your current workflow processes are continually introducing new data that is also not any easier to manage and the
real root problem becomes exacerbated. Some potential problems we have witnessed:
______ __Lack
of good spend data
______ __Lack
of formal / structured sourcing / vendor management process
______ __Not
enough time to execute a thorough sourcing process
______ __Thorough
vendor management is too cumbersome
______ __Current
vendor management solution is too cumbersome
Key Tip:
Don’t just settle for the short-term, quick hits by:
______ __consolidating
suppliers
______ __reducing
SKU counts
______ __and
leveraging total spend by category
____…many of these quick fix gains erode quickly over time due to the capacity
____constraints of the existing infrastructure. Harnessing technology to automate
____transactions, organize and retrieve supply chain data and manage scale is
____critical to enabling long-term consistency of success and a long-term
____sustainable real dollar savings.
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