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Our implementation roadmap has five steps, and you decide which categories go ahead.
Data collection: you send us annual spend data for your top 200 suppliers.
Preliminary analysis: we run a spend-to-savings analysis to identify cost-saving opportunities.
Decision: you identify and prioritize the categories you want to target.
Detailed analysis: we carry out a full savings analysis on the selected vendors.
Realize savings: we put the savings opportunities from the analysis into place.
With or without an in-house procurement team, Sourcing Desk™ covers the procurement work you need, from category strategy to execution.
We handle sourcing, negotiations, consolidation, onboarding, and performance tracking.
Sourcing Desk™ spans technology, supplies, services, and human resources spend. One team manages sourcing for all of them, so every department works under the same strategy and the same controls.
Our onboarding process lets you capture savings early, without the internal effort that large procurement initiatives usually need.
Every recommendation we make comes from a spend and supplier analysis, so each decision rests on a savings opportunity you can measure.
As your needs change, you can move between project-based support and ongoing category management.
As an extension of your team: we add sourcing capacity and category expertise alongside your procurement staff.
As your outsourced procurement function: we run end-to-end procurement outsourcing when you have no internal team.
For a single project: we take on specific categories or sourcing events.
As ongoing category management: we keep managing your categories after the first savings are in place.
Procurement outsourcing services, also called procurement as a service, hand some or all of a company's sourcing and purchasing work to an outside team. With Sourcing Desk™, that team is CenterPoint Group: we analyze your spend, run sourcing and negotiations, consolidate suppliers, and track supplier performance in the categories you choose.
The difference between strategic sourcing and procurement is that strategic sourcing is one part of procurement: a structured, project-based process for selecting suppliers and securing commercial terms for a defined requirement. Sourcing Desk™ covers that sourcing work and the supplier management around it, which includes negotiations, consolidation, onboarding, and performance tracking.
Indirect procurement is the purchase of goods and services that support business operations but do not become part of a product or service sold to customers, such as office supplies, software licenses, and cleaning services. Sourcing Desk™ sources indirect spend in four categories: technology, supplies, services, and human resources.
The advantages of outsourcing procurement to Sourcing Desk™ are one team for sourcing, negotiations, and supplier management across four spend categories, recommendations that come from an analysis of your own spend data, and support for a single project or for ongoing category management.
You don't need an in-house procurement team to use Sourcing Desk™. It works as an extension of an existing procurement team, and as a full outsourced procurement function for companies that have none.
To start a Sourcing Desk™ engagement, we need annual spend data for your top 200 suppliers. That data feeds the preliminary spend-to-savings analysis, which shows where your cost-saving opportunities are.
You decide which categories Sourcing Desk™ works on. After the preliminary analysis, you identify and prioritize the categories to target. We then run a detailed savings analysis on the selected vendors and put the identified savings opportunities into place.
Sourcing Desk™ covers four spend categories: technology, supplies, services, and human resources. That includes subcategories such as software licenses, cybersecurity, janitorial supplies, fleet management, temporary labor, and travel and expense management.
You can use Sourcing Desk™ for a single project. Support ranges from project-based work to ongoing category management, and you can move from one to the other as your needs change.
