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Sourcing Advisory

Digitalization, globalization and the emerging service economies create challenges and opportunities for organizations across industry sectors. Business leaders need to continuously evaluate their portfolio of technology and services, their sourcing strategies, as well as their capabilities to address these.

PIR supports clients in all stages of their sourcing lifecycles, from strategy, through design and sourcing, transition, management of contracts and vendors as well as reevaluation of existing positions, relationships and development of capabilities to establish, nurture and drive value together with external business partners.

Our Solutions for Sourcing

We have structured best-practice, benchmarks and lessons learned from extensive project experience, ensuring that we deliver each project with accumulated knowledge, tailored to our clients’ needs.

Sourcing Advisory Engagements

Insights in Sourcing Advisory

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    Procurement Operating Model

    As the maturity of the Procurement organization increases there is a clear move to a more centralized operating model to ensure economies of scale and skill. However, there is a risk that this model increases the distance to the actual business.

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    Procurement Strategy

    Companies are facing more challenges today than ever and Procurement can be part of the strategy to handle these challenges. Procurement could play a center role in increasing competitiveness by e.g., mitigating cost increase, securing sustainability targets, enabling digitalization on company or functional level, and ensuring a flexible supply chain. When Procurement is Done Right, the Procurement Strategy is an integral part of and aligned with the overall business strategy.

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Cost Optimization

Our methodology for cost optimization is not just an elevator pitch, you get practical solutions, feet on the ground, and both top- and bottom-line result.

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Legal Advisory

During our strategic sourcing process, we go all the way to ensure real supplier contracts. We utilize our intellectual property in form of contract templates to create bespoke client supplier contracts.

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Procurement Transformation

PIR has extensive experience of transforming sourcing and procurement organizations on strategic, tactical and operational levels.