Since 1992, Source One’s Logistics and Procurement specialists have offered a full suite of services designed to empower the purchasing team and steer the entire business toward greater efficiency and more consistent value generation.
For Procurement’s strategic evolution?to continue, the function needs to distinguish itself as a strategic asset to its peers within the business. Source One has the category expertise and wealth of experience to support Procurement in these efforts. With our support, Procurement can learn to speak the language of other business units like Logistics, Marketing, Telecom, and IT and collaborate to drive initiatives.
Make Procurement a Category Manager
Traditional approaches to training and professional development won’t serve Procurement for much longer. Today’s strategic, adaptable organizations require a new set of programs and materials that will equip them for a new era. Source One’s team has spent decades helping to redefine excellence in Procurement. They’ll support your organization in building a new talent development apparatus to elevate the function and empower your entire organization.
Are your relationships with Logistics carriers still supporting your goals? Source One’s carrier relationship audit team can help you find out. Leveraging experience, insights, and market intelligence, we’ll dive into your existing relationships and identify opportunities to promote greater collaboration and generate more strategic value. Don’t settle for one-sided relationships or non-competitive pricing.
Reaching an agreement with suppliers and Logistics carriers comes down to far more than a great price. Source One’s negotiations specialists will partner with your internal Procurement team throughout the contracting process. Together, we’ll ensure you reach a win-win agreement that’s designed to evolve and adapt as necessary. We’ll also support your efforts with long-term monitoring to guarantee compliance and address concerns as necessary.
Take a comprehensive and strategic approach to Logistics and Supply Chain spend management with help from the Procurement experts.
Under the light of Sourcing and Procurement, Logistics is a uniquely complex spend category that requires a cognizant approach. While many organizations view Logistics spend as an indirect procurement category, it’s often tied to core business operations, and therefore far more strategically significant than other indirect spend areas.
Neglecting to take an approach logistics spend strategically will likely increase the risk of disrupting the status quo of the operation, no organization can afford this. Moreover, the variety of logistics subcategories, namely small parcel, LTL, FTL, ocean freight, etc. demand an approach that’s tailored to their own intricacies, the unique profile of each shipper, and the specialized nature of the industry in which they function. Professionals working within or alongside these logistics subcategories find themselves confronted with an ever-evolving list of complications and risk factors:
Vendor and carrier management are significant factors in mitigating shipping disruptions or delays, avoiding premiums, and ultimately securing competitive pricing. Source One works with each client to ensure alignment on a customized strategy for building strong carrier relationships, managing vulnerabilities, and ultimately realizing cost reduction.
Logistics is not the only spend category that forces Sourcing and Procurement to develop unique and creative strategies. Its nuances, however, can make it more complex than most. Oftentimes employing a traditional procurement cost reduction strategy won’t take into account all of the factors that influence Logistics and are critical to running a successful supply chain. That’s why we work with Logistics departments to design a customized action plan that balances the right set of strategic sourcing best practices with the supply chain and operations priorities of the business.
Most Procurement Services Providers still approach Logistics with the same sourcing and cost reduction strategies. ?Our Logistics Advisory team is different. By leveraging our experience and unparalleled access to market intelligence, we take into account the finer elements of Logistics and collaborate with you to achieve better shipper-carrier relationships and deliver tangible value. With our help, organizations like yours are able to mitigate risk, avoid unnecessary costs, partner with innovative carriers, and develop creative mechanisms to save money without sacrificing service or quality.
We take a multi-step approach to assessing your unique Logistics profile and developing customized recommendations:
In addition to delivering value, each engagement provides a knowledge transfer. By passing on our expertise, we equip your organization to manage Logistics from a more informed and strategic position well into the future.
Reach out today to learn what a more effective approach to Logistics spend could mean for your organization and its partners across the supply chain.
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