Procurement Advisory

Digital transformation of procurement

For your procurement organisation to meet your objectives, it is essential that you digitalise and standardise your core processes.  Digital innovations like AI help accelerate and scale your organisation. We actively support you in selecting the right solution, process design, technical implementation, and all necessary change management activities. From strategy development to practical implementation, we can provide you with strategic foresight and deep technological expertise. 

Optimisation of the Target Operating Model

With our approach to optimising the Target Operating Model, we work with you to design an operational model tailored not only to current requirements but also taking future challenges into account. We focus on the essential elements: organisation, processes, governance, people and culture, as well as technologies. 

Cost & Value Transformation

The procurement organisation is increasingly fulfilling a strategic role with value realisation that goes beyond cost savings. It is about making optimal strategic choices that have an impact on the entire business operations. Customers look at more than just services and costs, sustainable options play an increasingly important role in their choice. We help you identify sustainable savings potential through a holistic view of your processes and categories —without compromising on quality or supply chain stability. 

Integration of Managed Services

Enhance your team with our tailored Managed Services, perfectly aligned with your needs. Our experts support you across all operational, strategic, and tactical areas of Procurement. This allows you to fully focus on your core competencies while we manage the rest efficiently and reliably. Optimise your resources and maximise your success. 

Sustainable Value Chain 

A sustainable value chain is a vital component in the modern era of business operations, from the perspective of both increasing demands of clients and stakeholders and the vast aspects of upcoming sustainability legislations such as CSDDD. Modern value chains face geopolitical tension, sanctions, operational disruptions and climate change, whereby risks emerge far beyond the tier 1 of suppliers. We help you shape your future value chain and increase its sustainability levels and operational resilience. 

Enterprise software

Cloud applications & infrastructure

Customer relationship management

AI, Cloud, Collaboration, Cyber

Business spend management

Vendor management software

Procurement analytics software

ESG & Compliance

Finance & human capital management

ESG & Sustainability

Contact management software

Why improve procurement?

The increasing complexibility and impact of disruptive events, underscore the tremendous challenges for the procurement leader. Organisations are seeking greater flexibility and adaptability. Procurement does have to reshape and reinvent itself and leaders are forced to revisit the capabilities they need to succeed.

Key questions to consider:

1. How do you deliver value beyond sustainable cost reduction?
2. What’s your optimal operating model for your procurement function?
3. How do you leverage the power of data to bring value in new ways?
4. Do you have a risk management framework in place to identify and manage supplier risks?

Thinking strategically about cost

Having a clear, forward-thinking cost management strategy aligned with the business is a critical element of becoming a successful procurement organization. Effective cost management is sustained through effective strategic procurement excellence, which examines the strategy, process and infrastructure which leads to an increase in profitability and value.

We use a structured approach to Find, Get and Keep savings. By creating transparency, we identify areas of underperformance and with our hypothesis-driven approach we convert the ideas into clear cost reduction initiatives. To create transparency and ensure an efficient way of working we use a broad range of solutions to power procurement through digital and analytics. 

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Maturity assessment

Assess your current procurement maturity

How do you compare against best practices in the areas of:

• Managing third party spend
• Effectiveness of working with supply chain
• Procurement operating model

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Fit for future procurement

We see digital transformation as a key enabler for a more effective and efficient procurement function. 

We support our clients in defining and implementing a future proof operating model for procurement enabled by the right capabilities and the right technology. A clear procurement strategy is the fundamental, on which our enabling components -including organization, governance, processes, data and technology- are built. In co-creation we define your transformation roadmap. 

Our vision and roadmap cover the relevant technologies and business solutions. We advise you in determining the best fit solutions and support you through the entire procurement journey.  This includes design and implementation of the fit for future enabling components and capabilities to deliver next level performance. While we are technology agnostic, we have partnerships with the leading digital procurement solutions providers to provide you with in-depth expertise. 

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Know your supplier

Organisations are exposed to many third party risks including supplier risk. These supplier risks can be severe and include continuity, financial performance, compliance, CSR, reputation risk. Supplier risk management is therefore not an extra but a ‘must have’.

Our Know your supplier solution is a robust framework that assists in supplier risk assessment and monitoring of suppliers and is supported by the right digital tooling.

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Your procurement journey with PwC 

With leading practices through digital tools and an end-to-end view of transformation in mind we can help you to develop a best in class procurement function. 

Our procurement transformation team has experience across all aspects of the procurement process—from strategy to implementation and can help you with any stage of your journey including:

1. Vision & strategy 

• Maturity assessment procurement function (qualitative and quantitative)
• Transformation business case
• Strategy statement and vision
• Digital strategy 
• Business and technology roadmaps

2. Value improvement

• Spend analytics 
• Categorization of spend data  
• Opportunity assessment (support Subject Matter Experts)
• Strategic sourcing 
• Value tracking
• Should cost modelling

3. Category management

• Segmentation and spend analysis 
• Category management framework to outline approach and strategy 
• Category management tool 
• In-dept expertise subject matter experts
• Predictive market and supplier analysis

4. Contract & supplier management

• Best practice contract management processes
• Lean contracting and contract A.I. 
• Supplier relationship and performance management 
• Supplier co-creation and innovation
• 360 view procurement and supplier engagement lifecycle 
• Compliance monitoring and reporting

5. Risk management & CSR

• Risk assessment
• Risk management framework to outline approach and strategy
• Supply chain and third-party risk management
• Compliance monitoring and reporting
• Sustainability assessment, strategy and roadmap 
• Sustainability tracking

6. Organization & capabilities 

• Operating model design
• Maturity assessment and feasibility study 
• Data driven and evidence based operating model design
• Skills assessment and employee and organizational capability development
• Workforce management and optimization
• Transfer pricing 
• Shared service center

7. Digital processes & tools

• Business-led technology transformation of procurement function 
• Data cleanup, creation, and migration strategy and execution
• End-to-end systems and process integration 
• Solution implementation
• Partnerships with the leading solution providers and relevant point solutions.