Source To Pay Procurement A Complete Guide - 2021 Edition

This Source To Pay Procurement Guide is unlike books you're used to. If you're looking for a textbook, this is not for you. This book and its included digital components is for you who understands the importance of asking great questions. This gives you the questions to uncover the Source To Pay Procurement challenges you're facing and generate better solutions to solve those problems. Ask questions like: Does the service provider employ talent with Procurement specific skills and experience? Can your system be configured to auto receive orders based on dollar amount thresholds? How do you go about selecting the suppliers that provide the best price and overall value? How does a power-affected supply chain relationship affect the performance of the chain? Is there special technology or quality of service that your end users would pay to have? What can direct and indirect procurement learn from each other within contract management? What digital platforms does the service provider use to deliver Procurement As-a-Service? What funding sources should be used to secure debt and/or provide debt service payments? What strategies do you use to strengthen the procurement organization structure and model? What were your main sources of information when assessing alternative service providers? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you're talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. That process needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is…