Simplify procurement, increase impact

Where have you come from and where do you want to go? Helping you to answer these questions and develop a solution is a vital part of an operating model. Operating models involve five key elements: strategy, organisation, processes, governance and technology. These determine which collaboration model is right for your company, as well as having a major influence on your procurement department’s self-image.

Depending on your company’s maturity level, transformation can either be carried out holistically across all elements or one step at a time. But whichever stage your company has reached, we’re here to help you find the right approach and to support you during the entire transformation, right up to implementation.

Process automation, digital transformation and the agile collaboration associated with these developments are key areas of focus for many of our clients. In most cases, this also involves selecting and implementing e-procurement systems. To support clients with this challenge, we’ve developed digital process maturity workshops, which give you the chance to review and discuss your current processes and your target processes. We provide suitable examples and best practice for each step in the process to help develop the right target vision – and to show how this vision can be implemented.

Which aspects do you want to change, and which measures will help you to achieve that change? We offer customised, end-to-end solutions for optimising procurement, covering every stage in the process: from deciding which aspects to focus on (e.g. optimising costs/processes, agile procurement), choosing the right value levers (e.g. workshops, pooling demand) and selecting tenders, right up to achieving the best possible results when negotiating on the procurement market.

Sourcing excellence covers all direct and indirect topics and commodity groups, each one supported by our negotiation experts.

Purchasing, supplier management, contract or claim management: whichever aspect of procurement you want to outsource, our managed services team is here to help. This includes negotiations with suppliers – and considers strategic, operational and tactical issues.

Why are PwC’s managed services the ideal foundation for a successful project? Because you benefit directly from our services: higher quality thanks to transparency on supplier evaluations and supplier performance, efficient end-to-end processes for optimised lead times and an optimal sourcing strategy for increased budget security. You also get the benefits of demand-driven, scalable and agile resource deployment for maximum flexibility, along with improved compliance and custom risk management services.

Spend transparency is vital for CFOs, CPOs, procurement managers and category managers. Sustainably guiding the company, optimising supply chain management and leveraging potential can only be achieved if managers have in-depth transparency on their spending.

PwC’s digital spend analytics tools are based on the latest big data technologies and are designed to create transparency – however complex the underlying systems might be. They can also identify duplicates and inconsistencies, and help you select appropriate measures to deal with these issues.

Procurement organisations of the future will only be able to meet their goals if their core processes are digitised and standardised on a global level – and this is where e-procurement platforms come into the picture. Our e-procurement experts are here to actively support you in selecting the right solution, designing the underlying processes, as well as implementing the solution and carrying out all the necessary change management activities. Once your tool is in operation, we work with you to further develop and refine it. And alongside developing the solution, you can also rely on us for planning, implementation and communication of the necessary changes. All of this has one goal: to provide you with the best possible e-procurement solution.

As well as a standard e-procurement solution, it’s also worth taking a look at our various complementary apps. These can be integrated quickly and economically into your systems, and they address specific problems: for example, automated compliance checks or assessing the sustainability of your supply chain. And these integrated solutions ultimately mean that you can respond flexibly to any additional requirements that might arise.