How to quantify precisely what your procurement team is contributing to the enterprise

Implementation & Savings Realization

Assuring Your Sourcing Strategy Delivers Results

In a procurement transformation, savings from sourcing initiatives can add up quickly, but unless the new rates, terms and preferred suppliers are actually implemented, the results will not show on the bottom-line.

To address this, GEP’s strategic sourcing teams work closely with your suppliers and stakeholders to help ensure that the identified savings opportunities translate into actual cost reductions.

The key to realizing actual cost reductions is through a proven, ground-level implementation process that extends from the initial sourcing, right through follow-up.

Savings Realization: Process Flow

  • Getting advanced buy-in from the bottom up, and the top down
  • Requiring suppliers to provide implementation plans as part of their RFP response
  • Helping you craft internal processes and communications so that your end-users actually use the preferred suppliers
  • Assuring that the necessary knowledge and resources are fully transferred to your category owners and buyers

In addition, GEP can provide your teams with savings tracking tools and/or services to continually monitor the savings from your ongoing procurement transformation.

Related links:
Opportunity Assessment, Category Sourcing & Expertise