← All skills & workflows

operations

strategic-sourcing

Guides purchasing optimization from spend visibility through supplier relationship management. For business owners, procurement managers, and operations leads who manage ongoing vendor relationships and purchasing categories.

Inputs

  • request — What to produce

How you ask

  • Run a spend analysis on our IT services category
  • Classify our top 20 suppliers using the Kraljic matrix
  • Generate an RFP for cloud hosting migration
  • Calculate TCO for switching from Vendor A to Vendor B
  • Prepare a negotiation brief for our logistics contract renewal
  • Build a quarterly supplier scorecard for our three key vendors
  • Review this SaaS contract against standard terms
  • Create a full strategic sourcing plan for our marketing services spend

Outputs

  • strategic-sourcing (markdown)
Levelbeginner
Inputconversation
Outputdocument
Setup[none]
Roles[Operations Manager]