Designing a Procurement Service Delivery Model
Procurement organizations have evolved over the last 15 years. Many have looked for improvements through new areas of focus like automation, strategic sourcing, and category management. However, challenges remain, including unclear roles, ineffective use of technology, significant levels of rework, and poor customer service.
Find out more about ScottMadden’s approach to procurement service delivery with a tiered model.
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Aligning Business Drivers Between Finance and Procurement Making an End-to-End Procure-to-Pay a Reality
This case study reviews how ScottMadden developed an end-to-end procure-to-pay model that could accommodate the expected growth of an organization.
ScottMadden partnered with a Fortune 100 pharmaceutical company to determine how well its procure-to-pay (P2P) practices compared with those of leading organizations. ScottMadden then developed recommendations designed…
This article, the first in a series of three, shares the typical global business services (GBS) operating structures and the common implementation pitfalls.
Barcodes and other automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) technologies are ubiquitous in everyday life. They are found everywhere from grocery stores to passports because they are…
VAs can deliver scale and flexibility to allow companies better interaction with their customers and ensure more accurate information flow. Learn key elements and practical use cases…
If you’re curious to learn about inventory optimization practices and performance metrics, this report includes a summary of ScottMadden and Oniqua's survey results—some expected and some surprises.
A large, municipally owned utility sought assistance with an assessment of their supply chain function. ScottMadden was engaged by the client’s executive management team to complete the…
Energy Industry Update – A Strategic Overview
ScottMadden assisted a large Midwestern investor-owned utility to improve its supply chain organization’s strategy, governance, and operations including the supply chain organization’s relationship to the business units…
Learn more about the changes, impacts to utilities, the continuum of regulatory responses, and what it means for the supply chain in this presentation.
The changes and lessons outlined in this article will continue to have an impact as supply chains get back to work in the “next normal.”
This e-book explores how to take the P2P process, one of the end-to-end solutions often implemented first, to the next level.
Designing and implementing a new service delivery model for procurement is no small feat. This form of procurement transformation requires sophisticated project management, substantive changes to policies…
Beginning in the mid- to late-2000s, many procurement organizations evolved from a largely decentralized model to one that is more centralized and focused on strategic procurement activities.…
End-to-end processes like procure-to-pay (P2P) transcend business silos and functional boundaries. To coordinate the work of separate functions across the entire value chain, leading organizations centralize governance…
Procure-to-pay (P2P) is a value chain with many moving parts that span procurement as well as finance—which means that there are plenty of challenges that can occur…
