Specialised Procurement
Specialised Procurement focuses on those intangible performance factors that influence Procurement business unit success, whilst appearing to have no obvious impact. Consequently, these performance influential factors, are often not monitored or adequately assessed when performance is reviewed.
Specialised Procurement centres on resolving performance issues attributed to Intangible Influencer Factors (IIF’). IFF’s are non-mainstream and exemplified by all factors outside the immediate scope of the normal Procurement Cycle. These include Sustainable Procurement Intelligence, Ethics Policies, Internal Stakeholder Management and Procurement Social Responsibility etc.
IFF’s have a very real impact on long-term strategic and operational performance of both the Procurement business unit and ultimately the competitiveness of the parent organisation.
Karl Furrutter (and associates) offer bespoke Specialised Procurement counselling and solutions to clients who recognise the impact of unmonitored or poorly assessed IIFs and wish to astutely improve the integrity and performance of their Procurement business units by addressing these intangibles.
Strategic Procurement
By definition, Strategic Procurement is the management process that ensures procurement is in line with the overall corporate strategy, and is focused on long term in-depth planning and management of the procurement strategy and functionality.
Tactical Purchasing
By definition, Purchasing is the routine tactical (day to day operational) activities associated with procuring quality materiel, products and services for the organisation, and ensuring the associated administrative management activities such as delivery, expediting, compliance and payment activities are managed effectively and efficiently.
Human Capital Development
To most dynamic Procurement executives, Human Capital and Procurement have become increasingly interdependent due to the fact that the greatest cost in real terms of financial and operational performance is effective human capital.
Interim & Contract
Furrutter & Associates (Procurement) offers short and medium term Procurement resource solutions to clients that require interim management or Contingency Staffing resources. The greatest benefit of using such resources is to service targeted, unique, discreet or sensitive situations whereby a permanent role-player maybe non-advantageous, unnecessary or impossible to source at short notice or to fill extra capacity staffing needs or sudden gaps and departures.